86 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 463, 567, 568. 1886. P¤>•¤i·¤¤· eighteen hundred and seventyihrce, and for other purposes:” Provided, C¤¤dQ¤¤¤¤ tion That the condemnation proceedings, if any such proceedings are neces- £;gf,‘;‘;'·}¥‘;g: {2;*; sary, shall not prevent the taking possession, on payment of the purchase- Possession_ money, of the Aqueduct Bridge by the United States, and opening the _ same to the public as a free bridge, if the same shall be acquired under C<>¤d•¤m¤9twu the first section: Provided further, That the sum of ten thousand dollars $?‘¥f’{“°” ,{“};‘°‘ of the sum hereby appropriated shall be available to meet the payments la ° Y an 8 °’ under condemnation proceedings), if any shall belhald. _ ht h d d V 1. 21, ha .69, Sec. 4. The act approved Fe ruary twenty-t ir ew een uu re P· 338, ¤>1$¤=¤igd· and eighty-one, entitled “An act to authorize the cdnstruction of a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," is hereby repealed. ° Approved, June 21, 1886. June 29, 1886. CHAP. 567.-An act to legalize the incorporation of National Trades Unions. iz Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R resentatives of the United meow.; Twas States of America in Congress assembled, Thajxhe term “Nationa¥Trad{e 'U¤i¤¤· _ _ Union ” in the meaning of this act shall signify any association 0 wor - D°H“‘*’°“· ing pebple having two or more branches in the States or Territories of ,_ _ the United Statesyfor the purpose of aiding its members to becom_e more V . · ‘ skillful and eilicient workers, the promotion of their general intelligence, the elevation of their character, the regulation of their wages and their pt hours and conditions of labor, the protection of their individual rights ii, in the prosecution of their trade or trades, the raising of funds for the `\;* benefit of sick, disabled, or unemployed members, or the families of de- 2 ceased members, or for such other object or objects for which working i people may lawfully combine, having in view their mutual protection ‘ or benentia Inca ration. V Sec. 2.`That?National Trade Unions shall upon tiling their articles YP° , _ 7 _ Qi of incorporation in the office of the recorder of the District of Columbia, sa X become a corporation under the technical name by which said National 1 Trade Union desires to be known to the trade; and shall have the right
sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, to grant and receive,
g;;; \ in its corporate or technical name, property, real, personal, and mixed, g` and to use said property, and the proceeds and income thereof, for the objects of sa1d corporation as in 1ts charter defined: Provided, That ._ each union may hold only so much real estate as may be required for N the immediate purposes of its incorporation. Constitution s, V Sec. 3. That} an incorporated National Trade Union shall have . rules. uu<1by·1¤w¤· power to make and establish such constitution, rules, and by-laws as it `~.__\ N may agzerniproper to carriy out; its lawful objects, and the same to alter, — amen a to or repea at p easure. X, Duties vfcffwcrs, <» Sec.,4. Thatlan incorporated National Trade Union shall have power
- °*°· to define the duties and powers of all its officers, and prescribe their
mode of election and term ofyodtice, to establish branches and sub- ,.-__ unions in any Territory of the nited States.
- —~ _ endquarters. V Sec. 5. Thai the headquarters of an incorporated National Trade
3 Union shall be located in the District of Columbia. `¤. Approved, June 29, 1886. .._ June 29, 1886. 56£.EAn act to reduce the fee on domestic money·orders for sums not ex- } CCB Lllg YB 0 81`S. X` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mo ey·¤i-dei- fee States of America in Congress assembled, That the fee for each domestic reduced. moneyorder npit exceeding in amount nve dollars shall be reduced from ‘ eight cents to ve cents. » Sec. 2. ’1`hatt)hm1ac%‘)shal‘gtake effect within one mouth after the date of its approva y the resident. Approved, June 29, 1886.
