rtrarrrirrn com-ness. sms. III. ons. 4.94, 495. 1899. 1349 duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That §'°***°•- all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United _ ur States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all pena1· ties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such arti- t cles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: And provided further, That all necessary expenses incurred S¤l¤ri¤¤ =¤¤ d exin carrying out the provisions of this section, including salaries of *’°”°°”‘ customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the Treasury of the United States by the Ohio Centennial Company, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- commemminvs tions commemorative of said Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory "‘°""’· Exposition and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat be prepared at some mint in the United States for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coin- V¤L17·v-452 age Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment by the Ohio Centennial Company of a um 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 medal struck and issued under this Act. ‘ Sec. 6. That the United States shall in no manner and under no cir- Sgjgbiliirto; U¤i¤¤d cumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, ° m ° ` or liability of any kind whatever of the said Ohio*Centennial Company, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess of the Eve hundred thousand dollars herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of American Republics, 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. Sec. 7. That at the close of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Ter- tcigurgtga •g;¤i¤>it¤ ritory Exposition the exhibits of the United States Government shall mmf2a,. W"` be returned to the several departments or bureaus from which they were received; and such collections as may be acquired by the board by purchase, preparation, gift, or otherwise, illustrating the natural resources, industries, customs, and commerce of the other American Republics, shall be placed for permanent preservation in the United States National Museum. Sec. S. That the appropriation herein made, of five hundred thousand Avqmuiiiin- nr up dollars in all, shall take effect and become available immediately upon *"°"““*‘°“· the proof being made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the conditions prescribed in section three of this Act have been complied with. Approved, March 3, 1899. CHAP. 435.-An Act To amend the internal-revenue laws relating to distilled M¤i·¤1iri.1s9s. spirits, and for other purposes. mmm lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ‘ Staten of America in Congress assembled, That under the conditions and g;§*E30?;i;:· on limitations imposed by section fifty of the Act of August twenty-eighth, in wmiwuis isuninl eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, }gg¤gf;°;r0*Lj*gj,;*g1g{ to provide revenue for the support of the Government, and for other engr; purposes? allowance for loss shall be made_as to all distilled spirits °·”*P·“"· produced and originally gauged_ for deposit prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and which lawfully remain in any internal-revenue bonded warehouse, after the expiration of the period \
