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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 41, 42. 1857. 495 and countgrsigned by-the secretary; and no promissory note or obligation, except contracts of insurance, shall be given without. the previous votc of the board of directors; and no sale or transfer of stock or property shall Transfer of be made, nor any bond or mortgage discharged, except in pursuance of a. Shmsvote of the board of directors. S20. 12. And be it further enacicd, That the president and directory Other memmay call a general meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relating L‘;·"i;“h£ f “°°k' to the affairs of the company, giving at least two wcckaf notice thereof in the newspapers published in the city of Washington; and any number of stockholders who, together, shall be proprietors of five hundred shares of stock, may at any time apply to the president and directors to call a. general meeting of the stockholders for any purpose relating no the affairs of the company; and if the president and directors shall refuse to call such meeting, the said stockholders, proprietors of not less than five hundred shares of stock, shall have power to call a. general meeting of the stockholders, giving at least two wccks notice in the newspapers aforesaid, spccifyiug in such notice the object of the meeting. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That should it so happen, from any Eg-ect of mm. cause whatsoever, that the annual election of directors should not take election of direcplace in any year on the day hcrciubcfbrc mentioned for that purpose, zzz2g;;? ’"‘“““1 this company shall not for that reason be dissolved; but such election may be lawfhlly held on such convenient day thereafter as may, for that purpose, be Hxed 011 by the president and directors, they causing ten days’ notice thereof to be given in one or more newspapers published in tho city of Washington. S1·:c. 14. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be  Nothing to be so construed as to authorize the company to issue any note, token, device, ;’;E°)f1 ‘“ ““' scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as a. currency.  S20. 15. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect on when this Mz the Erst day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, except so far as it SMU *¤k€ <*fY°°* provides for a notice of the first election of directors, in the third section of this act, which shall go into operation two weeks prior to said first of June, and this act shall continue and be in force until the iirst day of  J una, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That it. shall be lawful for Congress, This acc may at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal this act. E; £1‘;‘§“d"d °' A1>1>R0vm:•, February 7, 1857. P Cru?. XLI.-—-An Ast or the Rdie o the ul R resentatives 0 Edmund H Dk abe, ., .  .Assig £e{qf Aézgine       "———··—· Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal representatives E H_ Mc(, p,,, of Edmund H. McCabe, assignee of Antoine Sculard, be and they are ¤¤§ig¤¤¤ of A¤· hereby authorized to enter, of the public lands of the United States g2g0d23E1a:?' subject to entry, at not exceeding one dollar and twenty-dvc cents per enter certain acre, such quantity of land as has been sold by the United States within laudthe boundaries of the claim of Antoine Soulard, confixmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, at January term, eighteen hundred and thirty- six, from the time of filing the petition on which said confirmation was made to the issue of the patent under such coniirmatiou, and that a. patent or patents shall issue therefor. APPROVED, February 7, 1857. Ch.u>. XLII.—An Act for the Relief of Mary Reeszlle. Feb. 7, 1857. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the