Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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, extended 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, nevertheless, That Congress may at any time hereafter modify or repeal the same.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no suit or action depending in any court whatsoever, in which the said corporation is plaintiff or defendant, shall abate or be discontinued by reason of the expiration of the original charter of the said corporation, but the same shall continue and be prosecuted in all respects as if the said charter had not expired; and the president and directors who were in office at the time it expired, shall continue in office under and by virtue of this act, until others shall be duly chosen in their places.

Approved, February 26, 1849.