Chapter 5. to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia,” approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two
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CHAP. 5.— An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia,” approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.February 9, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Amendments to incorporation law. Vol. 22, p. 67. That section one of the act entitled “An act to amend the general incorporation law of the District of Columbia,” approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding, after the words “or for the purpose of insuring title to real estate,” the words “or for the purpose of carrying on fire insurance”; so as to read:
" “That the five hundred and fifty-third section of the Revised StatutesR. S. D. C., sec. 553, p. 67, amended. Title and tire insurance companies. 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 or for the purpose of carrying on fire insurance.” " Sec. 2. That section two of said act be, and the same is hereby,Vol. 22, p. 67. amended by adding, after the words “or for the purpose of insuring titles to real estate”, the words “or for the purpose of carrying on fire insurance”; so as to read:
" “Sec. 2. That any company heretofore formed, agreeably to the aforesaidCharters may be made perpetual. section of the said Revised Statutes, for the purpose of insuring titles to real estate or for the purpose of carrying on fire insurance may become perpetual on filing in the office of the recorder of deeds of the 3 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. " Sec. 3. Congress may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act.Amendment.
Approved, February 9, 1892.