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THlRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. C1-:. 48, 49. 1865. 435 facilities under and upon the whole or any portion of any avenue, street, or alley; to cause the same to be suitably paved and repaired, and at all times properly cleaned and watered; to cause lamps to be erected therein, sms; lamps, and to light the same and to pay the cost thereof, the corporation of Washington is hereby authorized to lay and collect a tax upon all prop- Tax, erty bordering upon each street or alley that may be paved, sewered, lighted, cleaned, or watered by said corporation in accordance with the provisions of this act. And also to lay, or cause to be laid, simultaneously with the grading or paving of any avenue, street, or alley in which a main Wm, and gas water-pipe or main gas-pipe, or main sewer may have been laid, water or pipes and lateral gas service pipes or lateral house drains, from such water or gas main or Muse drammain sewer to one foot within the curb line in front of every lot or subdivisional part of a lot which may bound on such avenue, street, or alley, and to which a gas or water service pipe or house drain may not have been already laid, andto pay the cost thereof, shall have full power and Tax. authority to lay and collect a special tax on every such lot or subdivisional part of a lot. Approved, February 23, 1865. Cnr. XLIX. —An Ad to incmpomte the Sisters of Mercy in the District of Columbia. Feb- 23, 1865- Be it enacted by the Senate and {Rinse of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Uongress assembled, That Isabel Atkinson, Eliza- M“S‘EE€?s QL beth Medcalf Teresa Byrne, Ellen Matthews, Mary Duffy, Teresa Moran, Dgijict gp C0. and Ellen Wynne, and their successors, hereafter to become Sisters of l¤ml>i¤i¤<><>¤‘P<>· Mercy, and to be appointed according to the rules and regulations that mt°d’ have been or may hereafter be established by their association, be, and they are hereby, made, declared, and constituted a corporation or body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style, and title of the “Sisters of Mercy in the District of Columbia." Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tug;]??"? lf"' houses, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, property, privileges, imc0mg ,,, goods, and chattels, heretofore given, granted, devised or bequeathed to the corporation the said Sisters of Mercy, in the District of Columbia, or to any individual of the said corporation, or to any person or persons for the use of said corporation, or that have been purchased for or on- account of the same be, and they are hereby, vested in, and confirmed to, the said corporation; and that the said corporation may purchase, take, receive, hold, c°'P°'***l°¤ . may hold, &c., and apply to the uses and purposes of the same, according to the rules, P,(,P€,ty_ regulations, and by-laws that they may establish from time to time, for the management of the concerns of the said society or corporation, any lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, property, and privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may have been or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed or devised unto the said association or corporation by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grants, sale, or bequest, and that the saidvassociation or corporation of the Sisters of Mercy, in the District of Columbia, may dispose of and convey the same as they may deem proper: Provided, That the said association or cor- liimittolavd poration shall not, at any one time, hold, use, possess, and enjoy, within an pr°pmy' the District of Columbia, either by legal seizure, or trust, for its use and benefit, more than three hundred and twenty acres of land, nor shall the said association or corporation hold, in its own right, or by any other person in trust, or for its benefit, real estate the annual net income of which, after discharging all its expenses, debts, and -liabilities, shall exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. _ Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation, by the Smuname of the Sisters of Mercy, in the District of Columbia, be, and shall be hereafter, capable in law and in equity to sue and be sued, within the