1804 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Ohio Centennial Company to purchase the same at an appraised value, 
to be ascertained in such manner as the President and Secretary of the — 
Treasury may determine; and whatever sum may be so realized shall - 
be covered into the Treasury of the United States. 
Src. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, 
purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of 
said Government exhihit, and for the employment of proper persons as 
officers and assistants by the board of management created by this Act 
and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building herein- 
before provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to the 
Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of the board of 
management, or, in the event of his absence or disability, by such other 
officer as the board may designate, upon itemized accounts and vouch-- 
ers, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof 
as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of management 
hereinbefore created, of which not exceeding the sum of $10,000 shall - 
be expended for clerical service: Provided, That no liability against 
the Government shall be incurred and no expenditure of money under 
this act shall be made until the officers of said exposition shall have 
furnished the Secretary of the Treasury proofs to his satisfaction that 
there has been obtained by said exposition corporation subscriptions 
of stock in good faith, contributions, donations, or appropriations 
from all sources for the purpose of said exposition, a sum aggregating 
not less than $500,000, nor until the State of Ohio shall by legislative 
enactment have appropriated a sum of money equal to that herein 
appropriated. 
Src. 4. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 
tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition 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 regulations as the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any 
time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close of the expo- 
sition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition 
in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regula- 
tions 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 
articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and 
all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against 
such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal 
sale or withdrawal: And provided further, That all necessary expenses 
incurred in carrying out the provisions of this section, including: sal- 
aries of customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid 
