and shall not forthwith pay the same, then it shall be lawful for the circuit court of the District of Columbia, at Alexandria, on the petition in writing of such stockholder or stockholders, to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the value of the interest of such stockholder or stockholders in the bank to which he or they may belong at the time of the said union, for which purpose such commissioners shall, under the direction of the said court, have access to the books, papers, and accounts, of the said banks, and, on the reportDecree of the commissioners may be enforced by execution. of the said commissioners, and such other evidences, as may be laid before them, then said court shall proceed to ascertain the value of the stock of such stockholder or stockholders, and shall decree the value, so ascertained, to be paid to him or them by the said Bank of Potomac, and shall have power to enforce such decree by execution, attachment, or other legal process.
Any two or more of the banks whose charters are extended may unite and form a bank, &c.Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the banks, whose charters are hereby extended, by their respective presidents and directors, with the consent of a majority in interest of their respective stockholders, to agree, under written articles of association, to unite and form one bank, by a style and name to be prescribed in such articles; and the subscribers thereto, and their legal representatives, shall, from the day fixed for that purpose in the said articles, be incorporated under the style and name set forth in the said articles, and thenceforth subject to the same rules, duties, regulations, conditions, provisions, and impositions, and be vested with the same rights, privileges, and immunities, as a body corporate, as by this act appertains to the Bank of Potomac, and are prescribed for the union of the Union Bank of Alexandria with the Bank of Potomac.
This act declared a public act.
Repugnant parts of former acts repealed.Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That this act be, and the same is hereby declared to be, a public act, and that so much, and such parts, of the said acts, incorporating the several banks aforesaid, as may be repugnant to this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed and annulled.
Approved, March 2, 1821.
Statute II.
Chap. XXV.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to remove the land office in the district of Lawrence county, in the territory of Arkansas.
Part of act of Feb. 17, 1818, ch. 11, repealed.
The President may establish the office at any suitable place.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, so much of the act, entitled “An act making provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the territory of Missouri,” as requires that the land office for the district of Lawrence county shall be established at the seat of justice in said county, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to remove and establish said office at any suitable place within the said district.
Approved, March 2, 1821.
Statute II.
Chap. XXXI.—An Act for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, Esquire.
On the widow of the late O. H. Perry, 400 dollars during her natural life, continuing a widow.
Sons and daughter of Oliver H. Perry.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, settled, by way of annuity, payable, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, half yearly, at the treasury of the United States, or at the loan office at Providence, at the option of the annuitants, on the widow and children of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, Esquire, of the United States’ navy; that is to say: On Elizabeth Perry, dowager of the aforesaid Oliver Hazard Perry, four hundred dollars during her natural life:
