Chapter XXV. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, in the District of Co lum bia,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Jan. 30, 1865. 1864, ch. 140, § 17. *Ante,* p. 329. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State
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Chap. XXV.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, in the District of Co lum bia,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.* Jan. 30, 1865. 1864, ch. 140, § 17. *Ante,* p. 329. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section seventeen of the act Time for completing portion of road extended.to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, of the District of Co lumbia, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the completion of their railroad line, except that part thereof between Seventeenth Street and th e Capitol, for one year from the passage of this act: *Provided, however,* That the line from Seventeenth Street and the Capitol be com pleted, equipped, and running, within thirty days from the passage of this act.
Approved, January 30, 1865.