42 U.S.C. § 89 (2024)
This is the official text of 42 U.S.C. § 89 (2024), part of Federal (US Code)’s United States Code — the codified general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, organized into more than 50 numbered titles by subject.
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Quarantine warehouses; erection
Official statutory text
There shall be purchased or erected, under the orders of the President, suitable warehouses, with wharves and inclosures, where merchandise may be unladen and deposited, from any vessel which shall be subject to a quarantine, or other restraint, pursuant to the health laws of any State, at such convenient places therein as the safety of the public revenue and the observance of such health laws may require.
(R.S. §4794.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. §4794 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, §3, 1 Stat. 620.
(R.S. §4794.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. §4794 derived from act Feb. 23, 1799, ch. 12, §3, 1 Stat. 620.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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