ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLIX 



Sec. 2. 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 payment 

 of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such reguiation as the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time 

 during the exhibition to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods 

 or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exhibition 

 building, or on the grounds, subject to such regulation 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 sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall be sub- 

 ject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the revenue laws 

 in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law 

 shall be applied and enforced against the persons who may be guilty 

 of any illegal sale or withdrawal. 



Sec. 3. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, *rom its Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the United States Fish Commission, and the 

 National Museum, such articles and material as illustrate the function 

 and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace, and 

 its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the nature of our 

 institutions and their adaptions to the wants of the people; and to 

 secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of such Government 

 exhibit a board shall be created, to be charged with the selection, prep- 

 aration, arrangement, safe keeping, and exhibition of such articles and 

 materials as the heads of the several Departments and the directors of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum may respectively 

 decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President 

 may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall 

 be composed of one person to be named by the head of each Executive 

 Department and Museum and by the President of the United States. 

 The President shall name the chairman of said board, and the board 

 itself shall select such other officers as it may deem necessary. 



Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the trans- 

 mississippi and international exposition for the Government exhibits, 

 and he is hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, in the 

 same manner and under the same regulations as for other public 

 buildings of the United States; but the contract for said building 

 or buildings shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. The 

 Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to dispose of such 

 building or buildings, or the material composing the same, at the close 

 of the exposition, giving preference to the city of Omaha, or to the said 

 Transmississippi and International Exposition Association, to purchase 

 the same at an appraised value to be ascertained ;iu such manner as may 

 be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

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