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contained in this act, then [the] said corporation shall forfeit all right to an extension of charter.

. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be considered a public act; and so much and such parts of any act or acts heretofore passed in relation to said corporation as may be repugnant to this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed and annulled.

, May 25, 1838.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the charters of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Georgetown, the Bank of the Metropolis, Patriotic Bank of Washington, and Bank of Washington, in the city of Washington, and the Farmers’ Bank of Alexandria, and Bank of Potomac, in the town of Alexandria, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the fourth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty: Provided, The said banks, each for itself, shall conform to the following conditions:

First. To cease receiving or paying out all paper currency of less denomination than five dollars, on or before the day of the promulgation of this act.

Second. To redeem all their notes of the denomination of five dollars in gold or silver, from and after the first day of August, in the present year.

Third. To resume specie payments in full, on or before the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, or sooner, if the principal banks of Baltimore and Richmond should sooner resume specie payments in full.

, May 31, 1838.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the naval service, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, viz:

For the pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of seamen, one million three hundred and twelve thousand dollars;

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars;

For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars;

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million two hundred thousand dollars;

For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, seventy-four thousand dollars;

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, sixty-one thousand dollars;