Chapter 454. Amending the Act entitled “An Act to allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes,” approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 454.— An Act Amending the Act entitled “An Act to allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes,” approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. March 3, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Return, duty free, of animals taken abroad for exhibition with circuses, etc.Vol. 29, p. 122. That the Act entitled “An Act to allow the return free of duty of certain articles exported from the United States for exhibition purposes,” approved May eighteenth; eighteen hundred and ninety six, is hereby amended so as to include in the privilege of free entry conferred thereby wild and other animals of foreign origin taken abroad temporarily for exhibition in connection with any circus or menagerie, subject, however, to the conditions and *Proviso.*Inventories, etc.limitations prescribed in said Act: *Provided, however,* That the provision of this amendment shall apply only in such cases as those of foreign-born animals taken abroad, and inventories of which are tiled prior to their leaving the country with the collector of customs at the port of their departure.
Approved, March 3, 1899.