1844 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
whatever attending such corporation or accruing by reason of the 
same, other than are in this act provided. 
Sec. 6. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to create 
any liability of the United States, direct or indirect, for any debts 
or obligations incurred, nor for any claim for aid or pecuniary assist- 
ance from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support 
or liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said board of 
trustees of the Philadelphia Museums or the Philadelphia Exposition 
Association in excess of the sums herein appropriated. 
(Stat., XXX, 768.) 
March 1, 1899. 
Joint resolution. 
Resolved, etc., That the act of Congress approved February 26, 1885, 
prohibiting the importation of foreigners under contract to perform 
labor, and the acts of Congress prohibiting the coming of Chinese per- 
sons into the United States, and the acts amendatory of these acts, 
shall not be constrtied, nor shall anything therein operate to prevent, 
hinder, or in anywise restrict any foreign exhibitor, representative, 
or citizen of a foreign nation, or the holder who is a citizen of a for- 
eign nation of any concession or privilege from the Philadelphia Expo- 
sition Association of Pennsylvania from bringing into the United 
States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other 
employees, natives of their respective foreign countries, as they or any 
of them may deem necessary for the purpose of making preparations 
for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing or installing 
or conducting any business authorized or permitted under or by virtue 
of or pertaining to any concession or privilege which may have been 
granted by the Philadelphia Exposition Association of Pennsylvania in 
connection with such exposition: Provided, however, That no alien 
shall by virtue of this act enter the United States under contract to 
perform labor except by express permission, naming such alien, of the 
Secretary of the Treasury; and any such alien who may remain in the 
United States for more than three months after the close of the expo- 
sition shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties 
applicable to aliens coming in violation of the alien contract-labor law 
aforesaid. 
(Stat., XXX, 1390.) 
