Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-22


equal number Of votes the directors ONCE at the time
OF such election shall BY plurality Of votes given by
ballot, determine which the persons having an equal
number Of votes shall be director directors so &c 70
complete the whole number to be chosen the dreo
tors chosen shall, may be thereafter pro-
oeed to elect by ballot Of their number or one Of
vacancy shall happen in the said board Of president and
directors the shall be lled up by the remaining d
oy plurality Of votes until the next annual cleo
uon frov'ded alDays That the president Of the said
habitants Of the said town
SEQ 4 And Dc further enacted, That David English
Robert J.. Dodge Richard Cruikshank William NJ Fitz
hugh, Richard Petit VIM. f. Seymour, Adolphus r.
Pickre and William Buckne shall be the first directors
OF the said company the first named of whom shall be
their president and shall hold their offices until the rs
four, and until others are chosen in their places
Sec 5. And 6s further enacted That Il case IL shall
happen any time that election for directors shall not
take on the day appointed by this for that pur-
pose the said corporation shall for that cause or for
any be deemed to be dissolved but il shall and
may be lawful to hold election directors on apy
other day. in such manner shall be provided for by the
bylaws Of the said corporation.
Sec. 6. And be further enacted, That 1t shall and
may be lawful for the directors majority Of them TO
require payment Of the subscriptions to the capital stock
tons they, majority Of them shall deem st. under
the penalty Of FORGETTING any all previous payment or
payments thereon Provided Notice of the instalment
required to be paid shall have been published at least
fourteen days in Of the newspapers printed
and published in the said town before the day appointed
fer the payment thereof
Sec. Z And be further enacted That the president and
directors shall have full power and authority to manufsc-
ture, make, and sell gas to be made Of coal oil tar
peat PITCH tuxpentne other material and to be used
for the purpose Of lighting the city Of Georgetown or the
streets thereof, and any buildings manufactures or
houses therein contained and nate and to lay pipes for
the purpose of gas in any of the lanes
or alleys Of the said city Provided however That the
said company shall 80 conduct the manufacture Of gas as
In
that the said pipes shall be laid subject to such cond
tons and in compliance with such regulations as the
Corporation OF Georgetown aforesaid may from time to
time prescribe And provided, further That the right to
erect and put up any buildings works. apparatus for
The manufacture Of gas shall be subject to such erms
conditions, restrictions and regulations the said Cor
poraton Of Georgetown may from time to time prescribe
or direct.
Sec. g. And Be further enacted That if any person or
persons shall wifuy do to be DONE any act
acts whatsoever whereby the works Of the said company
or any pipe conduit plug, COCK reservoir any engine
machine or structure any matter thing apperain-
ing to the same shall be stopped obsructed, impaired
Weakened injured or destroyed the person persons
offending shall forfeit and pay the said Corporation
double the Of the damage sustained by Of
such offence injury, to be recovered in the Of
said Corporation with cost of suit in any action of debt
or on the case to be brought in any court having cogn
zance thereof.
Sec. g. And Be further enacted That nothing in this
act shall be construed to prevent any person PERSONS
any incorporated company hereafter to be created by
suing the business specified in the seventh section Of this
and that it shall be lawful for Congress any time
hereafter to alter, amend, or repeal this act.
Sec. 10. And be- further enacted That nothing in this
act contained shall be construed authorize the said
Georgetown Gasght Company to make, ISSUE put in
circulation any BILL draft check, order promissory note,
change ticket any thing else promising agreeing to
pay money intended to circulate money the ten
dency Of which shall be to circulate money
and the violation Of any of the provisions Of
this section shall be forfeiture Of the charter hereby
md uhoD ho fn
the same to fine Of Fifty dollars.
Sec. H. And be IL further enacted, That each of the
stockholders in the Georgetown Gasght Company shall
held liable in his or her individual capacity for all the
debts and liabilities Of the said company however
traced incurred to be recovered by suit other
debts liabilities, before the court tribunal having
jurisdiction of the case.
Sec. IL And further enacted, That all right granted
to the Washington Gasght Company by act entitled
An act to amend entitled An incorporate
the Washington Gasght Company approved July eight,
cond eighteen hundred and fifty two" to lay gas mains
or pipes in the city Of Georgetown, be and the same is
hereby repealed Approved July 20, 1854.
[PuBLIo-No. AL
AN ACT regulating the time Of holding the sessions Of
the district and circuit courts Of the United States in
the eastern district of Louisiana.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of REPRESENTATIVES
Of the United States of America in Congress assembled That
there shall hereafter be annually only three stated ses
sions Of the district court Of the United States for the
06oeOrh Va WHICH Sua DC ned At new
Orleans on the third Mondays of November February
and May: Provided That the Judge Of said court shall be
and he is hereby authorized adjourn any stated ses
sion to any time times previous the ses
sion Of said district whenever he may deem it ex
pedient.
Sec 2. And be further enacted That the fall term of
the circuit court Of the United States for the eastern dis
trict of Louisiana shall hereafter be held on the first
Monday Of November in each year instead of the third
Monday Of December, IS heretofore provided by law.
Approved, July 20, 1854.
[REsoLuTIoN-PUBLIc, No. Is.
RESOLUTION providing for the distribution Of the
works Of Thomas Jefferson.
Resolped By the Senate and House Of Representatives Of the
United States of America Congress assembled That the
Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk Of the House Of
Representatives be and they hereby directed to dis
tribute, by mail otherwise the works now publishing
by authority Of Congress known the works Of Thomas
Jefferson, in the following to wit To the Pres
dent of the United States copy to the libraries Of the
derest Departments Of the Postmaster General and the
Attorney General copy; to each member of the pre-
sent Senate and House Of Representatives copy
the Office Of the Secretary Of the Senate Ave copes to
the Library of the House Of Representatives copies
to the Library Of Congress six copies the libraries Of
the States and Territories of the Union each copy to
the Smithsonian Institution the Military Academy and
the Naval School at Annapolis each one copy to the
Joint Committee the Library for the purpose Of inter-
national exchange, twelve copies to such colleges and
literary and scientific institutions associations shall
be designated by the present Committee the Library
three hundred copies. [Approved, July 20, 1864.
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