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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 301. 1894. · 42] hundred and ninety-five, and for the employment of proper persons as otiicers and assistants by the board of management hereinafter created, and for the maintenance of the building hereinafter provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to the Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of the board of management and by the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized accounts and vouchers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of management, of which not exceeding ten thousand dollars shall be expended for clerical services. And to secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of said Govern- m£,‘f““ °‘ '“*“"f4°· ment exhibit a board of management shall be created, to be charged ' with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may respectively decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall be composed of one member to be detailed by the Cumposmou. head of each Executive Department, one by the head of the Smith- . sonian Institution and National Museum, and one by the head of the United States Fish Commission, and the President shall name one of said members as chairman. But the United States shall not in any manner nor under any circum- U§Q‘;‘(fi’§Q;f_fg’ °f ‘**° stances be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or represen-, tations of the said Cotton States and International Exposition organized under the laws of the Stateof Georgia, itsofficers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for the service, salaries, labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any certificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said corporation, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses incidental to the _ exposition; Provided, however, That all articles which shall be imported §fg§';';j}y of mi from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said expo- cm for nxmbmou. sition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful. at any time during the exhibition to sell for delivery at the $“‘°°· close of the exposition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulation for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and ' all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United S0}Q“*Y °° “"i°*°° States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article ' by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and entorced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: And provided further, That medals with appropriate devices, $*6*;,***** *° b° P’°· emblems,and inscriptions commemorative of said Cotton States and P ` International 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 fifty-second section of the coinage Act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the K?§_?;;§jgj,p_702_ payment of a sum not less than the cost 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 Section._ ‘ , For taking down the Government main building erected for the GoV— ,,,g'°,Q°’§§§§§;0°}‘§‘fg BYU ment exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and its tl‘2mSp0I‘t8·· ¤¤=r bv removedtion, or so much of the material thereof as may be available, and its re- · erection upon the site selected for the said Cotton States and International Exposition, including the purchase of such new material as may be found necessary, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be