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​May 27, 1840.

Chap. XXVII.—An Act authorizing Sippican and Mattapoisett, within the township of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, to be known hereafter as ports under those names.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sippican and Mattapoisett to be known as ports, &c. That Sippican and Mattapoisett, harbors within the township of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, be hereafter respectively known as ports under those names within the collection district of New Bedford; and that the respective inhabitants thereof be authorized to describe as the law requires their vessels as belonging to the respective places instead of Rochester.

Approved, May 27, 1840.

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