The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-06
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| n BILL
To Incorporate the Transit Rail Road Company.
Be it enacted by the Legislatiue assembly Of Mime
sofa InTitory:
CONTINUED
10. For the purpose Of constructing and usin
said Railroad, the said corporation is authorized t
construct the said Railroad and the necessary bridge
across and over public highways and navgabI
streams; provided that il be SO done as not to oh
igation Of any navigabe stream. And the said cor
Pora ton Is hereby authorized to contract with an,
other Railroad company corporation with whose
road their Railroad may come in contact, Tor the
crossing or connection Of such roads and for the join
use thereof
S1l. Every track of said Railroad shall be lsic
with the n or rail, Of not less than sixty pound.
per yard lineal, and all the engines and Other
furniture shall be we'll made, Of good MATERIAL and
approved form or kind, equal in quality to those o.
the best equipped and furnished railroads in the Uni.
ted States.
VIZ. Ifany person shall wilfuly obstruc, or in any
way inure, spoil or destroy the Railroad any part
OF the Railroad, anything affixed appurtenant
thereto and necessary convenient for its free and
sale any Of the materials for the construction
thereof or any building, fixture or other structure or
carriage, engine car, erected kept for the
thereof such person shall be deemed guilty Of mis-
demeanor and liable to BE- indicted and punished
therefor; and he shall also be liable to pay TO the
company thrice the amount Of the damages OCCASION
ed thereby.
And in case the death OF any person shall be pro-
duced by or in consequence of any wul malicious
obstruction injury to the said Railroad or to any
engine car thereon, the person who shall so OBJ
struct Or injure the said Railroad or car or engine
thereon, shall be deemed guilty OF murder in the first
degree.
IL. Every conductor, baggage master agent
or servant of the said company, and who shall he en-
gagged IN the ticket office the said Rail-
road, shall wear upon his hat or cap plain badge,
which shall indicate his Office or station and no con-
ductor collector shall demand be entitled to re-
ceive any fare toll from any freghter passenger
exercise any control direction in his station or
be authorized or allowed to interfere with any pas
senger, baggage freight without wearing such
badge.
H. Every locomotive engine said Railroad
shall be furnished with good and sufficient alarm
bell or whistle, which shall be fully sounded at least
eighty rods distant from every highway crossing,
while the engine, either with or without a train Of
cars, shall be passing said road and for every
violation OF this section the said company shall for
felt and pay to whomsoever shall prosecute for the
same the sum Of ten dollars.
Is. This act is hereby declared to lie public
act, and may be amended by any subsequent Legisla
tive Assembly, in an, manner, no: destroying i'm
pairing the vested rights of said corporation.
Is. This act shall be ia force from and after its
passage.
Us. NORRIS, Speaker Of H. of R.
VIZ. P. MURRAY, Pres't Council.
Approved March Sd, 1855. s..-
w. A. GORMAN.
hereby certify the foregoing to be true COPY of
the original Act on file in this Office.
J. Travis RossER, al.
Secretary Of Minnesota Territory.