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Volume 22

Public Law 47–33

amending sections nineteen hundred and twenty-six and nineteen hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes so as to extend the limits of the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the Territories of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Approved January 19, 1883

Statutory text

An act

amending sections nineteen hundred and twenty-six and nineteen hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes so as to extend the limits of the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the Territories of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

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

That sections nineteen hundred

R. S. 1926, 339.

R. S. 1927, 339.

Amended.

and twenty-six and nineteen hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby amended by striking out the word “Washington,” and the words “Idaho, Montana,” where they occur in said section nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and inserting the said words immediately after the word “Colorado” where the same occurs in said section nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

Approved, January 19, 1883.

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