United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 177
Chap. CLXXVII.—An Act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district.”
Act of Aug. 3, 1842, ch. 120.
Construction of the 1st section of the act.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section 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 third day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two.
Approved, August 16, 1842.