Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-07-26

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routs with Such certainty as to give rea
sonabie notice TO all persons interested
4 therein, that their rights may be affects
by the granting of said petition, and tina
they may have an opportunity to apPeat
and object thereto.
SEC. 4. Every act Of incorporation of 4
railroad company shall eoufne the tos9
within the limits Indicated by the notice
required in the preceding section, shall sPe'
city the several towns through which the
same may pass, and shall otherwise desig.
nate the route on which the road may be
authorized to be made, with as much GER
tainty as the nature of the case will admit
Sec. 5. The immediate government and
direction of the affairs of every such corpo-
ration shah be vested in board of no less
than nine directors, who shall be annually
chosen by the corporation in the manner
hereinafter provided, and shall hold their
Offices until Others shall lie duly elected in
their places. And the said directors shall
elect one Of their own number president of
the board, who shall also be president of
the corporation, and they may also choose
clerk or secretary, who shah also be clerk
aud secretary Of the CORPORATION, and who
his duty, and treasurer, who shall give
bonds, to the corporation, in such sum as
shall be required BY the bye-laws, for the
faithful discharge Of his trust.
Sec. 6. All meetings of the corporation
shall be called and notified in such manner
as shall be provided in the bye-laws,-and
at such meetings each member shall be en-
titled TO one vote for each share held by
him.
SIC. 7. The share in the capital stock
of any railroad corporation shall be deemed
personal estate, and they may be transferred
by any conveyance in writing, registered
either by the treasurer in books to be kept
in his Office, or by the secretary, clerk or
other officer duly authorized by the directors
in books to he kept at such other place as
they may appoint, and no conveyance Of;
any such shares shall be valid against any
other person than the grantors or theil re-
representatives., unless so registered.
SEQ. B. The president and directors Of
every such corporation may. from time 10
time, make such equal assessments on all
the shares in said corporation, as they may
deem expedient and necessary for the pur-
poses OF the CORPORATION, and may direct
manner and with such notice as may be
prescribed by the bye-laws Of said corpora.
ton. and if any stakeholder shall neglect to
pay his assessments for the space of thirty
days, after notice from the tre4sur&r, the di
rectors may order the treasurer after giving
Gotice of the sale, to sell such shares at
auction, to the highest bidder, and the same
shall accordingly he transferred to4the pur.
chaser and if the shares or any delinquent
stakeholder shall not sell for a sum Suffi-
Client to pay his assessment with interest
and charges of sale, he shall be held liable
to the corporation for any deficiency, and If
any such shares shall sell for more than the
assessment so dne, with interest and charges
of sale, he shall be entitled to the surplus
remaining after the sale provided that no
assessment shall tie laid Hpon any shares in
| such corporation, TO greater amount than
the sum at which the shares shall be hxed
by the charter of such corporation.
Sec. 9. Every railroad corporation may
| Law out its road not exceeding six rods ~ides
and for the purpose of cuttings embank-
msnts, procuring stones and gravel, and for
necessary t,irhouts, may take muck more
land, within the limits OF IT'S charter. in the
manner provided in this act, as may he ne
cessaIy for the proper construction and see
curity Of the road. And if they shall not
lie abe 10 obtain land for the purposes
aforesaid, by an agreement with the owners
thereof, they shall pay therefor, such DANA
ges as shall be estimated and determined by
appraisers, 10 be appointed by Judge OF
the superior court, in the manner provided
in this at, and no land without the limits
of said road, shall be so taken, without the
permission of the owner thereof, unless the
commissioners of said road on application
of such corporation, and after notice TO the
said owner, shall frst prescribe the limits
with which land shall be taken for the pur>
poses aforesaid, and NO railroad company
shall lay ont and finally locate Its road
without the written appreciation Of the 10
cation By a majority of said commissioners,
eAcep, SO far forth as the location is deiin-
itely fixed in the act of incorporation.
SEC. 10. Every railroad corporation shall
be liable TO pay all damages that shall be
oceasioned by laying out, and making, and
maintaining their road, and sach damages
shall be estimated by three appraisers, to
be appointed by any Judge Of the superior
court, UPON application Of said corporation.
after due notice to the other party Of said
intended application, and in making such
appraisal the appraisers shall consider the
expense to the adjoining proprieiors OF ma
king and maintaining fences upon the line
Of such road, and shall include the saime In
their estimate or damages. And when it is
intended TO take any land for the purposes
aforesaid, the corporation may Apply TO the
said Judge for the appointment Of appraisers
as herein provided, TO estimate the said dam
ages, before the actual taking and appro-
prialion of sHch land by The corporation:
And all such assessment Of damages Shall
be in writing. unfer the hands Of said ap"
praisers, snd the same shall be returned 70
the clerk of the superior court in the county
where the land lies, who shall record il. and
when SO returned and recorded, sHeh af'
praisement shall have the effect Of judg
ment, and execution may issue at the end
OF sixty days from the time Of such return
in favor OF the persons respectively to whom
damages may be assessed. and said apprai
sers shall be paid by said corporation, fol
the time actually spent in making such ap-