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 426 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24, 25, 26. 1865. Balances to For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred and f°'°i8¤ °°“”m“· fifty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Foreign man For foreign mail transportation, two hundred and Hflsy thousand dollars. Jn, 30, 1365, Cnr. XXIV. —An Act to amend the Charter qthq “Washington Gas-Liglu Company," Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _Piiqe of gasin States of America in Omzgress assembled, That so much of the lacts of g"€b‘“€t°“¤ June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty, and July eleyen, mghteen 'lgéo 0h_ 2u_ hundred and sixty-two, as relate to the pmce er gas furmshed by the Vol.’xii. p. 107. “Washington Gas·Light Company," be, and the same are hereby, repealed ; 1862, cl;. 143. and the not incorporating the *‘Washiugton Gas-Light Company " is hereby v°l· ‘i‘·P* 53* so amended as to prohibit the said company from receiving, on and after ¥l58*i;h‘ 96{22 the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit II P. I of its stockholders, a greater price for gas than forty cents per hundred cubic feet, subject to a discount of ten per centum on all bills for gas furnished to tho general government, and five per centum on all bills for gas furnished to other consumers, if paid at the office of the company within seven days from the rendition thereof. APPROVED, January 30, 1865. —— ct to amend an Act entitled "An Act to inc crate the Metro i- C?;;`r;;R¢§f;§ng;yC}og1;a$y, in the District of G0lumbia," approved .]:5 first, eighteen {Zia- §17_’ ’ r an s -our. A""" p' 2m' Be it enacted by the Senate and fbuse of Representatives of the United Time for pom- States of America in Congress assembled, That section seventeen of the act B}";Q);§  to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, of the District of Co- ` lumbia, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the completion of their railroad line, except that part thereof between Seventeenth Street Proviso. and the Capitol, for one year from the passage of this act: Provided, however, That the line from Seventeenth Street and the Capitol be completed, equipped, and running, within thirty days from the passage of this act. APPROVED, January 30, 1865. Jan. 30, 1865. CHAP. XX VI.-—An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to amend and extend the  Charley of the Franklin Insurance O'0mpany,” approved second March, ezyhteen hundred V01.,vi. p. 104. Md ¢'¤"Z·/·¤0'¤- Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ch¤1jf¤¤‘<>f States of AmerZca in Congress assembled, That the act to amend and ex- §:glg::H£;¥;' tend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company, passed on the secextended thr ond day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is t“'**¤*Y >'°m· hereby, extended and continued in foree for the period of twenty years, from the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the time at whnch such arneudatory act expired; and that all proceedings had by Phe said Am iegalized. Franklm Insurance Company, and all legal rights accrued or aequnred, Amd all legal obligations entered into by said company between the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fiflcy-eight, and the date of this act be, and the same are hereby, made valid for all legal purposes. Increase of Sec. 2. And be ztfurther enacted, That the Franklyn Insurance Com- °“"*”·l “*”°k· puny are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to an amount not exceeding two hundred and {lily thousand dollars. APPROVED, January 30, 1865.
 * ¤¤¤P°m*·i°¤· APPROVED, January 28, 1865.