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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 2 STAT. · June 15, 1809 · Chapter V

Chapter V. *to continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of the state of South Carolina, passed the twenty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and four.”* June 15, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Cong

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Chap. V.— An Act *to continue in force “An act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of the state of South Carolina, passed the twenty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and four.”* June 15, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* [Expired.]Act of March 28, 1806, ch. 17, continued in force for five years. That the act of the twenty-eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, entituled “An act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of South Carolina, passed on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, so far as the same relates to authorizing the city council of Charleston to impose and collect a duty on the tonnage of vessels from foreign ports,” be and the same is hereby continued in force from the passage of this act for five years, and thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
Approved, June 15, 1809.
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