Volume 2
Public Law 10–XLVI
to continue in force, for a further time, an act intituled “An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction.”
Approved April 19, 1808
Statutory text
An Act
to continue in force, for a further time, an act intituled “An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the act, intituled “An act
Act of March 3, 1805, ch. 41, continued in force for two years.
for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction,” passed on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, be, and the same hereby is continued in force for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, .