Chapter 98.
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CHAP. 98.— An act to admit free of duty articles intended for the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held at Denver, in the State of Colorado, during the year 1883. Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Admission of articles for National Mining and Industrial Exposition, Denver, duty free. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held at the City of Denver, in the state of Colorado, 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 as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided,* That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or*Proviso*. withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of the importation; *Provided further, **Proviso*.That in case any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all the penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shallPenalties to apply, when. he applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Approved, March 3, 1883.