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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · May 31, 1878 · Chapter 147

Chapter 147.

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CHAP. 147.— AN ACT supplementary to the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three entitled An act supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one incorporating Columbia College District of Columbia.May 31, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Columbian College, D.C.1873, ch. 328,17 Stat., 629, Amended. That the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ratifying and confirming the act for the relief of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, enacted by the legislative assembly of the said District, and approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be so modified as to authorize the trustees and overseers of the Columbian University to hold their annual meeting on such day in May or June as the said trustees and overseers shall appoint, instead of being held on the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday in June”.
Approved, May 31, 1878.
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