United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 61
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Chap. ⅬⅩⅠ.—An Act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, for the appointment of a Health Officer.
Consent of Congress to certain act of Maryland.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress be and is hereby granted and declared, to the operation of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, intituled “An act to appoint a health officer, for the port of Baltimore, in Baltimore county,” so far as to enable the state aforesaid to collect a duty of one cent. per ton, on all vessels coming into the district of Baltimore, from a foreign voyage, for the purposes in the said act intended.
Limitation of this act.
1796, ch. 23.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, June 9, 1794.