Volume 14
Public Law 39–XCVII
to amend the Charter of the Washington Gas-light Company.
Approved May 24, 1866
Statutory text
An Act
to amend the Charter of the Washington Gas-light Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the charter of the Washington
Charter of Washington Gas-light Company amended.
Gas-light Company be, and the same is hereby, amended in the third section by substituting the word “February” for “January.”
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company
Capital stock increased.
be, and the same is hereby, increased five hundred thousand dollars, subject to the same liability as is provided in the eleventh section of the original act of incorporation, approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
Approved, .