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THEODORE SEDGWICK,

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Vice-President of the United States, and Prefi

dent of the Senate.

APPROVED-February 25, A, D. 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXXII.

AN ACT to continue in force the acts laying duties on licences for felling wines and foreign diftilled fpirits by retail, and fo much of the act laying certain duties on fnuff and refined fugar as refpects a duty on refined fugar, on property feld at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of perfons.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That an act paffed on the fifth day of June, in the year one thoufand seven hundred and ninety-four, intituled, "An act laying duties on licences for felling wines and foreign diftilled fpirituous liquors by retail;" and that fo much of an act paffed on the fifth day of June, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, intituled," An act laying certain duties upon fnuff and refined fugar," as refpects a duty upon refined fugar, and that an act paffed on the ninth day of June in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four, intituled, " An act laying duties on property fold at auction," and which acts were, by an act paffed on the third day of March, in the year one thoufand feven hun

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"qdred and ninety-five, continued in force until the first day of March, in the year one thoufand eight hundred and one, fhall be, and the fame are hereby continued in force without li mitation of time; any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That fo much of the thirteenth fection of an act, paffed "Act laying on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the year carriages," one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-fix, in- &c. continued tituled, “ An act laying duties upon carriages tation. for the conveyance of perfons, and repealing the former act for that purpofe," as limits the duration of faid act, fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed, and faid act is hereby con tinued in force, without limitation of time. oba THEODORE SEDGWICK

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefi-
dent of the Senate.

APPROVED February 25, A. D. 1801.

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CHAPTER LXXXIII.

AN ACT declaring the confent of Congress to an act of the State of Maryland, paffed the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-three, for the appointment of a Health Officer.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the confent of Congrefs be, and is hereby granted and declar

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ed, to the operation of an act of the General Affembly of Maryland, paffed thetwenty-eighth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-three, intituled, " An act to ap-point a Health Officer for the Port of Baltimore, in Baltimore county," fo far as tó enable the state aforefaid to collect a duty of one cent per ton, on all veffels coming into the dif trict of Baltimore from a foreign voyage, för the purposes in faid act intended.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for three years, from the paffing thereof, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of Congress thereafter, and no longer.

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED February 27, A. D. 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXXIV.

AN ACT to allow the tranfportation of goods, wares and merchandife, to and from Philadel phia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Saffafras.

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E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That any goods, wares and merchandife, which lawfully might be transported to or from the City of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Elkton, Bohemia or Frenchtown, and Port Penn, Appoquinimink, New-Caftle, Chriftiana-Bridge,

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Newport or Wilmington, fhall and may lawfully be tranfported, to and from the city of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appoquinimink and Saffafras river, and thall be entitled to all the benefits and advantages, and fhall be fubject to all the provisions, regulations, limitations and reftrictions, exifting in the cafe of goods, wares and merchandise, tranfported by any of the routes before mentioned.w

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THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-President of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED February 27, A. D. 1801.

JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER LXXXV.

AN ACT for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman, or his legal reprefentatives.

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E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to iffue a patent for the thirteenth township, in the feventh range, to Arnold Henry Dorhman or his legal reprefentatives, agreeably to a refolution of Congrefs of the

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APPROVED-February 27, 1801.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

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CHAPTER LXXXVI.

AN ACT concerning the district of Columbia, E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of AmeLaws of Vir- rica, in Congress affembled, That the laws of ryland contin- the state of Virginia, as they now exift, fhall ued in force be and continue in force in that part of the diftrict of Columbia, which was ceded by the faid flate to the United States, and by them accepted for the permanent feat of govern govern ment; and that the laws of the ftate of Maryland, as they now exift, fhall be and continue in force in that part of the faid district, which was ceded by that state to the United States, and by them accepted as aforefaid.

It shall be formed into two counties.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said district of Columbia fhall be formed into two counties; one county fhall contain all that part of faid diftri&t, which lies on the eaft fide of the river Potowmac, together with the iflands therein, and thall be called the county of Washington; the other county fhall contain all that part of faid diftrict, which lies on the weft fide of faid river, and fhall be called the county of Alexandria; and the faid river in its whole courfe through faid diftrict fhall be ta

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