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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS 
GOVERNING THE FREE IMPORTATION 
OF ARTICLES. 
FOR EXHIBITION AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPO- 
SITION AT CHICAGO, IN THE YEAR 1893. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 
WasuHincton, D, C., November 5, 1891. 
On April 25, 1890, the President of the United States ap- 
proved an act passed by the Congress, providing for celebrat- 
ing the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America 
by Columbus, which act contains the following preamble: 
‘WHEREAS, Itis fitand appropriate that the four hundredth 
anniversary of the discovery of America be commemorated by | 
an exhibition of the resources of the United States of America, 
their development, and of the progress of civilization in the 
new world; and, 
‘*WHEREAS, Such an exhibition should be of a national 
and international character, so that not only the people of 
our Union and this continent, but those of all nations as well, 
can participate, and should therefore have the sanction of the 
Congress of the United States.” 
And Section 11 of said act is as follows: 
‘¢ That all articles which shall be imported from foreign 
countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said Exposi- 
tion, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall 
be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees or char- 
ges, under such regulation 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 Exposition, 
any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition 
in the Exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such 
regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collec- 
tion of the import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall prescribe: provided, That all such articles, when sold or 
