United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 82
Chap. LXXXII.—An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Jurisdiction extended to as to include Little Falls bridge. That the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown is hereby extended so as to include the bridge lately constructed by the said corporation across the river Potomac, at the Little Falls, and the site of said bridge and premises appertaining to said site; and that, as often and as long as said bridge shall hereafter, from any cause, be impassable,A ferry may be established. it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of land on both sides of said river, through which the ferry road to connect with the Falls Bridge turnpike must necessarily pass, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and keep a ferry, at any rate of ferriage not exceeding the tolls which the Georgetown Bridge Company were heretofore authorized to charge on their bridge.
Powers of the corporation of Georgetown extended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Corproation of Georgetown, in addition to its present chartered powers, shall have full power and authority to provide for licensing, taxing, and regulating, within its corporate limits, all traders, retailers, pawnbrokers, and to tax venders of lottery tickets, money changers, hawkers and pedlers.
Approved, July 27, 1842.