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 482 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99, 100. 1883. sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption therein, at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if amy, imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in force ut the date of im- Prorim. portationz And provided further, That in ease any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles, and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrnwal or sale. ` M¤da1s,¤w. Sec. 2. That medals, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions, commemorative of said Southern Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the United States, for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of the fiftysecond section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the payment of a sum not less than the costa thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States, shall apply to the medals struck and issued under this act. Permission for Sec. 3. That with the approval of the director of the National Mu- ¤*¤¤°V¤l of ¤P°°*· seum, any portion of the collections thereof may be exhibited at said ‘£§:;*l°§;;';§N” Southern Exposition permission to remove the same from the National . p,.,,;,,,_Museum being hereby gra,nted: Provided That said removal can be made without loss or expense to the government. And, upon the same conditions, permission is also granted for the exhibition of articles iu charge of other bureaus and departments of the government. Secretary or Sec. 4. That upon the passage of this act the Secretary of State shall $*8*8 *0 ¤<>¤ii’Y Um notify the consuls, con nlar agents, and other representatives of our gov- hzffjg 2} ernment in foreign countries of the time and place of holding said South- ,,xP0,m,,,,’,,m_g ern E§p§gition, gag;  the fact tbz1Q all articles intended thereor wi admi 0 uty, as providerein. Approved, March 3, 1883. xu. 3 lm (2H4P. 100.-A.n act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri ._Y. River at some mcesmble pomt within ten miles below and live miles above the city of Kansas City, Missouri Ba it enacted by the Sonata and House of Representatives of the United gg,-g,;;,.,,,,,,,;;,,, 8fGIG$QfAMGf‘0U€I Congress assembled, That the Chillicothe and Kansas Missouri River  City Railway Company, :1 porporation organized under the laws of the ‘£:£:°&*t';°R•£l  Stone of   be, and IS hereby, authorized to construct and main- 'ay compa, m_ tam abndge and approaches thereto over the Missouri River, at some m,,-;,,,.; to wu. accessible point consistent with the interests of the river navigation withsu-uct. in five miles above and ten miles below the present railroad bridge across said river, at the city of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri. Said bridge shall be con tracted to provide for the passage of railway trains, and, at the option of the corporation by which it may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot-passengers, for such reasonable ;·:£=>s of toll as may be approved from time to time by the Secretary 0 ar. Declared a law- Sec. 2. That any bridge·built under this act and subject to its limif¤1 structure, wd tations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known " ¥‘°°*"'°“*°· as a postroute, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission oyer the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of wm of the United States, or for passengers and freight passing over said budge than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroad or public highways leading to the said bridge; and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-roads in the United States. gpm,  Sec. 3. That if said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, the spans thereof shall not be less than three hundred