Volume 21
Public Law 46–14
to authorize the importation of articles for exhibition at the Millers' International Exhibition to be held at Cincinnati in eighteen hundred and eighty, free of duty.
Approved January 24, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the importation of articles for exhibition at the Millers' International Exhibition to be held at Cincinnati in eighteen hundred and eighty, free of duty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Millers’ International Exhibition to beheld in the city of Cincinnati in the year eighteen hundred and eighty shall be admitted without the payment of duty or of custom fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation:
Proviso.
And provided further, That in case any article imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all the penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the person who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Approved, January 24, 1880.