Chapter 330. to amend section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of chapter one, title twenty-three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to general incorporation acts of Territories
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CHAP. 330.— An Act to amend section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of chapter one, title twenty-three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to general incorporation acts of Territories.March 3, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Powers of Territorial legislatures.[R. S., sec. 1889, p. 383, amended](/us/rs/t/s1889/p383).Legislatures of Territories not to gran t private charters, but may pass general incorporation acts.
That section eighteen hundred and eighty-nine of chapter one, title twenty-three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 1889. The legislative assemblies of the several Territories shall not grant private charters or special privileges, but they may, by general incorporation acts, permit persons to associate themselves together as bodies corporate for mining, banking, manufacturing, or other industrial pursuits, or the construction and operation of railroads, wagon-roads, canals, or irrigating-ditches, and the colonization and improvement of lands in connection therewith, or for colleges, seminaries, churches, libraries, or any benevolent, charitable, or scientific association”.
" Approved, March 3d, 1885.