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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · March 27, 1798 · Chapter XXI

Chapter XXI. *declaring the consent of Congress to an Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.*March 27, 1798. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Consent of Congress to an Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Chap. XXI.— An Act *declaring the consent of Congress to an Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.*March 27, 1798. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,*Consent of Congress to an Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. That the consent of Congress be and hereby is granted and declared to the operation of an act of the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts made and passed the second day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, intituled “An act to incorporate Tobias Lord, Oliver Keating, Thatcher Godard and others for the purpose of keeping in repair a pier, at the mouth of Kennebunk river, and to grant them a duty for reimbursing the expense of erecting the same.
” Approved, March 27, 1798.
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