United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19
[Expired.]
Chap. XIX.—An Act to continue in force “An act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, for the appointment of a health officer.”
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 12.
Assent of Congress given to a law of Maryland, enabling the state to collect a duty on vessels coming from a foreign voyage.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 day 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 the operation of this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for nine years from the passing thereof, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
Approved, March 1, 1805.