Chapter 201. To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the interstate fair at Tacoma, Washington, from the payment of duties
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CHAP. 201.— An Act To exempt the articles of foreign exhibitors at the interstate fair at Tacoma, Washington, from the payment of duties.August 3, 1894. Whereas there will be held in the city of Tacoma, and county ofPreamble Pierce, State of Washington, from and after August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, an exposition to be known as the Interstate Fair, 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 UnitedInterstate Fair, Tacoma, Wash.Transfer of certain articles for exhibition free of duty.
States of America in Congress assembled*, 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; and all articles which have been imported from foreign countries and Vol. 26, p. 64.*Ante*, p 1,which have been on exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, or which are now or have been on exhibition at the California Midwinter International Exposition at San Francisco, 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 Tacoma, in the State of Washington, for the sole purpose of exhibition at said interstate fair.
Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful at any time during such expositionSales. to 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Secretary *Proviso*.Payment of duties.of the Treasury shall prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of sale; and all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 ail of the provisions of public resolution numberedForeign laborers permitted. thirty, entitled “Joint Resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the 225 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 andVol. 27, p. 402. ninety-two, are hereby extended to and made applicable to said interstate fair, to the same extent as if said interstate fair was therein specifically named.
Approved, August 3, 1894.