The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-31
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Laws Of Minnesota for 1855.
AN ACT



BE it enacted by the Legislative assembly efhe
Territory of Minnesota
That Isaac Staples, John McKusick, Christopher
Carl, Elias Mexican, Jonathan E. McKusick and
Albert Harris, and their associates, successors and
assigns, be and they hereby constituted body
corporate and polite, for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned, by the name Of the " Saltwater Ferry
Company" for the term Of fifteen years; and by that
they and their successors shall be and they
hereby made capable in law to contract and be
tracted with, and be sued, plead and be mplead-
ed, prosecute and defend, answer and be answered,
in any court of record elsewhere, and to purchase
and hold any estate, real, personal and mixed, and
the to grant, sell, lease, mortgage, otherwise
dispose Of for the benefit Of said Company to devise
and keep common seal, and 10 alter, renew, or
change the same at pleasure; to make and enforce
any bylaws not contrary to the constitution and laws
of the United States or Of this Territory. ..sr
81. That the said corporation is hereby vested
with the exclusive right and privilege for the period
Of fifteen years, Of keeping and maintaining ferry
across the Lake st. Croix, in the county Of WASH
ington and Territory of Minnesota, section
Der twenty (2) township number thirty, (3O)
north of range number 20 west; and no other ferry
shall be established within mile from the bounds
Of said section number twenty eight. Fs-ttSt
So. That the capital stock of said company shall
be three thousand dollars, with the right and privi
lege Of increasing the same to the of fifteen thou
sand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each; which stock is to be owned
by the corporators above named, in the proportions
and manner agreed upon by them, or as directed by
the rules, regulations and bylaws Of said corpora
ton. -..-. H..
shall have power elect from their number such
officers, trustees directors as they may deem nee
essary for the successful management and operation
Of said corporation, in pursuance to their bylaws and
regulations f.- %
s s. That If the said corporators shall not organ
he in, tn farm hair Autoo
herein required within six months from the date Of
the passage of this act then this shall be void
Sc. The said company shall at all times keep
safe and good boat or boats, in repair, sufficient for
the accommodation of all persons wishing to cross
the Lake St. Croix at said ferry, and shall give
prompt and ready attendance passengers or teams
on all occasions and at all hours, both at night or
day But persons wishing to cross at said ferry in
the night, may be charged double the fare herein
after prescribed. And provided further, that the
cross at said Jerry, when the said Lake St. Crox is
so rough endanger life property, or when ice
shalt reader it unsafe or impractcabe to cross.
81. The rates charged for crossing at the above
ferry shall not exceed the following, viz:
For each foot passenger, l2a cents.
IS mare, horse or mule, with or
withou: rider, 373 &c
two horse, two OK, two
mule team, loaded or I'M
loaded, with driver, IS
sc additional horse, mule,
COW, 10
Z" swine or sheep,
All freight or lumber, merchandise, other art-
cles not in teams, at the rate OF ten cents per
barrel, fifty cents per M. feet OF lumber, and
three cents per hundred pounds for all other ar
ticles.
So The said corporators shall within six months
after the passage Of this act, file to he filed
with the clerk ofthe Board of County Commissioners
Of the county of Washington, recognizance to the
said Board, with good and sufficient securities, Ito
he approved by said Board of County Commission
ers) in the penal Of one thousand dollars, condi
toned that they will fulfill all the duties that i'm
posed upon them in the foregoing sections; and in
case Of their failure neglect DO, shall forfeit
all the benefits that might have accrued to them from
its passage.
So. For every neglect in keeping good and sufli.
cent boats, or failure to give prompt and due aen-
ton and attendance the said company shall forfeit
sum not exceeding twenty dollars to be recovered by
an action of debit before any court having competent
jurisdiction and shall be further Liable in action
the case for all damages any person shall sustain
by reason OF the neglect of said company to fulfil any
o. the duties imposed by this act.
10. Any person who shall sustain any injury by
the negligence default of said company, or OF the
ferryman its employ, may have remedy by an ac-
ton upon the bond required in this act.
IL. This act to take effect from and after the day
oil its passage.
sl2. Any future Legislature may alter amend
this charter.
Us. NORRIS, Speaker of II. Of R.
VIM. p. MURRAY, Pres't Council.
Approved March I'd, 1855.
w. A. GORMAN.
hereby certify the foregoing to be q correct copy
OF the original act on file in this Office.
- J. TRAVIS ROSSER,
Secretary Of Minnesota Territory.
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