Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-05-30
rhe Pubfc Works Of Fennsylvania Sale q
the Main Line-An Outline of the Bill.


s Legislature. has received the signature Of the
4 Governor, and is therefore a law. It is meas
ure Of much importance, and brief outline of its
i jprincipaf provisions will be read With interest
4 /. The first section makes it the duty Of the
Governor, within ten days after bis approval of
the Act, to cause to be advertised daily until the
day Of sale, in one or more newspapers of Phila-
i delphia, pittsburg, Harrisburg, Boston and New
York, a notice that the Main Line of the Public
1 Works will be exposed to sale at the Merchant
Exchange, or at some other public place in the
City Of Philadelphia, day to be selected by
him, not more than ninety days after the passage
| of the Act.
! 2. At the time and place so selected, the whole
Main Line, namely to wit: the Philadelphia and
Columbia Railroad, the Canal from Columbia to
| the junction at Duncan's Island, the Juniata
Canal from thence to Hollidaysburg, the Ale
gheny Portage Railroad, including the road to
avoid the Inclined Planes, and the Canal from
Johnstown to Pittsburg, with all the property
thereunto appertaining, shall be offered for sale.
8. 1t shall be lawful for any person or persons,
Railroad or Canal Company, now Incorporated or
which may hereafter be incorporated, to become
| the purchaser of said Main Line, for {. not
| less than seven and half millions of dollars;
provided, that if the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany become the purchasers, they shall pay
sum of not less than eight and half millions of
dollars, but on the consummation of the arrange
ment, SO much of the Act incorporating the said
Company as requires the payment of tax upon
tonnage passing over their road, shall become null
and void
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ten per cent. of the purchase money, and the
residue thereof in ten equal instalments. go
s. Besides the lien on the said Works, provided
in the Act, the purchaser shall as further secu-
rity, deposit in the State Treasury, State Loans
to the amount equal to the cash payment for
one-fourth Of the whole purchase money,
g.. All payments to the Commonwealth by the
purchasers for the principal, shall be made in
certificates of State Loans at par, and the interest
shall be paid in cash annually.
Z. The purchasers may at any time before the
maturity of the bonds given, pay off and satisfy
the principal, giving due notice.
g. As soon as the bonds and security shall be
given, the whole Main Line shall be transferred,
Q. All superintendalts and other officers of
roads and Canals shall continue to discharge their
official bonds shall enure to the use of the pur-
chaser So also of all moneys received by them
10. The purchase money unpaid, shall be ex-
empt from the payment of State Taxes.
IL. 1t shall be lawful for the purchaser to pur-
chase, lease or use, the Harrisburg, Portsmouth,
Mount joy, and Lancaster Railroads, or TO
struct a road from the western terminus of the
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, to the Ale
gheny Portage. ~ @
II. The purchaser shall at all times maintain
continuous railroad and canal communication
between Philadelphia and Pttsburg, and keep
the same in good operating condition; and shall
also at all times, keep them open and in good
condition for putlic use.
Is. It shall be lawful for said purchasers, their
successors AMI assigns, and their officers, engi-
neers contractors and agents, to enter upon any
lands adjoining. or in the neighboahood of the
works, and dig, take and carry away therefrom,
any materials necessary for enlarging, making.
altering, deepening or improving said works. or
any portion thereof.
IA. The purchasers shall have power and au-
thority to own and employ locomotive engines.
cars, boats and horses, to convey passengers and
freight of whatsoever description, within
Bile time after presentation, said works, or any
portion thereof, and charge and receive tolls and
fare for the passage and transportation Of persons
and freight, and said purchasers, their successors
and assigns, shall have the exclusive right to fur
nsh all the motive power on said railroads Pro
cied that all persons with cars, horses, boats and
freight may pass over said works, they paying |
toll therefor, and the use Of said works shall be
governed by such general rules and regulations
as such purchasers may from time to time orlan,
establish and publish but no person shall, with
out the consent of such purchasers, be permitted
to use horses, or other animal power said rail
roads, or steam said canals: 4dad Proeided that
no discrimination in tolls or charges, ip the
priority OF passage through the locks, shall ever
be made against any boats tonnage passing 10
or froln the Susquehanna division of the Pennsy-
vania canal, nor shall any greater amount be char
ged upon such boats and tonnage than that now
paid the Commonwealth. sfsA - aS
Is. Should any company already incorporated
by this Commonwealth become the purchaser,
they shall possess, mold and The same as part
of their original act Of corporation, and any sup
pleInents thereto, so far modified, however, to
embrace all the privileges granted by this act in
addition thereto, and all provisions in said origi
nal act and any supplements inconsistent with
the privileges herein granted, shall be and the
same are hereby repealed.
l6. That ali moneys derived from said sale shall
be either paid to the sinking fund, and applied
to the payment of the State debt according to the
provisions of the act entitled ss An Act to provide
sinking fund and to provide for the gradual ex-