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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · August 22, 1912 · Chapter 334

Chapter 334. To provide for the entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries

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CHAP. 334.— An Act To provide for the entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries.August 22, 1912.[[H. R. 25806](/us/bill/62/hr/25806).][[Public, No. 289](/us/pl/62/289).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange.All articles imported solely for exhibition at, admitted under bond free of duty.Vol. 36, p. 1357. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at expositions of the arts, sciences, and industries and products of the soil, mine, and sea, to be held in expositions to be held by the Merchants and 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 prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any timeSales for delivery at close. during the exposition to sell, for delivery at the close thereof, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buddings, 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as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: *Provided*, That all such articles, when*Provisos*.Duty on articles withdrawn. sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of 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 section contained shall be construed as an invitation,No implication of invitation to exhibition. 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.
Approved, August 22, 1912.
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