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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · July 5, 1797 · Chapter X

Chapter X. *to continue in force to the end of the next session, certain acts, and parts of acts, of limited duration.*July 5, 1797.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Certain laws declared in force till the end of next se

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Chap. X.— An Act *to continue in force to the end of the next session, certain acts, and parts of acts, of limited duration.*July 5, 1797.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Certain laws declared in force till the end of next session. That all laws of the United States, and parts of laws now in force, and which, by the terms of their limitation, will expire with the end of this session of Congress, shall be, and hereby are continued in force, until the end of the next session. Approved, July 5, 1797.
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