Chapter 20. To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the Portland Universal Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, from the payment of duties
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CHAP. 20.— An Act To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the Portland Universal Exposition, at Portland, Oregon, from the payment of duties.January 8, 1895. Whereas there will be held in the city of Portland, and county ofPreamble. Multnomah, State of Oregon, from and after December first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, an exposition to be known as the Portland Universal Exposition, in which foreign nations and foreign exhibitors have been invited and have agreed to participate:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the, United States of America in Congress assembled*,Portland Universal Exhibition.Articles for exhibition admitted free. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; aArticles transferred from other fairs.nd all articles which have been imported from foreign countries and which have been on exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, or which have been on exhibition at the California Midwinter International Exposition, or at the Interstate Fair at Tacoma, Washington, upon which there is a tariff or customs duty and which have been heretofore admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be transferred to the city of Portland, in the State of Oregon, for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition.
Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful at any time during such exposition toSales. sell for delivery at the close of the exposition any of the goods or property imported for, and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of *Proviso*.Payment of duties.the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of sale; and all penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced and applied against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal thereof.
Sec. 3. That all of the provisions of public resolution numbered thirty,Admission of contract laborers, etc.Vol. 27, p. 402. entitled “Joint Resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits,” approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, are hereby extended to and made applicable to said Portland Universal Exposition to the same extent as if said exposition was therein specifically named.
Approved, January 8, 1895. Chapter 21: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of n bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the city of Jefferson, Missouri,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Chapter 21 28 Stat. 601 1895-01-08 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2026-02-15 53 3 public FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 21, 23. 1895.601
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