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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · May 22, 1860 · Chapter LI

Chapter LI. *to amend the “Act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil Departments of the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia.”* May 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That th

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Chap. LI.— An Act *to amend the “Act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the civil Departments of the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia.”* May 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the charter of the Provident 1825, ch. 97. Vol. vi. p. 837. 1849, ch. 78. Vol. ix. 767. Members may withdraw on notice and receive from assets, &c.Association of Clerks be, and the same is hereby, so amended that any member of the Association may, on giving one month’s notice to the president and board of officers, withdraw from the Association, and receive out of the funds and assets of the Association such sum as the president and board of officers of the said Association may consider just and equitable; but in be case to exceed the amount he may have contributed, with interest at the rate of six per centum, nor his distributive share of the entire assets, if distributed pro rata to family interest at the time of such withdrawal.
Approved, May 22, 1860.
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