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Volume 21

Public Law 46–38

authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to extend the area for the taking up and impounding of domestic animals in the District of Columbia.

Approved June 27, 1879

Statutory text

An Act

authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to extend the area for the taking up and impounding of domestic animals in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to prescribe rules for taking up and impounding of domestic animals found running at

Impounding domestic animals.

large in the District of Columbia.

Approved, June 27, 1879.

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