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 78 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 31, 32, 33. 1870. uw Dlsmct °f before one justice of the peace only, either in said District or any State Columbia how. . . · may h.,,€g_;m. or Perritory of the United States, shall be held and deemed as valid and be made. effectual for all purposes, as though such acknowledgment had been made before two or more justices of the peace. Approved, March 25, 1870. Marek2S, 1870. CHAP. XXXII.-—An Act to ertend the Time for the C'ompIetion of the lateral Brcnmz ";{§bi"(§|f“K“ o the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, aut/tm·z'cez{ by the Act a nroned February _ /i/1, . // . . Vol. xiv. p. 887. et};/nteen hundred and sixty-seven, und to change the Location in tte City of PVaS/zington along the Bank of the Canal. Preamble. `Wnnmzns a charter was granted by an aet of Congress, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, giving to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company the privilege of constructing a lateral branch 0f their railroad into the District of Columbia and the city of Wasltin¤· MSW 187°» °h· ton; and whereas under the said act the time for the completion of said jo,,, p_ 16], lateral branch was within four years from the passage of the act, and as for supplemcn- the work on the line of the road within the city of Washington is very m`Y“°°' heavy and will consume a long time in its construction ; and whereas the work has already been delayed in submitting the plans and location to Congress for their approval : Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and ]House of Representatives of the United ti Sevfentlrsec- States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventh section of the pgslgyuc m` act to authorize the extension, construction, and use of a lateral branch 0f the Baltimore and Potomac railroad into and within the District of Time forcom- Columbia be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the time for the gmlgg g;££“l completion of the said lateral branch of the Baltimore and Potomac rnil~ ,,]_ road be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said company, if it shall so _ Line of road elect, is hereby authorized to adopt a line in the city of Washington from ¤¤,*l*°_°¤*>' °*` some point west of East Fourth Street, in the line designated in the act lh nshingmn. . . . 1869_,.,h_2_ of Congress approved March etghteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, Ante, p. 1. as passing along South K Street, thence crossing to and passing along the south bank of the carnal, to South Capitol Street, and thence northwestwurdly to Virginia Avenue, there intersecting and pausing along the line described in said act approved March eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as passing along Virginia Avenue nortlnvestwardly to the mterscction of South C and West Ninth Street. A1>r1t0vm1>, l\Iureh 25, 1870. March 25, 1870. CHAP. XXXIII. -An Act to incorporate the TVas/zfngton Mail Steamboat Company. Be it enacted  the Senate and House of ]£e,m~esen!atta·cs of the United Nwtgtiington States of America m Congress assembled, That Charles Spear, Paul C5‘l;w;:*;"aK;’0*;{ Stevens, `W. H. Tenney, Williztm L. `Wall, \Villiam H. Philp, George p.,,·md_ II. Plant, J. L. Savage, D. C. Forney, H. Kilbonrne, S. P. Brown, Alexander Ray,'A: H. Herr, John Pearson, and their associates and successors, or a majority of them, are hereby created and constituted a body poltttc and corporate, by the name and style of the \Vasl1ington Mail Steamboat Company. Capital stock. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall not be less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars nor I I U more than five hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of bm¤;;liZ}<l;:Llha— one hundred dollars each. And each corporator shall be individually mmm_ liable, during the ttme he is a stockholder, for all debts of the company, E the amount of hxs stock therein, and for one year after any transfer of e same. c0l’IeY:;s):f the Sttc. 3. And be it furtker enacted, That said company is authorized and ‘ ernpot·t·er%d tcifestablishdalnyl  a line or lines of steamers between the ci tes 0 as mgton an or ol and other ports.