The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-30
OFFICIAL.


tors may at their option commence suit for tho
ecover against the holder of said stock for the amount
the instalment proportion SO unpaid Proufocd, Tha
no stakeholder subscriber shall be permitted to vote
any election for directors at any general or specia
meeting Of the company, whose shares any nstalnent
or arreages may be due more than fifteen days previou
| thereto -.4L.t -5t -
SEC. s. And be ii further enacted That tho presiden
and directors for the time being shall have power TO
dain establish and put in execution such rules regus
TONS ordinances and bylaws as they may deem essena
for the well government of the institution not contrar,
to the laws and Constitution of the United States or
this act and generally to do and perform NIL nets matters
and things which corporation may lawfully do
SEC. g. And be ii further enacted, That the president
and directors are hereby empowered and fully authorized
on behalf of the company, to make insurance against
losses by fire any house, building tenement manufac
tories mills, other buildings goods wares chattes
and effects of all kinds therein otherwise; upon grain
produce and implements, and upon vessels building on
the stocks In port Mt moorings; and generally upon
all and every sort and description of property whatever
kind soeyer on land or waters and to make execute per
feet and conclude so many contracts bargains, agree
ments policies, aud other instruments the nature
the case shall or may require; and all such instruments
bargains contracts policies agreements shall be In
print or writing and shall be signed by the president and
secretary or such other persons tho managers may a
point for such purpose and shall be under the seal Of the
company Portded, That said president and directors
may at their option and discretion, make insurance on
such terms and conditions to them may appear equ
able reserving the premiums appropriatng and re-
turning such portions thereof to the insured may to
them appear conducive the interest of the company and
the insured in such manner and ON such conditions
may appear TO them just and proper. -.s.l a..
SEC And be IL Further enacted, That the president
and directors shall the third Monday in June of each
and every year. divide much of the profits of said com.
any as to them may appear advisable first deductng all
expenses and pay the to the respective stockholders
or their agents duly empowered in ten days thereafter
but the money received premiums upon risks which
main outstanding and undetermined at the time of de-
carng such dividend shall not then be considered as part
or the profits and If the capital stock paid in shall be
lessened by losses subsequent dividend shall DO made
or declared until equal to said dminution shall
have been added to the capital stock.
Sec And be further enacted, That the stock of said
company shall DO transferred the books of the company
direct. -
SEC g And Be Il further enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be construed makingt perpetual but Congress
may at any time alter amend, repeal the same.
Approved, February ii, 1865
ACT for the Relief of Collectors and Surveyors of b
,,rrtf.f . Customs in certain cases. MD
Be enacted by the Senate and House of
Of the Uated States Of America in Congress assembled
That in all which any collector or surveyor NJ tbe
customs has paid or accounted for is charged with
duties aceruing under the Jon resolution TO increase
temporarily the duties imports" approved April twenty
ninth eighteen hundred and four and in which the
Secretary Of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the col
lection OF the said duties omitted by such collector or
surveyor for the reason that he not informed of the
passage OF said resolution when said duties accrued the
said Secretary be- and he is hereby authorized undersuch
rules as o may prescribe to remit refund as the case
may require such duties to such collector or surveyor
NAPPio'eo, nooiuly ~, looo' -'
ANAor to authorize the of Ocean Mail Steam
ship Service between the United States and China.
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives
ne United States Of America in Cbagess assembled
That the Posastereneral be- and he is hereby author
zed 70 invite proposals. by public advertisement for the
eriod OF sixty days IN one or more newspapers published
the cities OF Washington, New York, Philadelphia
session and San Francisco respectively for
eryce between the port of San Francisco in the United
states and some port or ports in the Chinese Empire
st HonoInu in du-eh
u more ports in Japan by OF monthly line of
lsciass American seagoing steamships to DO Of no less
man three thousand tons burden EACH and of sufficient
number to perform twelve round trips per between
aid ports and to contract with the bid
Ter Tor said service for term of more than ten years
Q commence from the day the first steamship Of the pro-
)osed line SD Ill deprt from the port oil San Francisco
With the mails for China Provided That no bid shall be
considered which shall amount to than five hundred
thousand dollars for the twelve round trips per annum,
Tor unless the same is from ctecn citizens of the
United States and accompanied by offer of good aud
ucient suretes also cizens OF the United Siaes for
he faithful performance OF such contract.
