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 478 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1. 1896. of the exposition, giving preference to the city of Nashville or to the said Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company to purchase the same at an appraised value, to be ascertained in such manner as he may P¤*4••'*•- determine, and whatever sum may be realized on sale of said building shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. °x$g*;P'****°° ‘°’ Sec. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, ` purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of - said Government exhibit, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants by the board of management created by this Act and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building hereinbefore 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, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hnndre thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of management hereinbefore created, of which not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be expended for clerical service. dom :_';f,{,g‘mf'“‘ Sec. 4. That all articles which shall be imported trom foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tarid 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 exposition, any 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 import -  umu. duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That ng, " c all auch  when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, i any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation,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shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawn . N$m:·$t l>• Pm- Sec. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- ` tions commemorative of said Tennessee Centennial 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, subiect to the gv; 1Y·1>·34ggi m provisions of the i‘lfty-second section of the coinage Act of eighteen ' "'°°` "‘hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment by the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company 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 Act. U5°,§d“’é",;*gf °* “*¤ Sec. 6. That the United States shall in no manner and under no ` circumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense or liability of any kind whatever of the said Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company, its ofllcers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said exposition, nor for any amount _ whatever in excess of the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars °¤C°”*· herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, and the board of management herein authorized, their officers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no manner and under no circumstances expend or create any liability of any kind for any sum in excess of the appropriations herein made, or create any deficiency. 4*•“e¤¤*! vf •i·- Sec. 7. That the appropriation herein made shall take enect when mmfthe Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the solvent appropriations made by the State of Tennessee, its counties and cities, and by individuals or companies to said centennial exposition, together with solvent subscriptions to the stock of the Centennial Company