AUGUST 8, 1882.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 372.)

CHAP. 473.-An act to repeal so much of section thirty-three hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes as imposes an export tax on tobacco.

That section thirty-three hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2335. "SEC. 3385. Manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars intended for immediate exportation may, after being properly inspected, marked, and branded, be removed from the manufactory in bond without having affixed thereto the stamps indicating the payment of the tax thereon. The removal of such tobacco, snuff, and cigars from the manufactory shall be made under such regulations, and after making such entries, and executing and filing with the collector of the district from which the removal is to be made such bonds and bills of lading, and giving such other additional security as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. There shall be affixed to each package of tobacco, snuff, and cigars intended for immediate export, before it is removed from the manufactory, an engraved stamp indicative of such intention. Such stamp shall be provided and furnished to the several collectors as in the case of other stamps, and they shall account for the use of the same. When the manufacturer has made the proper entries, filed the bonds, and otherwise complied with the requirements of law and the regulations as herein provided, the collector shall issue to him a permit for the removal, accurately describing the tobacco, snuff, and cigars, to be shipped, the number and kinds of packages, the number of pounds, the marks and brands, the State and collection district from which the same are shipped, the number of the manufactory and the manufacturer's name, the port from which the said tobacco, snuff, and cigars are to be exported, and the route or routes over which the same are to be sent to the port of shipment. Upon the presentation to the collector of internal revenue of a detailed report from the inspectors of customs, and a certificate of the collector of customs at the port from which the goods are to be exported that the goods removed from the manufactory under bond and described in the permit of the collector of internal revenue have been received by the said collector of customs, and that the said goods were duly laden on board of a foreign-bound vessel, naming the vessel, and that the said merchandise was entered on the outward manifest of said vessel, and that the said vessel and cargo were duly cleared from said port, and on the payment of the tax or deficiency, if any, the bonds, which have been given or shall hereafter be required to be given under the provisions of this section shall be canceled. Every person who, with the intent to defraud the revenue laws of the United States, relands or causes to be relanded within the jurisdiction of the United States any manufactured tobacco, snuff, or cigars which have been shipped for exportation under the provisions of this act, without properly entering such tobacco, snuff, or cigars at the custom-house, and paying the proper customs and internal revenue tax thereon, or who receives such relanded tobacco, snuff, or cigars, and every person who aids or abets in such relanding or receiving such tobacco, snuff, or cigars, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, and all tobacco, snuff, or cigars so relanded shall be forfeited to the United States."

DECEMBER 23, 1882.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 398.)

CHAP. 6.-An act to amend the act entitled "An act to repeal the discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope," approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. 2336. That the act entitled "An act to repeal the discriminating duties on goods produced east of the Cape of Good Hope," approved May fourth,

eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

"That section twenty-five hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which reads as follows: There shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth or produce of the countries east of the Cape of Good Hope (except wool, raw cotton, and raw silk, as reeled from the cocoon, or not further advanced than tram, thrown, or organzine,) when imported from places west of the Cape of Good Hope, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the duties imposed on any such article when imported directly from the place or places of their growth or production,' be, and the same is hereby, repealed from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; and all such goods as may be in public store or warehouse on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or on shipboard in port, shall be subject to no other duty than if imported after that day."

JANUARY 9, 1883.

(U.S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 401.)

CHAP. 16.-An act to amend section thirty-three hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Statutes relating to the tax on perique tobacco.

2337. That section thirty-three hundred and sixty-two, as amended by the act of March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words "or for export," and before the words" under such restrictions" in the second provision of said section, the following words: "And perique tobacco may be sold by the manufacturer or producer thereof, in the form of carrottes, directly to a legally-qualified manufacturer, to be cut or granulated and used as material in the manufacture of cigarettes or smoking-tobacco, without the payment of tax."

JANUARY 9, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 402.)

CHAP. 17.-An act to permit grain brought by Canadian farmers to be ground at mills in the United States adjacent to Canadian territory, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Treasury Department.

2338. That grain brought into the United States in wagons or other ordinary road vehicles, by farmers residing in the Dominion of Canada, to be ground by mills owned by citizens of the United States, shall not be deemed to be imported or liable to import duties: Provided, That such grain shall be brought into the United States under such regulations as the Treasury Department may prescribe to prevent fraud and evasion, and shall be returned as in like manner provided by such regulations: And provided further, That entry shall be made of and duties paid upon all such grain as shall be taken or received by millowners as tolls for such grinding, under like regulations provided by the Trea sury Department.

JANUARY 13, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 402.)

CHAP. 24.-An act relating to exportation of tobacco, snuff, and cigars, in bond, free of tax, to adjacent foreign territory.

2339. That section thirty-three hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of June ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be further amended by adding, after the words "shall be canceled," where they first occur therein, the following words: "But when the

goods are exported to an adjacent foreign territory, by vessel or otherwise, said bonds shall be canceled upon such proofs of exportation as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury."

FEBRUARY 10, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 413.)

