Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-05-03
AN ACT
To incorporate the Wisconsin State Tele-
eraph Company.

To incorporate the Wisconsin State Tele-
graph Company.
The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented
81 Senate and Assembly, de enact rs follows
SIC f. Cornell, J. S. Draper, J. Stone,
C. G. Sholes and ] Murray, with their associates
he aud are hereby created body polite aud corko
rsIe, with perpetual succession. by the name and
style Of the {" Wisconsin Stale Telegraph Compa-
nv" and by that name they aud their successors
shall be capable in law Of contracting and being
contracted with, suing and being sued defending
and being defended in all courts and places and t
AL matters whatever, with full power 10 purchase
hold, and occupy all such real and personal estate
as may be necessary for the construction, extern
sion, aud usefulness of the works of said corpora>
ton and they may have a common seal aud the
same may be altered aud renewed at pleasure.
SEC. 2. The stock, property, and concerns of
said corporation shall be managed and controlled
by board of FIVE Directors including President
who shall also be Director, and who SHALL respec
lively be stockholders ia said corporation and who
shall, except for the first year be annually elected
by the stockholders Mt such time and place shall
be fixed by tbs by laws of said corporation. f..
Cornell. J. =. Draper, j. b. Stone, G. &. Shoies
and ]. Murray shall be the first Directors OF said
corporation and sh all hold their respective offices
unul their successors chosen aud qualified.
The first annual election Of Directors shall be hos
den on the second Tuesday in May, a. ID. eigh
teen hundred and fty~sx in the vIl!ag4 OF Mad
ison at the office of the Company in said village at
two o'clock, z. NJ, Of said day.
SEC 3. In case it shall happen at any tune that
nm election of Directors shall be made the
dsy fixed Cor such election, the corporation for this
reason shall not be dissolved, but it shah be lawful
to hold an ei eclion OH any other day under such
rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
bylaws of said corporation.
SEC. 4 Tie Directors Of said corporation shall
havs power make and prescribe such bylaws
aud regulations respecting the management and
contract Of the stock, property, and business OF
such corporation as they may deem necessary and
proper aud shall have power to employ agents,
officers and Gle RS, for conducting The business oil
said Company and prescribe the duties and the sal~
niieg aud wages TO be paid them.
SEC 5. 1t shalt he lawful to call in and demand
from the S ockholdcrs respectively all sums Of mo-
nov nv them enhscr,hAA ., suur ,imes aud in Nnci
payments as the, deem proper, aud@f any stoc<N
holder or subscriber 10 the capital stock shall fail
te nay the amount required to be paid at the
times required for such payment the stock OF such
del,ndueut s,ockholder or such portion thereof as
NAV be necessary to meet such payment may be
sold by the Directors at public auction, after giving
nubIc notice at least twenty days previous TO the
srIe i'm some public newspaper published and OF
general circulation in the village OF Madison, is
o,s;, and the surplus Of said sale If any over the
anount due the company and the costs OF SAID sale,
shall be paid to such delinquent stockhoIder.
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deemed personal property, aud be transferable IN
.uch manner as ma, be prescribed by the by. laws
said corporation, but share shall he transfers.
hc uptI the fall amount shall be pad or Sha nave
been sol9 as provided for III the preceding section
for non pavule OF caIhs thereon ana II shali not
BE- Iawfn for sad corporate III to use their funds To
nn,D,h lsY Stock IN any other corporation; ana the
stoc6 hotders shuttle personally liable TO the amount
of their stock for all debts which may be due or
OWING TO clerks ageuts, servants, or lahorers, Tor
auy services performed fer SAID corporation
SEC. T. The capital stock of said corporation
shall not exceed oRe hundred and h'ty tno"sah"
dlars and shall be divided into shares OF nifty dol
lar. each aud the amount of stock issued by said
cornoratIou shall not exceed enc hundred aud htty
dollars upon each mile of electric telegraph con
structed and duly equipped aud in operation Or or
der as an electric telegraph line. .
SEC g. The corporation hereby created shall
have the right to build and maintain lines oil cleo
trio telegraph between the following places and
upon the routes hereafter mentioned in the state
of Wisconsin, viz : from Milwaukee TO the MsSls-
sim; riysr nv way of Madison along the line OF the
Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad from M'iwau-
kee to WATERFOWL along the line OF the Muwau-
kee and Watertown railroad; from Janesvine To
Fond du Lac along the line of the ROCK RIVER
Union Valley railroad; from GAINESVILLE along the
line of the Southern Wisconsin rat1ead TO some
point on the Mississippi river nearly opposite Du'
buue Iowa; from Milwaukee 10 Green bay by way
of Shebovgan upon the route Of the Green y
and Milwaukee, and c i2ago rail road {; from Mil
waukee to La Crosse by way of the route OF the
Milwaukee and La Crosse rail road from Beoit
10 Portage City bv way of the BcioIt aud Madison
and Ma olson aud Lake Superior railroad. But
this corporation shall not have nor exercise the ex-
elusive privilege of building lines OF electric teie-
graphs upon the routes OF the SAID roads above
mentioned, until they have obtaiRed the consent
OF said railroad corporations aud entered into such
far fha not tP
lines the said rail road companies may require
and no line of telegraph constructed under the pro-
vision of this act shall be construed as to inter-
fare with the travel upon any highway, street, or
Toad.
SEC. 9. The books OF the company shall at all
simes,5e open to the inspection of the stockhold>
.rs. and to all persons having demands against SAID
corporation past due.
SEc. 10. II any person, clerk, messenger, boy,
or other person in the employ of said telegraph
company shall reveal the contents Of any private
message to any other person than to whom it was
directed or to his attorney ag Mt, 1t shall he dee
med misdemeanor; and such person so offending
shall be subject to a fue not exceeding hve hun
bred dollars or to Imprisonment in the county jail
not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion
OF the court.
SIC IL This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after lis passage.
Approved. March 81, 1855.
Ey The Mayor of New York has adj
dressed circular to the American ConSuls