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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE EORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS or mm ` UNITED STATES, Passed at the jirst session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of March, 1879, and was azhourned without day on Tuesday, the first day of July, 1879. ItU€rH:mRFORD B. HAYES, President: WILLIAM A. W1rnnLnn, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. ALLEN G. THUBMAN was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the fifteenth of April, 1879. SAMUEL J. RANDALL was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on the eighteenth day of March, 1879, and continued to act as such until the close of the session. CHAP. 1.-An act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the pur April 18, 1879. _ chase or construction of s. reirigeratiug ship for the disinfection of vessels and ——·———— cargoes, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Béffizewting ury be, and hereby is, authorized to contract for the purchase or con- “h‘P‘ struction of such steam vessel, and reirigerating machinery, or to arrange with the Navy Department for the use of such vessel as may be recommended by the National Board of Health, to disinfect vessels and cargoes from ports suspected of infection with yellow fever or other contagious disease; the construction of the same, if such construction shall be recommended by said Board of Health, to be under the inspection of an oincer of the Bureau of Steam Engineering of the Navy, who may, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, be detailed by the Secretary of the Navy for that purpose; and for the purpose of such Appropriation. purchase or construction, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 18, 1879. CHAP. 2.-An act changing the name of the National Bank of Commerce of Cinein- April 29, 1879. nati, Ohio, to the Nationa Lafayette and Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio. -vv_'-*-1** Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of the National Na.tiom1Bauko£ Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio, located in the city of Cincinnati, Q<>mm9r§ of 0'¤¤· in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, shall be changed to the "'m‘”’· · National Lafayette and Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio, when- Change ofname. ever the board of directors of said bank shall accept the new name by resolution of the board, and cause a copy of said resolution, duly authenticated, to be filed with the Comptroller of the Currency: Provided, That Promo. such acceptance be made within nine months after the passage of this act, and that all expenses incident to such change, including engraving, shall be borne and paid by said bank. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , Sec. 2. That all the debts, demands, liabilities, rights, privileges, and etc., powers of the National Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio shall *¤¤f<>U¢W<>l1¤¤s¤· devolve upon and inure to the National Lafayette and Bank of Commerce of Cincinnati, Ohio, whenever such change of name is effected. Approved, April 29, 1879. XXI--•1 l