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THIB/DY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. HT. Ch. 71, 72, 73. 1863. 709 shall be considered as public documents, and entitled to be frankcd as Weight ofpacksuch ; and except also seeds, cuttings, roots, and scions, the weight of the *8* °f’°°“- packages of which may be fixed by regulation of the Postmaster-Gem eral. Sec. 43. And be it further enacted, That. all publishers of periodicals, _ P¤l>li¤h¤¤`¤ ¤¤¤>' magazines, and newspapers which shall not exceed sixteen ounces in ;:°:;;€”§§’ fm weight shall be allowed to interchange their publications reciprocally free l of postage: Provided, That such interchange shall be confined to si single copy of each publication. Sec. 44. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force and When ue: to take effect from and after the thirticth day of June, eighteen hundred and “‘k° °“`°°‘· sixty-three. S20. 45. And be it fuzdher enacted, That all acts and parts of acts Repening inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. °l°“¤°· AJ·r120v1s1>, March 3, 1863. CHA!. LXXII. —An Act to dzka mus 0 the twenty-si:rth iam 0 the Act 0 the - _ islative Assembly of the lgvitaryfq/' Mvadg, and?;:;-¢cthw`fl’urp0ses.f by Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section twenty-six of un Lew ¤fNev¤d¤ act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada entitled *‘ An £°";g;'%r;i§g;g* act to provide for the formation of corporations for certain purposes? ap- d;§¤pp,·%ved_ proved December twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said section being as follows: “Section 26. All corporations heretofore formed under the provisions of acts of incorporation in other States or Territories, and holding or owning property within this Territory of such character as specified in section first of this act, and managed by a board or boards of trustees or directors, and having their principal place of business outside the limits of this Territory, are hereby required to remove their places of business, principal offices, books, and papers, heretofore kept, or necessary for the transaction of such business, to some point to be designated by said. corporation, within the limits of this Territory, within six months afloer the passage of this act., or otherwise such corporation or corporations shall be disregarded in law as a. corporation, and the corporators or stockholders thereof be treated as tenants in common, or joint owners of such property so owned or held within this Territory. Any corporation, by filing and recording its certificate of incorporation, or a certified copy thereof, with the secretary of the Territory, and with the clerk of the county in which such corporation may locate as the principal place of business, and fully complying with all the provisions of this act, shall bc deemed sufficient to entitle such corporation to all the rights and privileges under the provisions of this act," be and the same is hereby disapproved, and the same is hereby annulled and made void. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all incorporated companies, Coxorationsiu duly organized within any state or territory of the United States, may ““‘“Y ““°• sue and be sued, plead and be implemded, in the several courts of the*Territory of N cvadu, anything in the laws of said Territory to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED, March 3, 1863. CHAP. LXXIII.—-An Act to provide Ways and Means jbr the Support of the G0v· jigrch 3» ernment. Be it enacted the Senate and House o Re resmtatives of Me United TM S“’°“’·"Y States of Amerie;] in Odngress assembled, {hat the Secretary of the Treas- ggrrx-$$:3 wg ury bc, and he is hereby, authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the $$00.900.000 d credit of the United States, a. sum not exceeding three hundred millions ?§0l)h6%{336' °'" of dollars for the current fiscal year, and six hundred millions for the te; tim tin:.