Chapter XXIX. to provide for the Admission of Paintings, Statury, and Photographs for Exhibition free of Duty
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CHAP. XXIX.— An Act to provide for the Admission of Paintings, Statury, and Photographs for Exhibition free of Duty.March 5, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCertain paintings, &c., to be admitted free of duty. all paintings, staturary, and photographic pictures imported into the United States for exhibition by any association duly authorized under the laws of the United States or any State for the promotion and encouragement of science, art, or industry, and not intended for sale, shall be admitted free of duty, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided,*Bonds for payment of duties, &c.
That bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as are now imposed by law upon any and all of such articles as shall not be reexported within six mouths after such importation. Approved, March 5, 1872.