Washington County News | 1899-01-28 | Page 2 | Senate Passes Nicaragua Bill

Senate Passes Nicaragua Bill. Washington, Jan. 24. The Xicara-guan Xicara-guan canal bill has passed the senate. The bill, as it passed, continues the name of the Maratine Canal company. It provides for the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of stock at S100 each. The canal company is required to call in all the stock issued, except that held by the Nicaragua and Costa Eicau governments. gov-ernments. The company is also required re-quired to redeem and cancel bonds and scrip heretofore issued by the company, com-pany, and to satisfy all cash liabilities.