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 PUBLIC ACTS CF THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the jlrst session which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of August, 1893, and was adjourned without day on Friday, the third day of November, 1893. Gnovmn CLEVELAND, President; ADLAI E. SrnvnusoN,Vice-President, and President — of the Senate; ISHAM G.HARB1s, President pro tempore of the Senate; CHARLES F. Cmsr was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on the seventh day of August, 1893. · CHAP. 1.-An Act In aid of the California Midwinter International Exposition. September 1, ]m_ Whereas there will be held in the city and county of San Francisco, rmmtrs. State of California, from and after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-tour, an exposition to be known as the California Midwinter International Exposition, in which foreign nations and foreign exhibitors have been invited and have agreed to participate: Therefore, Be it enacted ln; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all articles which shall osrmmns mebe imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition $tig*°'¤***°¤*‘ at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariif or customs duty, A,,,,,,,,, `f,,,_ to b,, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, ¤<\¤¤i¢¢¤d duty fmunder such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and all articles which have been imported from foreign countries and which are now on exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, upon which there is a tariff or customs duty, and R¤¤¤¤v¤1¤f¤¤hibl¤• which have been heretofore admitted free of payment of duty, customs °° °m°"° M" fees,`or charges, may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be removed to the city of San Francisco, in the State of California, for the sole purpose of exhibition at said California Midwinter International Exposition. Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful at any time during such exposition to M, sell for delivery at the close of the exposition any of the goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of the import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when mms. sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws payment of sms., in force at the date of the importation; and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal thereof. Sec. 3. That all of the provisions of public resolution numbered Femgn N¤>r•¤ thirty, entitled “Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the pmm ‘ World’s Columbian Exposition to bring to this comrtry foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits," approved August fifth, eighteen hundred mid "¤¤·¤·P·4<¤- ninety-two, are hereby extended to and made applicable to said Cahfornia Midwinter International Exposition to the same extent as if said Califzoirnia Midwinter International Exposition was therein specifically nam. Approved, September 1, 1893. m STAT-VOL xxvru-—-1