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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 1 STAT. · July 5, 1790 · Chapter XXV

Chapter XXV. *for giving effect to an act intituled “An act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States,” in respect to the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.*July 5, 1790.[Obsolete.] Section 1. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentativesAct for enumeration

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Chap. XXV.— An Act *for giving effect to an act intituled “An act providing for the enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States,” in respect to the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.*July 5, 1790.[Obsolete.] Section 1. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentativesAct for enumeration declared in force as to R. Island. of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act passed the present session of Congress, intituled “An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,” shall be deemedAct of March 1, 1790, ch. 2. to have the like force and operation within the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, as elsewhere within the United States; and all the regulations, provisions, directions, authorities, penalties, and other matters whatsoever, contained or expressed in the said act, and which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the like force and effect within the said state, as if the same were repeated and re-enacted in and by this present act.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the marshal of the district ofSalary of the marshal. Rhode Island shall receive, in full compensation for the performance of all the duties and services confided to, and enjoined upon him by this act, one hundred dollars. Approved, July 5, 1790.
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