An Act In aid of the World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition to be held at New York City

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Summary

All articles imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at the World's Fair Prize Winners Exposition shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees or charges. It shall be lawful to sell for delivery, at the close of the exposition, any of the goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition. All of the provisions of public resolution numbered thirty, entitled "Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition to bring to this country foreign laborers from their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhibits," approved August 5th, 1892, are hereby extended to and made applicable to the World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition.

Subject

  • World's Fair Prize Winners Exposition
  • World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 28 Stat. 8
  • Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies and Organizations
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Notes

Joint Resolution No. 30, 52d Congress, Sess. 1, Aug. 5, 1892, is noted.

Contained within

28 Stat. 8 (1893); ch. 15 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1895
  • 11/03/1893

Topic

  • Duty-free importation
  • Tariff
  • Exhibitions

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 8-9

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