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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · July 7, 1870 · Chapter CCVIII

Chapter CCVIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Police Court for the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes,” approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy*

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CHAP. CCVIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Police Court for the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes,” approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy*. July 7, 1870.1870, ch. 133.*Ante*, p. 153. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Police court for the District of Columbia may be organized and first term held after the judge has been qualified. That an act entitled “An act to establish a police court for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the said police court may be organized and the first term thereof held any day after the judge of said court shall have been commissioned and qualified.
Approved, July 7, 1870.
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