Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-31
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10 Incorporate the Delaware, Le-
high and Wyoming Valley Rail
Road Company


SECTION l.. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener-
al Assembly met and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That Geo.
NJ. Hollenback, George 2. Steele, Thomas
Miner, Alexander H. Bowman, Hendrick
B. Wright, Anthony Il. Emely, Ziba
Bennett, Warren J. Woodward, Jonathan
J. Slocum. Samuel P. Ceilings, Edward
Lindsay, Isaac Lewis, Samuel G.. Turner,
Styles Williams, and Frederick Nagle, Of
the County of Luzerne, and Milo NJ.
! Dimock, James II. Walton, and William
Davis, of the County of Monroe, Or any
FIVE Of them, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed Commissioners to open books, re-
ceive subscriptions of Stock, and organ.
ize Company by the name, style and tt
tie Of THE DELAWARE, LEHIGH & Wy
oMING VALLEY RAIL Road CoMPPNY,'
with al the powers, and subject to all the
I. duties and restrictions, prescribed by an
act of Assembly of this Commonwealth
entitled San Act regulating Rail Road
Companies, approved the nineteenth day
of February one thousand eight hundred
and forty-nine.
SECTION ,. That the capital Stock of
said Company shall consist of Fifty thous-
and shares, of Fifty Dollars each.
SECTION 3. That said Company shall
have the right to build and construct a
Rail Road from a point on the Delaware
River, in the said County of Monroe, at
or near the Delaware Water Gap, to the
Borough of Wilkes-Harre in the said
County of Luzerne, with a Single or
Double Track, and of any guage and
width that shall be deemed advisable by
the President and Directors of said Comp
any, by such route and grades as will in
the opinion of the said President and
Directors most conduce to the public in
terest, and to connect with any Rail Road
or public improvement now constructed,
or which may hereafter be constructed,
at either end or at any immediate point
on the line or route thereof, with the pow
er also to extend branch or lateral Rail
Road, or Rail Roads, to any point in said
County of Luzerene deemed useful and
expedient by said President and Direc-
tors, not exceeding Ten miles in length
in any case.
SECTION 4. That whenever any Sec
ton or Sections Of five miles of said Rail
Roads shall be completed, the said Comp
any may use, occupy and enjoy the same
as fully, and in the same manner, as if
the same were finished throughout its en-
tire length.
SECTION 5. That whenever the par
ties cannot agree upon the damages
claimed either for lands or meterials ia
ken by said Company in the prosecution
of their work the said Company may ten
der Bond, and proceed in all respects
as is provided and specified in the second
section of an act entitled "a Supplement
to the act incorporating the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, approved the seventh day
of March one thousand eight hundred and
forty-nine.
SECTION 6. That with the concurrence
of the Legislature of New Jersey the said
Company shall have the right to construct
Rail Road Bridge over the River Della
ware, at or near the said Delaware Wa
ter Gap, if deemed advisable by said Pres
ident and Directors in order to connect