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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · June 1, 1796 · Chapter LIII

Chapter LIII. *to suspend, in part, the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act intituled An act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar.”*June 1, 1796.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Certain act layin

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Chap. LIII.— An Act *to suspend, in part, the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act intituled An act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar.”*June 1, 1796.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Certain act laying duty on snuff mills, &c. suspended. That so much of the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act, intituled An act laying certain duties upon snuff and refined sugar,” as respects the duties therein laid upon mills and implements employed in the manufacture of snuff, and the drawbacks therein allowed upon the exportation of snuff manufactured within the United States, be suspended, from the passing of this act, until the end of the next session of Congress.
Approved, June 1, 1796. RESOLUTIONS Resolution 1 Stat. 495 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 4 1 public Resolved *by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,April 18, 1796.Relating to invalid pensioners. That the Secretary for the Department of War, return to the respective district judges, the names of all such persons, as have been transmitted to him by the several district judges, pursuant to the act for the regulation of claims to invalid pensions; and in whose cases, the examining physicians have neglected to specify the ratio of disability; together with such defective returns of physicians.
And the said district judges, respectively, shall forthwith cause the examining physicians to specify the several rates of disability, which have been so neglected; or, in case of sickness, death, or removal of one or both such physicians, to make new appointments, and cause the several rates of disability to be specified, and by the said physicians returned to them, as soon as may be; of which, they shall make return to the Secretary at War, who shall, at the session of Congress holden next after, or at the time of such receipt, make return thereof, with such observations, as he may think proper to subjoin, that the proper order may be taken thereon by Congress.
Approved, April 18, 1796. 4 2 1796 1797 ACTS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the fifth day of December,* 1796, *and ended on the third of March,* 1797. George Washington, President; John Adams, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; William Bingham, President of the Senate pro tempore, from March 2d, 1797; Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE II. Chapter I: to amend the act intituled “An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States.” 1 Stat. 496 1796-12-21 Chapter I Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 4 2 public Chapter I.— An Act *to amend the act intituled “An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States.”*Dec. 21, 1796.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 50.
That the Secretary Acts of present session, how published.for the department of State shall cause to be included in the edition of the laws of the United States, directed to be printed by the said act, the laws of the United States which may be passed during the present session of Congress: *Provided,* the same can be done at an expense which he shall judge reasonable. Approved, December 21, 1796.
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*to suspend, in part, the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act intituled An act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar.”*June 1, 1796.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Certain act layin
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