4].4 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 42-44. 1883. tion of the same setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open, and the place at which it will be held, and such board of management shall immmunicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations copies of the same and a copy of this act, together with such regula- ` tions as may be adopted by said board of management, for publication in their respective countries. Invir=~ti¤¤¤ to Sec. 9. That the President be requested to send, in the name of the ¤‘;1"°'“’?’°“°" °f United States, invitations to the governments of other nations to be °° °r °°°°°°' represented and take part in said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held in some city of, the United States, to be hereafter selected as aforesaid. Medals, cts. Sec. 10. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- $¤**-· U» *32- tions, commemorative of said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition., and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the United States, for the said board of management, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage i act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the payment of a sum Penaltiesofcoin- not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or me to =*P1>1S'» W5- 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. . · Articles import- Sec. 11. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose _ °*l *'°' °XP:;*°¤ of exhibition at the said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ext° "° duty ‘ position, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall be admitted without the payment of duty, or of customs fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: ?’¤>¤i¤•¤· Proeided, That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or withdrawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any are imposed on like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation: And provided further That in case any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all penalties prescribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles, and against thepersons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale. Approved, February 10, 1883. . rw., ig, msu, CHAP. 4-3.-.4m act to amend Iqacvtgmd gbti:-Lvgieven hundred and eighty as the ' ’ Be it enactad by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R. S. 378). States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty~seven him- A¤¤¤¤•l¤•*· dred and eighty of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read: Public Printerto ** When the probable cost of the maps or plates accompanying. one $2*** ¤¤¤L¥¤¤•¤*¤ *7; work or document exceeds one thousand two hundred dollars, the lithwgr"f:,,?:g"Q§hg:_ ographing or engraving thereof shall be awarded to the lowest and ' best bidder, after advertisement, by the Congressional Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing. But the committee may authorize him to make immediate contracts for lithogaphing, or engraving whenever, in their opinion, the exigencies of the public service do not justify advertisements for proposals ". Approved, February 12, 1883. CHAP. 44.-—An act su lemen an a a m se e
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of bridges across the Ohio River, and to prescribe the dimensions of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United th°BPg¢;lg¤R#;·¤f¤¤¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of Congress ap· '° "“· proved December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, en-
