The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-06-04
AN ACT to amend tho usury iAss of tbe Djs.r:eS
 of Columbia

AN ACT to amend tho usury iAss of tbe issr:eS of Columbia. ! Be 1t enacted by the Senate aud Hou,z If l Representatives of the United States of l aer- l a in Congress asse enbIsd, That the rata of interest upon jud anis or deereeF, and upon the lean or forbearance of any money. goods, or things iu ec;ion shall continue 10 bs six dollars upon one hundred dollars for one year, and after thas rate for greater or less sun, or for logger or shorter time, except as here matter provided.
 SEC. 2 And he 1t fnrihsr enacted, Thss ia all contracts hereafter 70 be made it shall be lawful for the parties to stipulate oE agree h writing that the rate Of ten per cent. per an. Rum, or any less sun, Of interest shsii be taken and paid upon every oRe hundred dollars Of money loaned, or in any manuer due ard ou- ing irom sny person or corporation in ths dis trict
 SEC 8 And be it further enacted, That it any person Or corporation in this Dlstrict shall contract to receive q greater rate ofin> terest than ten per cent upon any contract iD writing, CT six per cent upon any verbal cons tract, such pc son or corporation shall forfeit the whole ot said interest so contracted ;o be received, and shall be entitled only 10 recover the principal sum d1s to such per59n O. cor poration.
 SEC 4 ARd be it further enacted, That f any person or corporation within the district of Columbia shall directly CT indirectly fake os receiue any greater amount of interest than isprOYida3 for in this act, upon any contract or agreement whatever, 1t shall be lawfu! iOV the person or hls personal representative or the corporation paying the same, to sus for ana recover all the interest paid on such contract or agreement from the per59n or bis personal representatives, or from the corporation rfcei7~ ing such unlawful interest Provided hat the suit to recover back such interest shall ba brought within enc year after such ualaW'u ul interest shall be pald or taken,
 SEC ,. And be it further enacted, That nO- thing in this act contained shall be construed to change the general laws in force in relation to banking associations organizad under the act to provide 2 national currency secured bg a pledge of United States bonds and to provide for the circulation and redemption tsereot ap- proved June three, eighteen hundred and s!xtJ- four.
 Approved, April 22, 810. AN ACT to authorize the city of BlG4Io, New
 York to 0Onstru ct tunneiunder NiGgaTs river,
 and to erect and mGintain an inlet pier there-
 from.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of of thh United States of Amer ca in Congress sssambled, That 1t sAall and nay be lawful for the city of Buffalo, in the 5 ate of New York, to construct and msintoiu . tunnel under Black Rock Harbor and Ai~ agara river, extending not mora than Gaur hun red feat outside of Bird Island pier. sud 10 greet and maintain an inlet pier lhersfrom, said nct pier to oe located uU. more than tour huas ired feet ouqida Of said Bird Island pier.
 Approved, April 20. l976
 AN ACT declaring the construction Of "AH
 act to incorpor ate th National Theological Iu-
 stitute," approved May tenth, eigh teen huh=
 dred and sixty six, and also, "An act Co amend
 an act entitled An act to incorporate the Na~
 tional Theological Institute, and to define and
 extend the powers Of the same spPFo5 od
 March second, eighteea hundred and sixty
 seven.
 Whereas an acs 10 incorporate the National Tbeoloric.l Institute, approved May ejgtheeu hundred end sixty-eix, and also an act tO define aud extend the powers of the same, approved March second, eighteen hundred aud siSty-ee- ven. hasrhave1 been nliscoustrued by an ats ,eront to remove the seat of it's operations to dist mt locality, in direct contravetion Of said acts and whereas the folowing-namsd persons, Joseph c, Lewis, Edmund Turner, John $. PoIer' Charles T. Morse, William, T. Johnson, Ifndsay Muse, William F. Nelson, George r, Clement Robinson A. Condron. & AI.xander, |. IL Hutchines, ". T. Niswal, s |. Criszey, continue to exercise taelr tunc- doas as the executive committee, by the sue thoritv of acid corporations at it's Eeat of op- era,ions within tha said District of Columbia, according to tue intention of said sets Non, therefore.
 Be 1t enacted by tie Senets ni House of Representatives of the Uniten States of Amer ics in Congress assembled that the seat of operation of the act approved May tenth, eight.sDn hundred and sixiy.siZ, which act was amended and extended by the set of March second, eighteen hundred aud sixty-seven, shall bs, and the same ia hereby, located within the city of Washington, in the DiItrict of Co lumbia: Provided, That nothing herein con tained shall be so coastrue as to prevent sad corporation fror. establishing such branches without the limits of said District as may De row authorized by lar
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