Chapter XXII. authorizing the Washington Gas-light Company to increase the Capital Stock of said Company
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Chap. XXII.— An Act authorizing the Washington Gas-light Company to increase the Capital Stock of said Company. Jan. 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Increase of car pital stock authorized. That the “Washington Gas-light Company” be, and the same hereby is, authorized to increase the capital stock thereof one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the said stock shall be subscribedSubscription how made. on the books of said company in shares of twenty dollars, and the holders of the said increased certificates of stock shall be held subject to the same liability as is provided in the eleventh section of the original actLiability of stockholders.1848, ch. 96 of incorporation, approved July eight, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
Approved, January 3, 1855.