Chapter 29. to amend section live hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 29.— An Act to amend section live hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia.Jan. 28, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,R. S. 553, D. C., amended.“Telephone.” That section five hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, amended by inserting the word “telephone” after the word “transportation”, so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 553. Any three or more persons who desire to form a company for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacturing, agricultural, mining, mechanical, insurance, mercantile, transportation, telephone, or marketing business, in the District, or savings bank therein, may make, sign, and acknowledge, before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of recorder of deeds, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated ”. " Approved, January 28, 1881.