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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 22 STAT. · May 17, 1882 · Chapter 157

Chapter 157. to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia

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CHAP. 157.— An Act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia.May 17, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,[R. S. 553, p. 67, D. C., amended](/us/rs/t/s553/p67).Companies formed for insuring titles to real estate, may become perpetual, etc. That the live hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the words “life insurance” the words “or for the purpose of insuring titles to real estate.
” Sec. 2. That any company heretofore formed, agreeably to the aforesaid section of the said Revised Statutes, for the purpose of insuring titles to real estate may become perpetual on filing in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia a certificate to that effect in like manner as is provided by law for the filing of the original certificate of incorporation. Approved, May 17, 1882.
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