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The first Federal law was An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths, Sess. 1, ch. 1, 1 Stat. 23. This law was passed on June 1, 1789.

The first substantive law was the Hamilton Tariff, Sess. 1, ch. 2, 1 Stat. 2.

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