Chapter XXIV. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the Coolie Trade by American Citizens in American Vessels,” approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Feb. 9, 1869. 1862. ch. 27
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the Coolie Trade by American Citizens in American Vessels,” approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Feb. 9, 1869. 1862. ch. 27. Vol. xii. p. 340. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all the provisions of an act Prohibition of coolie trade extended to Japan.entitled “An act to prohibit the coolie trade by American citizens in American vessels,” approved February nineteen, eighteen hundred an d sixty-two, shall be extended so as to include and embrace the inhabitants or subjects of Japan, or of any other oriental country, known as coolies, in the same manner and to the same extent as such act and its provisions apply to the inhabitants and subjects of China.
Approved, February 9, 1869.