The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1854-02-11
NUMBER 35

because of their ighborlool to the rail
way,
Art, 4, The materials for the road,
whether natural or foreign productions,
all goods, etc., which may be necessary
for the use and service of the agents, en-
ployecs, and laborers, as well as all kinds
Of carriages, cars and other vehicles for
transport, all machines, tools, houses,
offices, dwellings, stations, coal, animals
and their harness necessary, shall be free
Of all duty, taxation, contribution or i'm,
post now existing, or hereafter to exist,
of whatever class or denomination.
Art, 5. The government will assure
to the company its properties and its
foreign employees the protection which
existing treaties guarantee to such for
eigners, as well for their persons as for
their property and interests.
Art. 6. All Mexican employees, op-
eratives, and laborerS, shall be exempt
from military service during the time of
their engagement with the said compa-
ny.
Art. 7. The Senior Juan Richards en-.
cages to form and constitute the said
company within eight months from tho
granting of this privilege, and will off.
cialy advise the Mexican plenipotentiary
in London of the formation and installa-
ton of said company, its statutes and its
regulations, for publication in the Mex
ican republic.
Art. s. The company's headquarters
will be in London, and one-lourth of the
shares shall be reserved, during one year
for the inhabitants of the Mexican re-
public who may desire to purchase, and
subscription book for this purpose shall
be opened in Mexico.
Art. 8. So soon as the company shall
be formed, numerous engineers shall
proceed to survey the lands which shall
be found most favorable to the course
which the railway shall pursue, and
when the survey shall have been made
wholly or in part, the plans shall be sub
mitted to the supreme government, and
permission obtained, the work shall be
begun. In case of any unforeseen ob5ta.
Gle which shall render the construction of
a railway impossible, at one OR more
points, the company shall construct a car
riage road to communicate with the sep
Grated points of the railway, and this cir
cumstance shall be considered as Of ab-
solute necessity, and shall in no way fur
nish a motive for the withdrawal Of this
grant.
Art. 10. As soon as the official notice
of the formation of this company is re-
ceivcd in Mexico, skillful persons shall
be chosen, one by the government and
one by the company, to value that part Of
the road which is now built, its cars,
houses, offices, utensils, and whatever
else belongs to it. Should tn Sc persons
disagree, they shall chose third, whose
decision shall be defnitive and obligato-
ry upon all contracting parties. At the
conclusion of this valuation, the road, its
carriages, offices, and appurtenances shall
be given to the company in perpetual pos
session, at arent of six per cent. upon the
valuation of the property.
Art. II. Before the railway is finished
and opened to the public, the company
shall advise with the supreme govern.
ment as to the rate Of charges for passcn.
gers, freight and baggage.
Art. y. 1t is further agreed and COW
that this grant shall extend itself,
on the same conditions, to any branch or
which the company may seeftto
subject to the appreciation Of
5he supreme government.
Art. 18. Once finished, the road from
Vera Cruz to Mexico, and the branches
named in the last article, together with
Ill their appurtenances, shall be consid-
,rcd as the company's property IN per,
Oetet,tne.
Art IA. The transport of the mails by
bo roilvov or ite branches shall he tha