Chapter 99.
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CHAP. 99.— An act relative to the Southern Exposition to be held in the city of Louisville, State of Kentucky, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. Mar. 3, 1883 Whereas, ample means have been provided for the holding, during theSouthern Exposition, Louisville, Ky.Preamble. present year, in the city of Louisville, State of Kentucky, of an exposition of the products of agriculture, manufactures, and the line arts; and Whereas the objects of such an exposition should commend themselves to Congress, and its success should be promoted by all reasonable encouragement, provided it can be done without expense to the general public:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all articles which shall beArticles imported for exhibition to be free of duty, etc. imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Southern Exposition at Louisville, Kentucky, “to be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, shall be admitted without the payment of duty, or of customs fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided,* That all such articles as shall be*Proviso*. 482 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 99, 100. 1883. sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption therein, at any lime after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in force at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 importation :*Proviso*. *And provided further,* That in case any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles, and again the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Sec. 2. Medals, etc. That medals, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions, commemorative of said Southern Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the United States, for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the payment of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States, shall apply to the medals struck and issued under this act.
Sec. 3. Permission for removal of specimens, etc., from National Museum.*Proviso*. That with the approval of the director of the National Museum, any portion of the collections thereof may be exhibited at said Southern Exposition, permission to remove the same from the National Museum being hereby granted : *Provided,* That said removal can be made without loss or expense to the government. And, upon the same conditions, permission is also granted for the exhibition of articles in charge of other bureaus and departments of the government.
Sec. 4. Secretary of State to notify the consuls, etc., of time and holding of exposition, etc. That upon the passage of this act the Secretary of State shall notify the consuls, consular agents, and other representatives of our government in foreign countries of the time and place of bolding said Southern Exposition, together with the fact that all articles intended therefor will be admitted free of duty, as provided herein. Approved, March 3, 1883.