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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · September 29, 1789 · Chapter VIII

Chapter VIII. *to continue in force, for a limited time, an act passed at the first Session of Congress, intituled “An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.”*(*a*)(*a*)Act of September 29, 1789; act of May 8, 1792, chap. 36, sec. 8

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Chap. VIII.— An Act *to continue in force, for a limited time, an act passed at the first Session of Congress, intituled “An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.”*(*a*)(*a*)Act of September 29, 1789; act of May 8, 1792, chap. 36, sec. 8.Feb. 18, 1791.[Repealed.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United*1792, ch. 36. *States of America in Congress assembled,* That an act passed on theFormer act declared to be in force till the end of next session of Congress.1789, ch. 21. twenty-ninth day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, intituled, “An act to regulate processes in the courts of the United States,” shall be, and the same hereby is continued in force, until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, February 18, 1791.
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