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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 5 STAT. · July 7, 1838 · Chapter CLXIII

Chapter CLXIII. supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions,” approved twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight

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Chap. CLXIII.— An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions,” approved twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.July 7, 1838. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That nothing in the Act of June 26, 1838, ch. 147—supplement. act to which this is additional shall be construed to exclude from the consideration and examination of the commissioners, any plan of a steam engine, for propelling boats constructed without a boiler.
Approved, July 7, 1838.
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