Volume 22
Public Law 47–73
to admit free of duty articles intended for exhibition at the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held in the city of Denver, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two
Approved April 7, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to admit free of duty articles intended for exhibition at the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held in the city of Denver, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section one.—That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the National Mining and Industrial Exposition to be held in the city of Denver, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be admitted without the payment of duty or custom fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. Provided, That all
Provisos.
such articles as shall be sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed upon like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation. And provided further, That in case any articles imported under provisions of this act, shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required
Penalty for violation of act, etc.
by law, all the penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.
Approved, April 7, 1882.