Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 18 Part 3.djvu/307

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

._ EORTIQTHIBD CONGRESS} Sass I. UH. 478, 479, 480. 1874. 277 certain "land at Fort ·Hamilton,New York, consisting of about twenty- I ` one acres, as a site for additional batteries, and conveyedto the United States by deed of Julia Delaplaine, of September ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which said deed has been pronounced by the "At-

 by opinion of Novemhertwenty-second, eighteen hundred

and skty-‘two,_to vest a good and valid title in the ·United.States,'and upon which said land the said batteries have been duly constructed, be, aud. the same hereby -is, confirmed. ‘ ‘ · 4 V · V Approved,,June 23, 1874. — _ A ‘ ‘ __ . , - · · CHAP. 419.5-An act to authorize the Farmers National Bank of Greensburgb, Ponng June 23, 1874. sylvaniu, to change its location and name.` . ‘ ‘i"‘_""*"‘* Be it enacted by the-Senate and House of Representatives o_f_tIw United . ‘ ‘ States of Amcrkq, in Congress assembled, That whenever the stockholders F¤rm¤r¤ N¤ti<>¤¤1 of the Farmers National Bank of Greensbnrgh, in the county of West f“°lj; °f G ‘”,‘j°“ “‘ moreland, and State of Pennsylvania, at a meeting called for that pur- mlgsad. mg pig; pose, shall, by annanimous vote, determine to remove the said bank`to burgb, Penn. the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of.Allegheny and said State, the~ president and the cashier shall execute a certificate, under the corporate ‘ seal of the bank, specifying such determination, and shall cause the · ` same to be recorded in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency,. . _ ‘ and thereupon such change of location shall become effectual and valid. - — Sec. 2. That when such change shall have been made as above pro- N sm 6 e, 0 '1, 0 vided, the name of said bank shall be changed to The Fifth National changed to F 1 rt n Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and all debts, demands, liabilities, ¥QQ’Q)°”* hB°¤k °¥ rights and powers belonging to the said Farmers’ National Bank of ’R§’g§f§ ,,;,,,1 liw Greensburgh shall devolve upon and inure to The Filth ,National Bunk bilitieg unemmgea. of Pittsburgh; and all actions pending by or against said Farmers’ i National Bank of Groensbnrgh may be prosecuted by oragaiust said Fifth National Bank of Pittsburgh in the same manner and with the same effect as if such change of location and name had not been made. IXE X P ° n ¤ ° ¤ °f Provided, That all expenses incident to the proposed change including §y“,';,§§]:’_° b° b°"'° engraving. shall, be borne and paid by said bank ` Sec. 3. That as soon as.suoh.change of name and location shall have Notice or change been made, public notice thereof shall be given bypublication in one *° ’°° P“’°l*°*}°‘l· or more weekly newspapers in the 'saidcouuty of Westmoreland, in said State of Pennsylvania, for four successive weeks. _ _‘ Approved, June 23, 1874. . · V '· CHAP. 480.—~An not regulating gas-works. _ _ · Juno 23, 1874. Be it enacted. by the Senate and House of Represevitatires of the United ‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after thethirtieth Emqdurd of illuday of June, eighteen hundred and seventyafour, the illuminating power Pg *5*1*; of the gasfurnished by any gas-light c0mp¤·¤ZY,p01”S0¤, 0F P<’>¥'S0¤¤» ill UW immiot 4% Colum- District of Columbia, shall be equal to sixteen candles by the Bunsen bla. photometer, using the English parliamentary standard Argand-burner, _ » having fifteen holes anda seven-inch chimney, consuming five cubic feet ' of gas per hour, and such gas shall not contain more than twenty grains . of sulphur_ in any form in oue hundred cubic feet, nor more than live _- grains of ammonia in any form in one hundred cubic feet. When the. illuminating gas supplied by any company, person, or persons in the - . ·‘ District of Columbia, shall at any one time be of less illuminating power Inspector to r e - or of less purity than according to the standard just heretofore given, it portshall be so reported by the inspector of gas and meters to the company, Penalty for sup- DGPSOD, or persons supplying the same, who shall be subject to a penalty tgggagf of one hundred dollars, to be recovered before the proper tribunal and ,,,i,,m,{g 1,,,,,,,, 0, paid into the treasury of the District ol' Columbia aforesaid, for eaclrpm-ity.