Chapter VI. *in Addition to the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company.”* Jan. 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Act incorporating the Washington, &c
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CHAP. VI.— An Act *in Addition to the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company.”* Jan. 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Act incorporating the Washington, &c. Steam Packet Company, extended.1829, ch. 56. Vol. vi. p. 398.1849, ch. 73. Vol. ix. p. 766.Act may be repealed, &c. That the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and continued for twenty years by the act of twenty-sixth February, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued in full force and effect for another period of twenty years, commencing with the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine : *Provided, nevertheless*, That Congress may at any time hereafter modify or repeal the same.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That no suit or action depending inNo suit, &c. by or against the corporation, to be abated, &c. any court whatsoever, in which the said corporation is plaintiff or defendant, shall abate or be discontinued by reason of the expiration of the charter of said corporation, but the same shall continue and be prosecuted in all respects as if said charter had not expired ; and the presidentOfficers to continue. and directors who were in office at the time it expired shall continue in office under and by virtue of this act until others shall be duly chosen in their places.
Approved, January 15, 1870.