Chapter 12.
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CHAP. 12.— An act to establish a standard of time in the District of Columbia.Mar. 13, 1884. Standard of time in District of Columbia. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the legal standard of time in the District of Columbia shall hereafter be the mean time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich. Sec. 2. That this act shall not be so construed as to affect existing contracts. Approved, March 13, 1884.