1790 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
authorized or permitted by virtue of any concession or privilege 
which may have been or may hereafter be granted by the Transmis- 
sissippi and International Exposition Company of Omaha, Nebraska, 
in connection with such exposition. Nor shall any such act or acts 
of Congress operate to prevent, hinder, or in any manner restrict any 
foreign exhibitor, representative, or citizen of a foreign nation, or 
holder of a concession or privilege from the Transmississippi and 
International Exposition Company, from bringing into the United 
States under contract any such mechanic, artisan, agent, or other 
employee deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury for the 
purpose of making preparations for installing or conducting foreign 
exhibits, or preparing for installing or conducting any business author- 
ized or permitted under, or by virtue of, or pertaining to a conces- 
sion or privilege which may have been or may be granted by the said 
Transmississippi and International Exposition Company in connection 
with such exposition: Provided, however, That no alien shall, by vir- 
tue of this resolution, be permitted to enter the United States to per- 
form labor therein, except by express permission, naming such alien, 
and then not for a longer time than three months after the close of the 
Transmississippi and International Exposition; and thereafter such 
person shall be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to 
aliens coming into the United States in violation of any act of Con- 
gress prohibiting alien contract labor from being brought or coming 
into the United States. 
Src. 2. That all-articles and property of any kind that may be 
brought to the United States from any foreign country to be placed 
on exhibition at such Transmississippi and International Exposition, as 
well as all tools and implements necessary or proper to be used in pre- 
paring for an exhibition and the equipment and paraphernalia of the 
exhibitors, artisans, laborers, and the like shall be admitted to the 
ports of the United States free of duty, under such rules and regula- 
tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Pro- 
vided, however, That said articles shall be removed from the United 
States within six months after the close of said exposition. If not so 
removed, and the same shall be sold or disposed of in the United States, 
they shall be subject to the customs laws thereof: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed 
to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary, in his judg- 
ment, to carry into execution the provisions hereof and to prohibit the 
infraction of existing statutes, except as the same may be temporarily 
modified and changed by this resolution. 
(Stat., XXX, 222.) 
December 18, 1897. 
Resolwed, ctc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is 
hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed and com- | 
