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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · March 19, 1792 · Chapter X

Chapter X. *declaring the consent of Congress to a certain Act of the State of Maryland, and to continue for a longer time, an Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, so far as the same respects the States of Georgia,

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Chap. X.— An Act *declaring the consent of Congress to a certain Act of the State of Maryland, and to continue for a longer time, an Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, so far as the same respects the States of Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.*March 19, 1792.[Expired.]Act of May 12, 1796, ch. 26. Section 1. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives*Consent of Congress to operation of a certain act of Maryland; and *of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the consent of Congress be, and is hereby granted and declared to the operation of an act of the general assembly of Maryland, made and passed at a session begun and held at the city of Annapolis, on the first Monday in November last, intituled “An act empowering the wardens of the port of Baltimore to levy and collect the duty therein mentioned.
” Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the act, intituled “An actassent to certain acts, Maryland &c. continued as to Georgia and R. Island. declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” shall be continued, and is hereby declared to be in full force, so far as the same respects the states of Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence1790, ch. 43. Plantations. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall be and continueLimitation. in force for the term of three years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, March 19, 1792.
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