Chapter 274.
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CHAP. 274.— AN ACT To provide for the entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries. March 4, 1911.[[H.R. 30281](/us/bill/36/hr/30281).][[Public, No. 514](/us/bill/36/pl/514).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un ited States of America in Congress assembled*, That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countriesMerchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.for the sole purpose of exhibition at expositions of the arts, sciences, and All articles imported solely for exhibition at, admitted under bond free of duty.industries and products of the soil, mine, and sea, to be held in expositions to be held in nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve by the Merchants1358and Manufacturers’ Exchange of New York, in the buildings in the city of New York owned or controlled by the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of the payment of such duty, customs, fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribeSales for delivery at close.; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell, for delivery at the close thereof, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: *Provided,**Provisos.*That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the dutyDuty on articles withdrawn., if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use: and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: *Provided further,* That nothing in this sectionNo implication of invitation to exhibition.contained shall be construed as an invitation, express or implied, from the Government of the United States to any foreign government, state, municipality, corporation, partnership, or individual to import any such articles for the purpose of exhibition at the said exposition.
Sec.2.That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend the timeExtension of time.of the expositions for a period not exceeding six months after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve. Approved, March 4, 1911.