The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-03-17
AN ACT t. amend the Charter of the
Evansville and Illinois Railroad Com

APPROVED MARCH 4, 1851
WHEREAS, it has been represented to the
present General Assembly that pursuant
tothe provisions dissection 81 of the ''act
to incorporate the Wabash Railroad COM
plny," approved February 6, 1851, the
several companies organized under the
''act to incorporate the Evansville and
Illinois railroad company" have consol-
idated their charters and have become
one company, subject to the liabilities
and privileges of the said several char
tiers, and in and by their act of consolida
ton have adopted the name Of the Evans
Vile and Illinois Railroad Company as
their corporate name. Therefore,
SECTION /. Be IT enacted by the General
assembly of the State Of Indiana, That the
actings and doings of said several compa-
MES, in all the steps whereby their consol-
idation into one united company did become
consummated, be and the same is hereby
confirmed and made valid and effectual to
all intents and purposes, and that all the
sections and provisions of the several char
tiers so consolidated. and the amendments
thereto in force shall be applicable, and of
binding force and obligation along the
whole line from Evansville to Crawfords-
vile, in the same manner, and to the same
extent. as if the same had been originally
embodied in a single charter for the whole
line aforesaid.
SEC. 2 That the corporate name and
style of said company, as adopted in the
act consolidating said several companies,
is hereby changed. and henceforth the said
company shall be called and known by
the name of the Evansville and Crawfords-
vile Railroad Company, and by that name
and style shall sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, and do all acts and things,
and in and by that name the said company
shall be held liable for all contracts and en-
gagements, and for all acts made or done by
the said several companies, before the said
act consolidating the same, and before this
act shall come to be in force, and all mon
eys, property, rights, credits, privileges,
and interest acquired or possessed by said
several companies before their consolida
ton or afterwards, and before the publca-
ton and acceptance of this act, shall belong
to and be possessed by said consolidated
company, in and by the name and style of
the Evansville and Charlottesville Rail-
road Company, in the same manner and to
the same extent, TO all intents and purposes,
as the same did belong to and was possess
ed by the said several companies respec-
lively, and as if the name adopted on con-
solidation had not been hereby changed
SEC. 3. That whenever any stockhold-
er or stockholders who shall have sui
scribed stock in either Of said companies,
before the consolidation thereof. or since
then in company or consolidated, shall have
failed. neglected or refused to pay any two
acquisitions or instaments made or called
for, the said company shall have the pow
er to declare the stock of any such stock
holder or stockholders, and all payments
made thereon. to be forfeited by their or
der, published in any newspaper printed in
the county where such delinquent stock
shall have been subscribed, if one shall be
therein printed, and if not, in county adj
joining thereto. such forfeiture to take eff
feet and become absolute at the expiration
of ninety days from and after the first pub
LEGATION of such order.
SEC. a. An emergency existing by rea-
son of the fact that the said railroad is now
in course of prosecution, this act shall be in
force from and after its publication and ac-
ceptance by the directors of said company.
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