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forfeit all rightto the exten-sion.
This act to beconsidered apublic act; andacts repugnanthereto, repeal-ed.
tions contained in this act, then [the] said corporation shall forfeit allright to an extension of charter.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted , That this act shall be considereda public act; and so much and such parts of any act or acts heretoforepassed in relation to said corporation as may be repugnant to this act,be, and the same are hereby, repealed and annulled.
Approved, May 25, 1838.
May 31,1838.
[Expired.]
Charters ofFarmers’ andMechanics’Bank, Bank ofthe Metropolis,&.c. extendedto 4th July,1840, fee.
Proviso.
Pay of officersand seamen.
Pay of super-intendents, fee.at yards.
Provisions.Repairs, fee.
Medicines,fee,
Chap. XCI .—Jin Ad to continue the corporate existence of the Banks in the Dis-trict of Columbia , (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the charters ofthe Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Georgetown, the Bank of theMetropolis, Patriotic Bank of Washington, and Bank of Washington,in the city of Washington, and the Fanners’ Bank of Alexandria, andBank of Potomac, in the town of Alexandria, be, and the same arehereby, extended to the fourth day of July, in the year eighteen hundredand forty : Provided, The said banks, each for itself, shall conform tothe following conditions :
First. To cease receiving or paying out all paper currency of less de-nomination than five dollars, on or before the day of the promulgationof this act.
Second. To redeem all their notes of the denomination of five dollarsin gold or silver, from and after the first day of August, in the presentyear.
Third. To resume specie payments in full, on or before the first dayof January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, orsooner, if the principal banks of Baltimore and Richmond should soonerresume specie payments in full.
Approved, May 31, 1838.
Chap. XCII .—An Act making appropriationsforthenaval scrricefor the year onethousand eight hundred and thirty-eight .
Be it enacted by the Senatv and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balances of formerappropriations, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, forthe naval service, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, viz :
For the pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and ofseamen, one million three hundred and twelve thousand dollars;
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil esta-blishments at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred andseventy dollars;
For provisions, six hundred thousand dollars;
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tearof vessels in commission, one million two hundred thousand dollars;
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and otherexpenses on account of the sick, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Ports-mouth, New Hampshire , twenty thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charles-town, Massachusetts , seventy-four thousand dollars;
For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn ,New York , sixty-one thousand dollars;