Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 636.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
August 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Chapman, from the Committee for the District of Columbia,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
Supplemental to the act entitled “An act to incorporate the
Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet
Company.”

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9 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the act entitled “An act to incorporate
the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam
Packet Company,” approved the third March, eighteen
hundred and twenty-nine, be, and the same hereby is, ex-
tended and continued in full force and effect for a further
period of twenty years, commencing with the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine: Provided

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14 nevertheless, That the said company shall not have au-
thority to hold other or more lands, tenements, or heredi-
taments, then may be necessary for wharves, warehouses,
and other purposes of commerce, and transportation of
passengers and freights.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Steam Packet Company,” approved the third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, be, and the same hereby is, ex- tended and continued in full force and effect for a further period of twenty years, commencing with the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine: Provided
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10 11 12 13 14	nevertheless, That the said company shall not have au- thority to hold other or more lands, tenements, or heredi- taments, then may be necessary for wharves, warehouses, and other purposes of commerce, and transportation of passengers and freights.