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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 5 STAT. · Aug. 16, 1842 · Chapter CLXXVII

Chapter CLXXVII. *explanatory of an ad entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”* Aug. 16, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the first section Act of Aug

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Chap. CLXXVII.— An Act *explanatory of an ad entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”* Aug. 16, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the first section Act of Aug. 3, 1842, ch. 120. Construction of the 1st section of the act.of the act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district,” shall be construed in the same manner it would have been had the words “from and after the thirtieth day of June next” been wholly omitted in said section.
The act to take effect from and after 3d August 1842. 1842, ch. 120. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the aforesaid act, entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall take effect in all its provisions, and be in force as hereby explained, from and after the said third day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two. Approved, August 16, 1842.
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