SEC. Aaa Be ii further enacted, That any contract
Which the Postnastereueral may execute, under the
minority Of this act shall go into effect before the
rst day OF January ono thousand eight hundred and
ixysoven and shall in addition the usual stpulatons
ocean malBteamshp contracts provide that the steam
hs accepted for the service shall BIO constructed of the
Get material and after approved models with all the
,odern Improvements adapted to going steamships Of
ho hrstcass, and shall DO subject to inspection and sur
oy an experienced naval constructor to be detaedfor
w tuS Of the Navy, whose
nall be nado to the That the govern
lent OF the United States shall DO entitled to have trans
ofted iree OF expense, on each aud every steamer,
ailagent to take charge of andarrange the
whom suitable accommodations for that purpose shall
ass6hod That in case of failure from any cause to
priorm any OF tho regular monthly voyages stipulated
IN Inc contract pro rata shall be made from
~ compensation on account OF sueh omitted voyage Or
'yages. That suitable fines and penalties may be i'm.
'sed for delays and irregularities in the performance of
&c service, and that the Postmaster-Genera shall have
in
is being nnderet or assigned to any other party.
Approved, February II, 1866
Aor supplementary to an Act approved July fourteen
eighteen hundred and entitled An Act To es
tabiish certain Post-Roads" .
BE 1t enacted BY the Satc and House Of Representatives
me ot.ted etates Q tnertco IN Congress assembled That
act OF Congress approved July fourteen eighteen bnn
~ and sxty-two, entitled Gan to establish certain
stfoads shall be- aud the same is hereby, SO amended
70 antnorze the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
n.y. and the Jetiersonve RaiirNsd Company (stockho
IN the Louisville Bridge Company to construct rail
I'd bridge over the Ohio River ut the head of he falls of
ONO subject to all provisions of said act Pored
at the SAID bridge may be constructed height not
IMAM nityslx feet above lowwater mark and with Il
rec draws sufficient to pass the largest boats NAVIGATING
Ohio River, the Indiana chute one over tbe
ddle chute and ono over the canal Provided That the d
ms OF said bridge shall not be less than two hundred
iorty feet except over the Indiana and middle chute
the canal SAID bridge shall be constructed with draws
one hundred and fifty feet wide each side of the pivot
over the Indiana and middle chntes and ninety feet
lie over the cana and pr0piaod further That said al
age and draws shall be so constructed to inter Il
pit the navigation of the Ohio River. I u -
Sec 2 And be further enacted That tho bridge crect n
under the provisions OF this act shall be lawful struc
., and shall DO recognized and known as postroute
Approved, February II, 1865. ua -,
ACT to establish Bridge across the Ohio River at Gin
,sa .cnnati, Ohio a PostRoad, c.
Be enacted by DC Senate and House of Representatives
ne uld Sdts OF Amertcd IN Congress assembled That
bridge across the Ohio River at Cincinnati in the State
Ohio, and ut Covngton, in the State of Kentucky is
ely declared to be- when completed In accordance with 81
laws Of the States of Ohio and kentucky a Lawful g
snre and postroad for the conveyance of the mails Of 8
United States. ~ ~. - - .-7"T-r- | oil
approved, February II, 1865. -. Of
ACT to extinguish the Indian Title to Lands in the ."
efrtoy oil Utah suitable for agricultural and mineral
urposes. r f.-If ~ -. No W :
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives n
he United States Of Amecd in Congress assembled That M
President OF the United States be- and he IL hereby II"
,orzed by and with the advice and consent of the Sem
to enter into treaties with the various tribes of Indians
tab Territory upon such terms may be deemed =,
to said Indians and beneficial to the government of o
United States: Irorided That such treaties shall mo-
for the absolute surrender to the United States NV W
Indians, OF their possessory right to all the agricult W
and mineral lands in said Territory except such agricul
- f,r saiJ inJiars. InJ $500 lor reserva, fix
reservations shall be selected at points as remote as w
be practicable from the present settlements In Utah
rltory. ~
&C. q And be further enacted That in agreeing with pr
Indians upon the amounts to be paid to them under
provisions Of the treaties to be negotiated In
his act shall DO taken to obtain from the Indians
he greatest possible extent their consent receive for
payments agricultural implements stock and other
full articles, rather than money
g. And be il further enacted That for the purpose ro
regulating said treaties and carrying ont the provisions hi