ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OP CONGRESS. LY 



Whereas the legislature of the State of New York has, by unanimous 

 vote, memorialized Congress to encourage the holding of said Pan- 

 American Exposition; and 



Whereas the proposed exposition, being confined in its scope to the 

 Western Hemisphere, would unquestionably be of vast benefit to the 

 commercial interests of the countries of North, South, and Central 

 America : Therefore, 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the proposed Pan-American 

 Exposition to be held on Cayuga Island, between the cities of Buffalo 

 and Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, in the year nineteen 

 hundred and one, merits the encouragement and approval of Congress 

 and of the people of the United States. 



Sec. 2. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 

 tries for the purpose of exhibition at said exposition shall be admitted 

 free of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful during 

 said exposition to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or 

 property imported and actually on exhibition therein, subject to such 

 regulations for the security of the revenue as the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when sold 

 or withdrawn for consumption shall be subject to the duty, if any, 

 imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of 

 their importation and to the terms of the tariff laws in force at that 

 time: And provided further, That all necessary expenses incurred, 

 including salaries of customs officials in charge of imported articles, 

 shall be paid to the Treasury of the United States by the Pan- 

 American Exposition Company, under regulations to be prescribed by 

 the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 3. That in the passage of this joint resolution the United States 

 does not assume any liability of any kind whatever, and does not 

 become responsible in any manner for any bond, debt, contract, expend- 

 iture, expense, or liability of the said exposition company, its officers, 

 agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said 

 exposition. (Approved, July 8, 1898; Statutes of 1897-98, p. 752.) 



