THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Ssss. I. Ch. 205, 206. 1854. 813 by any number, not lcss than one third in amount of shares of the shockholders, at which meeting members present, and representing a. majority of the whole capital stock, shall ba a. quorum for the transaction of business: and the stockholders at such meetings, or at any general annual meeting, where such majority of stock is represented, shall have full power to alter or repeal any by-law or regulation made by the president and directors, and may make new rules and by-laws, which shall be binding on the said president and directors : Provided, That the same be not contrary to the provisions of this acl:. Sec. 6. And he ii further enacted, That nothing in this act contained Taxation. shall be construed to exempt the property of said corporation from such taxation as similar property, belonging to any other individual or corporation, is subject to. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained gmkgng {or. shall be construed to authorize the said company to exercise banking bid<!¤¤- privileges, or to issue any note in the form of a bank note, or certificate payable to bearer. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That each of the stockholders in Stockholdm the said National Hotel Company of Washinmgten City shall be held liable gxé: in his or her individual capacity for all the debts and liabilities of the said company, however contracted or incurred, to be recovered by suit as other debts or liabilities, before the court or tribunal having jurisdiction of the msc. Sm. 9. And be it further enacted, That it may be lawful for Congress _ T}¤¤ Mt *1* hereafter to alter, amend, change, or repeal the foregoing act. APPROVED, August 3, 1854. Cnnr. CCV.—An Act jbr the Reliqf of HGH5am J MElhiney, E. P. Matthews, and Aug. 8, 1854. Lawrence Cribbm. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William J. McElhincy, Wm. g. McEl- E. P. Matthews, and Lawrence Cribbcn, shall bc, and they are hereby, A§ # respectively authorized to enter the portions of the southeast fractional qrgbbén, m-cg. quarter of fractional section ten, and the southwest fractional quarter of ycrnlly author fractional section eleven, west of the St. Charles Commons, in township Egg QHQQEQQEQ forty-six north, of range four east, in the district of lands subject to salc their possession, at St. Louis, Missouri, now in possession of each of them, upon pm- § §i€i ducing proof to the satisfaction of the land officcrs for said district, of the extent of their possessions, respectively, in said fractional sections, and paying therefor the minimum price of the public lands; and, upon yvmugmm such proof and payment being made, certificates and patents shall be *¤1¤$¤¤ °¤°f<>¥ issued therefor, as in other cases of the sale of public lands. Armovmn, Aug. 3, 1854. CHAP. CCVI.—An Act for t}n¢Rel$£ of Mrs. Helen Mackay, Whlow of the late Aug. 8, 1854. Colonel JETIOGS Mackay, Deputy rtermaster- General United States Army. . ·- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slatcs of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of six thousand $6!537,09 po five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and nine cents be paid to Mrs. g¤£¤$g i; * Helen Mackay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- cgmmlmong M priatcd, the same being allowance of commissions for disbursements of disbursements special appropriations by her late husband, Colonel Eneas Mackay, ; ; §)*;i!;f; prior to the thirticth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty- gpt,80’1838. eight. Armovmn, Aug. 3, 1854.
