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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · March 17, 1866 · Chapter XX

Chapter XX. to amend an Act to extend the Charter of the President and Directors of the Fireman’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia

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CHAP. XX.— An Act to amend an Act to extend the Charter of the President and Directors of the Fireman’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.March 17, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sixth, seventh, eighth,Repeal of certain sections of the act incorporating the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington, &c. ninth, and tenth sections of the act to incorporate the president and directors of the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and which was extended by the act approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, be, and the same hereby are, repealed; the fire companies which existed at the time of the passage of said acts, and upon which existence said sections were based, having ceased to exist.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the stock of said Firemen’sStock to be issued, sold, &c. Insurance Company shall be issued, sold, transferred, and held in the same manner that the same might have been issued, sold, transferred, and held had those sections never existed. Approved, March 17, 1866.
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