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 292 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 277, 278. 1866. successors, by the name and title aforesaid, shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any courts of justice, and before all and any judges, officers, or persons whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters, or demands whatsoever. Meetings, by- Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have I""- &°‘ power to hold stated meetings ; to establish and put into execution, alter or abolish such by-laws, rules, and regulations as to them shall seem most conducive to the interests of the society: Provided, That the same shall not be contrary to the laws of the United States. Corporation Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so “°:;° §:“° construed as to authorize the said corporation to issue any note, token,
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A<=¤ ¤¤¤y b• Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act may be altered or re- °‘l°°r°d’ &°' pealed at the pleasure of the Congress. Approved, July 27, 1866. July 27, 1866. CHAP. CCLXXVIII. —An Act nting Lands to aid in the Constructzim of a Rail- "'_""""‘ road and Telegraph Linejrom the Sllaates of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Cond. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Atlantiqnnd States of America in Congress assembled, That John B. Brown, Anson P. g:f;5;§“‘l;%‘;$_ Morrill, Samuel F. Hersey, William G. Crosby, Samuel E. Spring, Samporaiied.}, uel P. Dinsmore, of Maine; N. S. Upham, Frederick Smyth, Onslow C°FP°m°”· Stearns, S. G. Grifiin, William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire; T. W. Parke, H. H. Baxter, John Gregory Smith, A. P. Lyman, of Vermont; Walter S. Burges, William S. Slater, Stephen Harris, Thomas P. Shepard, of Rhode Island; William Merritt, Alexander H. Bullock, George L. Stearns, Genery Twitchell, Charles H. Warren, Chester W. Chapin, of Massachusetts; John Boyd, Robert C. Wetmore, John T. Wait, Cyrus Northrop, of Connecticut; Solon Humphreys, J. Bigler, Homer Ramsdell, Isaac H. Knox, John A. C. Gray, Daniel L. Ross, A. V. Stout, M. K. Jessup, R. E. Fenton, E. L. Fancher, J. C. Fremont, James Hoy, Jesse M. Bolles. Edward Gilbert, James P. Robinson, Oliver C. Billings, of New York; Charles Bachelor, John Edgar Thompson, Morton McMichael, T. Haskins Du Puy, Thomas A. Scott, Charles Riokettson, William Lyon, George W. Cass, Levi Parsons, of Pennsylvania; Charles Knap, J. L. N. Stratton, James B. Dayton, Robert F. Stockton, Alexander G. Cattell, A. W. Markley, of New Jersey; John W. Garrett, Charles J. M. Gwinn, Robert Fowler, Jacob Tome, Thomas M. Lanahan, of Maryland; Charles J. Dupont, Henry Ridgley, Andrew C. Gray, Nat. Smythers, of Delaware; Bellamy Storer, George B. Senter, lVilliam Baker, Samuel Galloway, David Tod, Charles Anderson, Bird B. Chapman, Edward Sturgis, Israel Dille, of Ohio; Edwin Peck, William D. Griswold, James P. Luse, Samuel E. Perkins, Conrad Baker, of Indiana; Richard J. Oglesby, N. B. Judd, Samuel A. Buckmaster, D. L. Phillips, L. P. Sanger, of Illinois; Eber B. Wai·d, Omar D. Congar, Nathaniel W. Brooks, Alexander H. Morrison, of Michigan; Z. G. Simmons, Alexander Mitchell, J. J. Williams, G. A. Thompson, J. J. R. Pease, John H. Hersey, of Wisconsin; Henry A. Smith, Sherman Finch, William Mitchell, R. F. Crowell, L. F. Hubbard, E. F. Drake, of Minnesota; Lyman Cook, Platt Smith, Jacob Butler, Henry I. Reid, Hoyt Sherman, of Iowa; William G. Brownlow, of `Tennessee; Thomas C. Fletcher, B. R. Bonner, John M. Richardson, Emil Pretorious, E. W. Fox, R. J. Mc- Elheny, Charles H. Howland, Madison Miller, George W. Fishback, T. J. Hubbard, George Knapp, Charles K. Dickson, A. G. Braun, G. L. Hewitt, P. A. Thompson, James W. Thomas, Charles E. Moss, Edward Walsh, A. R. Easton, Truman J. Horner, J. B. Eads, D. R. Garrison, W. A. Kayser, George P. Robinson, of Missouri; Thomas E. Bramlettc,