Chapter XXIV. *to amend the Charter of the “Washington Gas-Light Company.”* Jan. 30, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of the acts of Price of gas in Washington, D
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act *to amend the Charter of the “Washington Gas-Light Company.”* Jan. 30, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of the acts of Price of gas in Washington, D.C. 1860, ch. 211. Vol. xii. p. 107. 1862, ch. 143. Vol. xii. p. 534. 1848, ch. 96. Vol. ix. p. 722.June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty, and July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, as relate to the price of gas furnished by the “Washington Gas-Light Company,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and the act incorporating the “Washington Gas-Light Company” is hereby so amended as to prohibit the said company from receiving, on and after the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of its stockholders, a greater price for gas than forty cents per hundred cubic feet, subject to a discount of ten per centum on all bills for gas fur nished to the general government, and five per centum on all bills for gaa furnished to other consumers, if paid at the office of the company within seven days from the rendition thereof.
Approved, January 30, 1865.