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24th Congress · 1835–1837
H.R. 79
A Bill To incorporate a fire insurance company in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.
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Latest action: Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. William B. Shepperd, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, repor… · January 5, 1836 Understand the measure
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Introduced
Read twice, and ordered to be engrossed and read the third time to-morrow. Mr. William B. Shepperd, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To incorporate a fire insurance company in the town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.
Recorded January 5, 1836, as the clerk wrote it
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