CHAP. XLII.-An Act to encourage the holding of a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

2340. Whereas it is desirable to encourage for celebration the one hundredth anniversary of the production, manufacture, and commerce of cotton, by holding, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in some city of the Union, to be selected by the executive committee of the National Cotton Planters' Association of America, an institution for the public welfare, incorporated under the laws of Mississippi, a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held under the joint auspices of the United States, the said National Cotton Planters' Association of America, and of the city in which it may be located, and in which cotton in all its conditions of culture and manufacture will be the chief exhibit, but which is designed also to include all arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine; and

2341. Whereas such an exhibition should be national and international in its character, in which the people of this country and other parts of the world whe are interested in the subject should participate, it should have the sanction of the Congress of the United States: Therefore,

2342. Be it enacted, etc., That a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under the joint auspices of the United States Government, the National Cotton Planters' Association of America, and the city where it may be located.

2343. SEC. 2. That the President of the United States may upon the recommendation of the executive committee of the National Cotton Planters' Association of America, appoint six United States commissioners, and upon the recommendation of the majority of subscribers to the enterprise in the city where it may be located, may appoint seven United States commissioners, who, together, shall constitute a board of management of said World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.

2344. SEC. 3. That the President of the United States may on the recommendation of the governors of the various States and Territories of the Union, appoint one commissioner and one alternate commissioner for each State and Territory, whose functions shall be defined by the said board of management. 2345. SEC. 4. That all of said commissioners shall be appointed within one year from the passage of this act.

2346. SEC. 5. That the said board of management shall hold its meetings in such city as may be selected for the location of the said exposition by the National Cotton Planters' Association of America as aforesaid, and that a majority of said board of management shall have full power to make all needful rules and regulations for its government.

2347. SEC. 6. That said board of management shall report to the President of the United States a suitable date for opening and closing the exposition; a schedule of appropriate ceremonies for opening or dedicating the same; and such other matters as, in their judgment, may be deemed important.

2348. SEC. 7. That no compensation for services shall be paid to the commissioners or other officers provided by this act from the Treasury of the United States; and the United States shall not be liable for any of the expenses attending such exhibition, or by reason of the same.

2349. SEC. 8. That whenever the President shall be informed by the said hoard of management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or the erection of the same, for the purposes of said exposition, the President shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation 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 communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all nations copies of the same and a copy of this act, together with such regulations as may be adopted by said board of management, for publication in their respective countries.

2350. SEC. 9. That the President be requested to send, in the name of the United States, invitations to the government's of other nations to be 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.

2351. SEC. 10. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions, 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 act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, upon the payment of a sum 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 medals struck and issued under this act.

2352. SEC. 11. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the said World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 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: 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 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 the persons who may be guilty of such withdrawal or sale.

FEBRUARY 17, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 607.)

No. 9.-Joint resolution to admit free of duty a monument to General Washington.

2353. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania to import free of duty a monument or the parts thereof, as they may be completed, proposed to be erected as a memorial of General Washington in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

FEBRUARY 26, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 639.)

No. 17.-Joint resolution to provide for admission free of duty of articles intended for a special Exhibition of machinery, tools, implements, apparatus, and so forth, for the generation and application of Electricity to be held at Philadelphia, by the Franklin Institute.

2354. Whereas, the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, proposes to hold an exhibition of Electrical Apparatus, Machinery, Tools and Implements and other articles used in scientific and mechanical and manufacturing business and investigations; and

Whereas, it is deemed desirable to promote the success of such an exhibition by all reasonable encouragement, in order that it may be made useful for the promotion of knowledge; Therefore be it

Resolved, etc., That all articles which shall be imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Exhibition to be held by the Franklin Institute of the

State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts in the City of Philadelphia in the years Eighteen hundred and eighty-three or Eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall be admitted without payment of duty or customs 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; and Provided Further, That in case any article imported under the provisions of this Joint Resolution 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 persons who may be guilty of such thdrawal or sales.

MARCH 3, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 641.)

No. 22.-Joint resolution providing for the termination of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and article numbered thirty of the treaty between the United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, concluded at Washington, May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy

one.

2355. That in the judgment of Congress the provisions of articles numbered eighteen to twenty-five, inclusive, and of article thirty of the treaty between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty, for an amicable settlement of all causes of difference between the two countries, concluded at Washington on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ought to be terminated at the earliest possible time, and be no longer in force; and to this end the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give notice to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty that the provisions of each and every of the articles aforesaid will terminate and be of no force on the expiration of two years next after the time of giving such notice.

2356. SEC. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, directed to give and communicate to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty such notice of such termination on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eightythree, or as soon thereafter as may be.

2357. SEC. 3. That on and after the expiration of the two years' time required by said treaty, each and every of said articles shall be deemed and held to have expired and be of no force and effect, and that every department of the Government of the United States shall execute the laws of the United States (in the premises,) in the same manner and to the same effect as if said articles had never been in force; and the act of Congress approved March first, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed in the city of Washington the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to the fisheries," so far as it relates to the articles of said treaty so to be terminated shall be and stand repealed and be of no force on and after the time of the expiration of said two years.

MARCH 2, 1883.

(U. S. STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. XXII., p. 451.)

CHAP. 64.-An act to prevent the importation of adulterated and spurious Teas. 2358. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawfu for any person or persons or corporation to import or bring into the United States any merchandise for sale as tea, adulterated with spurious leaf or with exhausted leaves, or which contains so great an admixture of chemicals or other deleterious substances as to make it unfit for use; and the importation of all such merchandise is hereby prohibited.

2359. SEC. 2. That on making entry at the custom-house of all tea or merchandise described as tea imported into the United States, the importer or