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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · June 9, 1794 · Chapter LXI

Chapter LXI. *declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three for the appointment of a Health Officer.*June 9, 1794.[Obsolete.] Section 1

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Chap. LXI.— An Act *declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three for the appointment of a Health Officer.*June 9, 1794.[Obsolete.] Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofConsent of Congress to certain act of Maryland. *Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the consent of Congress be and is hereby granted and declared, to the THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 62, 63. 1794.394operation of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, intituled “An act to appoint a health officer, for the port of Baltimore, in Baltimore county,” so far as to enable the state aforesaid to collect a duty of one cent, per ton, on all vessels coming into the district of Baltimore, from a foreign voyage, for the purposes in the said act intended. Sec. 2. Limitation of this act.1796, ch. 23.*And be it further enacted,* That this act shall continue in force to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, June 9, 1794.
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