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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · March 25, 1870 · Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVI. *to renew and continue in Force the Charter of the Potomac Insurance Company, of Georgetown, District of Columbia*

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CHAP. XXXVI.— An Act *to renew and continue in Force the Charter of the Potomac Insurance Company, of Georgetown, District of Columbia*. March 25, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Charter of Potomac Insurance Company of Georgetown, D. C., renewed, &c.1831, ch. 90.Vol. vi. p. 460.1837, ch. 57.Vol. vi. p. 691.1851, ch. 3.Vol. ix. p. 808. That the act entitled “An act to incorporate a Fire Insurance Company, in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia,” approved the second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and the act entitled “An act to amend the charter of the Potomac Insurance Company, of Georgetown,” approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven ; and the act entitled “An act to renew and continue in force the charter of the Potomac Insurance Company, of Georgetown,” approved the twenty-seventh of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same are hereby, re-enacted and extended from the date of the expiration of the last-mentioned act, until the repeal of this act.
Sec. 2. Place of business of corporation may be removed to Washington, D. C.*And be it further enacted*, That so much of section eight of the original charter as restricts the company to having its office in Georgetown, District of Columbia, is hereby amended so as to permit the company to remove its place of business to Washington, District of Columbia, if it so elects. Approved, March 25, 1870.
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