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 4 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. L Cns. 9, 19, 20. 1c8b. by a vote of shareholders owning two-thirds of the stock of such bank shall accept the new name by resolutions of the board, and cause a copy of such resolutions, duly authenticated, to be tiled with the Comptroller Promo. of the Currency: Provided, That such acceptance be made within six months after the passage of this act. _ _ _ _ _ _ Debt,) Bw_, to Sec. 2. That all debts, demand, liabilities, rights, privileges, and powrcucw change. ers of the Merchants’ National Bank of Little Rock shall devolve upon and inure to the First National Bank of Little Bock whenever such change of name is effected. Approved, February 15, 1886. Mar. 13, 1886, CHAP. 19.-An act to provide for an American remster for tho steamship Caroline --——¥—-—- Miller, of Baltimore, Maryland. - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United American regis- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Navi- ¤¤¤‘ W fo M i g ¤ gation is hereby authorized and directed to cause the foreign-built steam- C “ ’° ° ship Caroline Miller, owned at the port of Baltimore, State of Maryland, ` by F. C. Miller, an American citizen, and rebuilt by him at Baltimore, · to be registered as a vessel of the United States. Inspection. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to authorize and direct the inspection of said steamvessel, steam-boiler, steam-pipes, and the appurtenances of said boiler, ‘ and cause to be granted the proper and usual certificate issued to steamvessels of the merchant marine, without reference to the fact that said steam-boiler, steam—pipes, and appurtenances were not constructed pursuant to the laws of the United States, and were not constructed of. iron stamped pursuant to said laws; and the tests to be applied on the inspection of said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances will be the same, in all respects as to strength and safety, as are required in the inspection of boilers constructed in the United States for marine purposes, save that the fact that said boiler, steam-pipes, and appurtenances not being constructed pursuant to the requirements of the laws of the United States, and are of unstamped iron, shall not be an obstacle to the granting of the usual certificate if said boiler, steampipes, and appurtenances are found to be of suificient strength and sa ety. Approved March 13, 1886. Mug 16, Iggy CHAP. 20.-1An act to provide for a building for the use of the Federal courts, post-office, and internal-revenue and other civil offices, and s United States jail, in the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Fm., Smith Ark States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the pumgc i,¤;;d;,,g_ Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be _ constructed at Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, on block five S‘°°· hundred and fourteen, as the same is described on the map of the reserve addition to the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, as surveyed by George H. Lyman, and approved by the Interior Department Novem. ber eighth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and which block was heretofore reserved, selected, and set apart for that purpose a suitable building, with tire-proof vaults extending to each story fort the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office, and internalrevenue and other Government offices; and for this purpose there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise Am,,,,1,,,,m,m_ appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall cause i’l¤¤¤· proper plans and estimates to be made so that no expenditure shall be