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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · April 15, 1890 · Chapter 82

Chapter 82. to admit free of duty articles intended for the Saint Louis Exposition in eighteen hundred and ninety which may be imported from the Republic of Mexico and other American Republics and the Dominion of Canada

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CHAP. 82.— An Act to admit free of duty articles intended for the Saint Louis Exposition in eighteen hundred and ninety which may be imported from the Republic of Mexico and other American Republics and the Dominion of Canada.April 15, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,St. Louis Exposition.Articles imported for. from Mexico, Canada, etc., to be free of duty, etc. That all articles which shall be imported from the Republic of Mexico, and other American Republics and the Dominion of Canada, being the growth or product thereof, for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Saint Louis Exposition, to be held in the city of Saint Louis during September and October in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be admitted without the payment of duty or customs 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shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or*Provisos*.If sold or withdrawn, etc.,subject to duty. withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation shall be subject to the duties, if any imposed on the like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of the importation: *And provided further*, That in case any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption or shall be sold without payment of duty, as required by law, all the penalties prescribedEnforcement of penalties. by the re venue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal for sale.
Approved, April 15, 1890.
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