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 566 FIBTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 1817, 1818. 1904. for other purposes," is hereby amended so as to authorize the issuance of bonds by school districts in Oklahoma Territory having a bona fide population of not less than five thousand persons fO1‘ erecting necessary school buildings and purchasing the ground for same. The limitations of said Act of Ju y thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- six, shall not apply to such school districts: P0·0m°ded, That before ' any bond shall be issued the mayor and common council of the municipal corporation composing in whole or in part such school district shall cause an election to be held in such district, and said mayor and common council shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general N°““°““°“· circulation published in said distr1ct a notice of the time and place or ' _ places of holding such election. Such notice shall be given at least °““““°°'°"°" thirty days before such election. On the question of the issuance of said bonds, no person shall be qualified to vote unless he be in all _ respects a qualified elector and owner of real or personal property q¤'§}'0‘gf""“' '°"’ '°‘ sub]ect to taxation within the school district. In case two—thirds of the qualified voters as above described shall vote affirmativelly for - the issuance of said bonds, then the mayor and common counci shall certify the result to the board of education, and said board shall issue S*¤¤¤K *¤¤d· ‘ the same, and not otherwise. Said bonds shall contain-all necessary . _ provisions as to form, and such school district shall provide a proper I¤*°¤**‘ *¤°*°•¤°**- sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds. Sai bonds shall not bear a rate of interest exceeding six per centum, and the interest shall be paid semiannually, and none of the said bonds shall be sold at less ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ me- than their par value: Pr0vided_fw·t}ze2~, That no school district under this Act shall issue bonds in excess of six per centum of the valuation alccording to the last preceding assessment of the school district issuing t e same. Approved, April 28, 1904. Agrlkzihly- CHAP. 1§18.—An Act Amending anAct approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary [Public, No. 250.] of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the U nited States, by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea, in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of 11ss0uri." Be it enacted by the Senate and Houozéélzf Representa#i*ve.s of the United E,{‘,f’,§‘,],§l‘},§‘f‘ P“’°"““° States of America in Oongresa acsembl, That section ten of the Act cgrnxgrygm g¤;{¤y·i•¤ approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act to Veil ni, p. ll42, provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversar of the purchase ‘”‘°""°“· of the Louisiana territory by the United States by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and sea, in the city of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: S¤'¤•>'°*'¤'bi*~°· “Sec. 10. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole pur se of exhibition at said exposition, upon which there shall be a tarigo or customs duty, shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to se 1, for delivery at the close thereof, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition building or on the grounds, sub`ect to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as ,§ggi‘fj; be mmm the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: [)I’0I‘?.d¢’CZ. That all such cmamqrwimnmwui. articles, when sold or withdrawn for consum tion in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposedp upon such articles bv the “,*‘5:§§,§j’°"**'“*”*¤¤· revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental hand-