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 vessel be built within the said States, and belong to a citizen or citizens thereof, shall, on each entry, pay fifty cents per ton.

.And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from and after the fifteenth day of August next.

, July 20, 1789.

.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be an Executive department, to be denominated the Department of