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42nd Congress · 1871–1873
H.R. 1069
A Bill To exempt the iron steam ice-boats constructed by the city of Philadelphia from the inspection required by the…
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Latest action: Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To exempt the iro… · January 18, 1872 Understand the measure
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Introduced
Read twice, referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Myers, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill To exempt the iron steam ice-boats constructed by the city of Philadelphia from the inspection required by the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam and for other purposes.""
Recorded January 18, 1872, as the clerk wrote it
Official title
A Bill To exempt the iron steam ice-boats constructed by the city of Philadelphia from the inspection required by the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled An act to provide for the better security of life on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam and for other purposes".
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