The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-06-23
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
Laws Of Minnesota for 1855.

. -t.A BILL
For Act to incorporate the Root River Valley ant
Southern Minnesota Railroad Company.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislative assembly of tn.
Territory Of Minnesota sa.' -'r'.
(CoNTINUED.)
3. The board Of directors may at such times a
they may deem necessary or proper assess upon tn,
stock subscribed an instalment Of less than five
more than twenty per cent, and require payment o
such installment within reasonable time, not les
than thirty days from notice thereof nnder the pen
atty o forfeiture of the stock upon which the as
sessment made. .......-.
SO. The said corporation shall locate said cana
and at least twenty-five miles of the said railroad
| and commence work thereon within five years from
the time when this act shall take effect, and shall f
y complete and equip at least track from Hokaf
to the Blue Earth River, with suitable and safe
switches and turnouts, within ten wears of the same
time. 't .@'i-. ..... a,,.} ..... .... ....
1O. For the purpose of constructing and using
SAID railroad, the said corporation is authorized t.
construct their said railroad and the necessary bridge.
across and over public highways and navigable
streams. Provided, That it be SO done as not to oh.
struct or impede the navigation of any navigable
streann And the said corporation is hereby author
zed to contract with any other railroad company OF
corporation with those whose road their road may
come in contact, for the crossing or connection OF
such roads, and for the joint use thereof.
IL. Every track of said railroad shall be laid
per yard lineal. and all the engines cars and other
furniture shall be well made, Of good MATERIAL and OF
approved form kind, equal in quality to those of
the best equipped and furnished railroads in the Uni
ted States. .af ... .-
~: Ifany person shall wfully obstruct or in any
way nure, spoil destroy the railroad or any part
OF the railroad, or anything affixed or appurtenant
thereto and necessary or convenient for its free and
safe use, or any of the materials for the construction
thereof, or any building, fixture, other structure
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 pay the COM
pany twice the amount of damages occasoned there
by. And in case the death of any person shall be
produced by or in consequence of any wiful mali
cious obstruction injury to the said railroad to
any engine or car thereon. the person who shall so
obstruct iDjure the said railroad or car or engine
thereon shall be deemed guilty of murder in the first
degree. ... ...
q IL. Every conductor, baggage master, or other
agent servant Of the said company, and who shall
be engaged in the ticket Office, the car. on said
railroad, shall wear upon his hat cap plain badge
ductor collector shall demand or be entitled to re-
ceve any fare or toll from any rsghter passenger,
exercise any control direction in his station or
to be authorized allowed interfere with any pas
senger, baggage or freight without wearing such
badge.
STA. Every locomotive engine on said railroad
eial be furnished with good and sufficient alarm
bell or whistle, and shall be fully sounded at least
eighty rods distant from every highway crossing while
the engine, either with or without train Of cars,
shall be passing over said road, and for every viola
tion of this section the said company shall forfeit and
sum Of ten dollars.
l5. This act is hereby declared to be public
act, and may be amended by any subsequent Legisla
tive Assembly, in any manner.
This act shall take effect Immediately after its pas
sage. ....... -
OF Fillmore county is hereby established at CarImona
upon the south east quarter of section number four,
() in township one hundred and two, QO2) north of
range eleven, Ql) west of the fifth principal meridi-
anal laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
IL. That the County Of Wright be and the same
Is hereby declared to be an organized county, and in
vested with all immunities to which all organized
counties are in this Territory entitled by law.
Is. That the Governor shall appoint and com
mission three suitable persons being qualified voters
of said county Of Wright, to be a board Of county
commissioners for said county, with full power and
authority to do and perform all the acts and duties
devolvng upon the board of county commissioners of
any organized county in this Territory and the said
board shall have power to appoint clerk to execute,
fulfill and perform the duties devolvng by law upon
the Register Of Deeds and clerk of the board of coun-
y commissioners Of any organized county, who shall
noio Sal0 ONCE until MS successor shall be duly elect
ed and qualified. iI4. .... ......-.
10. That the commissioners appointed afore-
said shall meet on the second Monday in April, at
Monticello, in said county, which shall be the county
seat for said county, and shall proceed to appoint
clerk as aforesaid and to do and perform all other
acts relative to said county, which the commissioners
Of any organized county can do and perform
~. The county commissioners shall have power
to appoint suitable person, being qualified voter
of said county, sheriff of said county, who shall quail
ify and give bond according To the requirements o
law, who shall hold said Office until his successor
shall be elected and qualified at the next general cleo
ton.
s2l. The said county of Wright shall be included
in the second Judicial District, and the Judge of saf
district shall fix the time for holding the terms of the
District Court in said county, until the shall bt
fixed by law. is
| Us. NORRIS, Speaker of H. of r.
.l-. WIN. P. MURRAY, Pres't Council.
Approved March I'd, 1866. ..-. ,f -.n ..
+ ...,r> .as rc+at o.. w. A. GORMAN.
hereby certify the foregoing to be correct copy
Of the original act on file in this office.
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