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 FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 28, 29, 30. 1881. 32] For continuing breastheight wall from Plain to South Wharf, five Breast-1x<>ight hundred dollars.Well- For completing repairing roof of cadet-barracks, two thousand two Cadet barracks. hundred and fifty-five dollars. For completion of main building and one wing for the new hospital New cadet hosfor cadets, eleven thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and 1>il¤¤1· eighty-four cents. 1 For continuing addition to cadetbarracks, twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, January 27, 1881. CHAP. 29.-An act to amend section five hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Stat- J lm. 28, 1881. utcs relating to the District of Columbia. ·—·—-—1—·-—— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section five hundred and R- S- 553. D- C-, fifty-three of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia ”#"‘°“‘l°d· be, and is hereby, amended by inserting the word “telephonc" after the "'1‘c1cph<>uc." word " transportation ", so as to read as follows: " Sec. 553. Any three or more persons who desire to form a company for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacturing, agricultural, mining, mechanical, insurance, mercantile, transportation, telephone, or marketing business, in the District, or savings bank therein, may make, sign, and acknowledge, before some oincer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and file in the office of recorder of deeds, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated ". Approved, January 28, 1881. CHAP. 30.-An act for the relief of Brigadier-General and Brevet Major~General Ed- Jan, 28, 188], ward O. C. Ord, United States Army. ————————— Whereas the President did, by virtue of the discretionary power vested 1c._s. 1244. in him by section twelve hundred and forty-tour, Revised Statutes, retire _B*`*8**df”i3G°¤ Brigadier·General and Brevet Major-General Edward O. C. Ord, United §,*;}0,_§f,,cmf°,;Y§Y States Army from active service, to take effect the sixth day of Decem- ww; O_ g_ Ord, ber eighteen hundred and eighty; and United States Whereas at the date of his being retired from active service the said A’m5'· Edward O. O. Ord had served his country in the Army honorably, eiiiciently, and continuously for more than forty years, as shown by his official military record; and Whereas at the date of his retirement the said Edward 0. C. Ord held the brevet rank of major-general in the Regular Army, conferred upon 'him by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and was commissioned as such to take eiieot March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive, for gallant and ineritorious services; and Whereas at the date of the order retiring said Edward O. C. Ord from active service he was in command of the Military Department of Texas, where his services were of great importance and value, and especially in bringing comparative peace to a disturbed frontier; and which command was greater than a division of the Army: Therefore,. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to place Brigadier-Geiieral and Brevet Major-Gen Placed on the eral Edward O. C. Ord on the retired-list of major-generals, according f°m°d h°*· to his brevet rank, with the pay and emolumeuts of a major-general of the United States Army on the retired list. Approved, January 28, 1881. xxi-21