United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 34
[Expired.]
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act to continue in force an act therein mentioned, relating to the port of Baltimore.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The act passed 17th March, 1800, chap. 15, as relates to the act of Maryland, continued to 3d March, 1843. That the act passed the seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred, entitled “An act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland and Georgia,” and which, by subsequent acts, has been revived and continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same, so far as it relates to the act of Maryland, is hereby revived and continued in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three. Provided,Proviso. That nothing herein contained shall authorize the demand of a duty on tonnage on vessels propelled by steam, employed in the transportation of passengers.
Approved, March 19, 1838.