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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · Feb. 28, 1820 · Chapter XVII

Chapter XVII. further to extend the charter of the city of Washington

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Chap. XVII.— An Act further to extend the charter of the city of Washington.Feb. 28, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act incorporating the inhabitants of Washington, &c. continued till 3d March, 1821. Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53. Act of Feb. 24, 1804, ch. 14 Act of May 4, 1812, ch. 75. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia,” and the act supplementary to the same, passed on the twenty-fourth of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, and the act, entitled “An act further to amend the charter of the city of Washington,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, unless sooner repealed.
Approved, February 28, 1820.
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