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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · Apr. 18, 1884 · Chapter 24

Chapter 24.

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CHAP. 24.— An act to further suspend the operation of section fifty-five hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, title seventy-two, in relation to guano islands.Apr. 18, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Guano Islands, R. S. 5574, 1080; suspended, etc. That section fifty-five hundred and seventy-four, title seventy-two, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, be and the same is hereby, further suspended, as therein set forth, for the period of five years next from and after the passage of this act. Approved, April 18, 1884.
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