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 474 FIFTY-FOURTH CON GBESS. Sess. I. RES. 53, 55. 1896. by the several nations, and space for installing foreign exhibits has been applied for and duly apportioned, and concessions and privileges granted by the exposition management to the citizens and subjects of foreign nations; and Whereas for the purpose of securing the production upon the expositicn grounds of scenes illustrative of the architecture, dress, habits, aud modes of life, occupation, industries, means of locomotion and transportution, amusemeuts, entertainments, and so forth, of the natives of foreign countries, it has been necessary for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company to grant concessions and privileges to certain tirms and corporations conceding the right to make such productions: Therefore Resolve:} by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States m:'l¢I_·;x¤•¤•:i°£¤••¤· of America in Gongresa aesemblcd, That; the Act of Congress approved Aammw or wu. February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and e1gl1ty-five, prohibiting g“°‘¤;}u°g{f;8bY *°" the importation of foreigners under contract to perform labor, and the 9`¤iz:a,p.a¤:>Q Acts of Congress prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons into the United States, and the Acts ameudatory of these Acts, shall not be so construed, nor shall anything therein operate to prevent, hinder, or in auywise restrict any foreign exhibitor, 1epresenmtive, 01- citizen of a foreign nation, or the holder, who is a citizen of a foreigu nation, of any concession or privilege from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company of Nashville, Tennessee, from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agent.s, or other employees, A natives of their respective foreign countries, as they, er any of them, may deem necessary fortlm purpose of making preparatmns for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing for installing or com · ducting any business authorized or Wmitted under or byevirtuo of br pettsining to any concession or privr ego which may have en granted by the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company of Nashville, Ten- PP’•*°‘!¤· IIB8B6G, in connection with such exposition: Provided, however, That no alien shall by virtue of this Act enter the United States under contract to perform labor except by express permission, naming such alien, of the Secretary of the Treasury; and any such alien who may remain in the United States for more than one year, after the close of said exposition, shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties applicable to aliens coming in violation of the aliemcontract-labor law aforesaid. fo}“;j{§1i°*g§g‘{,:f"‘*°’°' Sec. 2. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of pay— ment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any S""- time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close of the expoeitiou, any goods or property imported ibn- and actually on exhibition iii the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject  such regula- _ tions for the security of the revenue and for the collection of 1mpm·t I§’lj';;jf;·“mcl°”s0l_,_ duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the revenue laws in force an the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articies and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale 01- wimhe rawal. Approved, May 18, 1896. May 21.1806. [N0. 55.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to deliver cou- · demned cannon to Chamberlain Post, Grand Army of the Republic, to be posted by the soldiers’ monument at Saint J clmsbury, Vermont. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representires of the United States 0¤¤¤1¤m¤¤<1c¤¤¤·>¤· oj`America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to Chamberlain