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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · June 28, 1882 · Chapter 253

Chapter 253. to admit free of duty articles intended for the exhibition of art and industry to be held at Boston, Massachusetts, during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three

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CHAP. 253.— An Act to admit free of duty articles intended for the exhibition of art and industry to be held at Boston, Massachusetts, during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three.June 28, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Articles imported for exhibition of art and industry, to be held at Boston, 1883, to be free of duty. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at. the exhibition of art and industry to be held at the city of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be admitted without the payment of duty or of custom fees or charges, under such regulations*Proviso*. as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption therein, at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in 117 force at the date of importation: *And provided further*, That in case*Proviso*. any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all the penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Sec 2.— That the entire stock of each exhibitor, consisting of goods, wares, and merchandise imported by him and which may be in said buildings is hereby declared liable for the payment of duties accruing on any portion thereof, in case of the removal of such portion from said buildings without payment of the lawful duties thereon. Sec. 3.— That the penalties prescribed by, and the provisions contained[R. S. 3083, 591](/us/rs/t/s3083/591) in, section three thousand and eighty-two of the Revised Statutes, shall he deemed and held to apply in the case of any goods, wares or merchandise which may be in said buildings sold, delivered, or removed without payment of duties? in the same manner as if such goods, wares, or merchandise had been imported contrary to law; and the article or articles so sold, delivered, or removed, shall be deemed and held to have been so imported, with the knowledge of the parties respectively concerned in such sale, delivery or removal.
Approved, June 28, 1882.
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