Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-04-26
AN ACT
To Incorporate the Vermont and Massachusetts, Rail
Road Company.


Be ii enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiues in General Court assembled, and By the
authority of the same, as .foALo'cs:
Section l. Joseph Davis Ephraim Parker, Gardiner
c. Hall, John r. Blake, James White Richard
Cotton George T. Davis and Horatio G. Newcomb
their associates and successors, hereby made a
Corporation by the name ofthe Vermont and .Massa-
chusetts Rail Road Company, with all the powers
and privileges and subject all the duties liabilities
and restrictions contained in that part of the thirty
ninth chapter of the Revised Statutes which relates
to Rail Road Corporations and in the several Statutes
subsequently passed relating to such corporations
and in the forty fourth chapter of the Revised
Statutes and said corporation is hereby empowered
and authorised to Locate construct and fully complete
Rail Road with one or more tracks, from some
convenient point on the location of the Fitchburg
Rail Road in the town of Ftchburg in the county of
Worcester, and thence up the Nashua river to the
valley Whitman's river in Westminster thence up
said valley to the South part of Ashburnham thence
through the North part of the of Gardner to the
Otter river thence down said Otter river to the vii
lage of BadwinSville in the North part of Tempeton
thence down said river to Miller's river passing thro
the Southwest corner of Winchendon; thence down
said Mier's river, passing through the towns of Roy
alston and Phpston to Atho in said county of Wor-
cester, and from said termination in Atho to continue
and extend the said Rail Road in either or any of the
following ways namely down said Miller's river
through the towns of Orange Wendell, Ervng, near
the line of Montague to the town of Mortified on
the Connecticut river, and crossing said river and
running to the Southern boundary of Vernon in the
State of Vermont; from said termination in Athol
through the towns of Orange and Warwick to the
Southern boundary of Winchester in the State of
New Hampshire or from said termination in Athol
through the towns of Orange, Erving, Wendell,
Montague, Deerfeld. Greenfield and Bernardston,
to the Southern boundary of the State of Vermont
at Guilford, Vernon; or from said Bernardston,
sthro the towns of Gill and Mortified, to the South
ern boundary of said State of Vermont at Vernon.
Section 2. The Capital stock of said Rail Road
Company, shall consist of not than twenty five
thousand shares the number of which shall be de-
termned from time to time by the Directors thereof
and assessments shall be laid thereon of greater
amount in the whole than one hundred dollars on
each share. And no share shall be transferable
within year after the organization of said Com
pany under this act. And no stakeholder shall vote
upon the question of the location of the road upon
either of the routes named in the first section of this
act, unless at least five per cent shall have been
paid upon the share shares upon which said stock
holder shall claim the right to vote and before this
organization of the Company, five thousand shares
at least shall have been subscribed. And the said
corporation may purchase and hold such real estate
the line Of said road, and such materials cars en-
gines and other things may be necessary for
depots, for the use of said road and for the trans
portation of persons goods and merchandise.
Section 3. If the location of said road on one of
the routes before mentioned, be not filed according
to law within two years from the first day of April
next; or if the said Company shall not complete said
road from the termination of said Fitchburg Rail road
far said Baldwnsville within three years from
the date of this Act, and the remainder thereof on
one of said routes to the extent provided for in the
first Section of this Act, with at least one track
within five years from the date of the same then the
same shall be null and void.
Section 4. The Legislature may authorize any
Company to enter with another Rail road at any
point of said Vermont and Massachusetts, Rail Road
and the same, or any part thereof paying there
for such rate of toll compensation, as the Legis-
lature may from time to time prescribe, that may