Chapter 195. To allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes
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CHAP. 195.— An Act To allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes.May 18, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That whenever any article or Foreign expositions. Return of articles exhibited, duty free. articles or live stock shall be sent out of the United States for temporary use or exhibition at any public exposition, fair, or conference, held in a foreign country, such articles shall be entitled to be returned to the United States, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, without the payment of customs duty, whether they shall be of domestic or of foreign production: *Provided,**Proviso.* Proof of payment of tax.
That the articles of foreign production have once paid duty in the United States and no drawback has been allowed thereon, and if any domestic articles are subject to internal-revenue tax, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded. Approved, May 18, 1896.