ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLVII 



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 That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the 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 i^rescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against 

 such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal 

 sale or withdrawal. 



Sec. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions commemorative of said Tennessee Centennial Exposition and of 

 the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be i^repared at some mint 

 of the United States for the board of directors thereof, subject to the 

 provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-three, ui^on the payment by the Tennessee Centen- 

 nial Exposition Company of a sum not less than the cost thereof; aud 

 all the ijrovisions whether penal or otherwise of said coinage act against 

 the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply 

 to the medals struck and issued under this act. 



Sec. 6. That the United States shall iu no manner and under no 

 circumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, 

 expense, or liability of any kind whatever of the said Tennessee Cen- 

 tennial Exposition Company, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, 

 or incident to or growing out of said exj)osition, nor for any amount 

 whatever in excess of the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars 

 heiein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution and iS^ational Museum, and United States Fish 

 Commission, and the board of management herein authorized, their 

 officers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no manner and under no 

 circumstances expend or create any liability of any kind for any sum in 

 excess of the appropriations herein made, or create any deficiency. 



Sec. 7. That the appropriation herein made shall take effect when 

 the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the solvent appro- 

 priations made by the State of Tenrfessee, its counties and cities, and 

 by individuals or companies to said centennial exposition, together with 

 solvent subscriptions to the stock of the Centennial Company made by 

 the State, its counties and cities, and by private corporations, and by 

 individuals shall amount to at least the sum of one-half million dollars. 



Approved, December 22, 1890. 



