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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · August 2, 1852 · Chapter LXXIX

Chapter LXXIX.

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Chap. LXXIX.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washing-ton Gas-light Company,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.* August 2, 1852. 1848, ch. 96. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the act entitled Charter of the Gas-light Company amended.“An act to incorporate the Washington Gas-light Company,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be, and the same is hereby 1854, ch. 98, § 12.amended by inserting in the second section, immediately before the word “fifty,” the words “three hundred and;” and in the seventh section, wherever the word “Washington” occurs, by inserting immediately thereafter the word “*and Georgetown.*” Approved, August 2, 1852.
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