1752 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Central and South American Governments, and other States of the 
world should participate, and should, therefore, have the sanction of 
the Congress of the United States; and 
Whereas it is desirable and will be highly beneficial to bring together 
at such an exhibition, to be held at a central position in the western 
part of the United States, the people of the United States and other 
States of this continent; and 
Whereas the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Asso- 
ciation has undertaken to hold such exposition, beginning on the 1st 
day of June, 1898, and closing on the 1st day of November, 1898: 
Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That a trans-Mississippi and international expo- 
sition shall be held at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in 
the year 1898, under the auspices of the Trans-Mississippi and Inter- 
national Exposition Association: Provided, That the United States 
shall not be liable for any of the expense attending or incident to such 
exposition, nor by reason of the same. 
Sec. 2. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 
tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exhibition upon which 
there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of pay- 
ment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulation as the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at amy 
time during the exhibition to sell for delivery at the close thereof 
any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the 
exhibition building, or on the grounds, subject to such regulation for 
the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such 
articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States 
shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the 
revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties 
prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against the persons 
who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal. 
Src. 3. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Gov- 
ernment of the United States, from its Executive Departments, the 
Smithsonian Institution, the United States Fish Commission, and 
the National Museum, such articles and material as illustrate the fune- 
tion and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace, 
and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the nature of 
our institutions and their adaptations to the wants of the people; and 
to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of such Government 
exhibit a board shall be created, to be charged with the selection, prep- 
aration, arrangement, safe-keeping, and exhibition of such articles 
and materials as the heads of the several Departments and the directors 
of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum may respectively 
decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President 
