St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-03-21
The Act of Incorporation of the
Lake Superior Railroad.

The ACT of Incorporation of the
Lake Superior Railroad.
From the St. Anthony News.
The Pioneer Of Sunday publishes the
above act in full. As it interests our read
crs deeply, we join tho following abstract
Of its provisions.
Section l. Incorporates Lyman Dayton,
John McKintosh, Henry A. Swift, Rich
ard Chute, Dwight Woodbury., G. 7. Stearns
E. 0. Hamlin, Leyi Butler, Thomas Clark,
Sidney Luce, A. F. Harding and A. G.
Chatdeld, Of the State of Minnesota, Arson
Blake, Orville Clark, Erastus Corning, of
the State Of New York, Eben Ward, and
A. Fl. Hanchett, Of Michigan, and their
associates, successors and assigns, under
tho name Of "Tho Superior and Mississip pi
Railroad Company"
Section 2. Authorizes the Company to
construct and operate Railroad "to COM
mcnce at some convenient point or place,
within the State Of Minnesota at tho west
end Of Lake Superior, and running thence
by the most feasible route within this State
to some point on the Mississi ppi, with the
right to extend the same to the Minnesota
river; and also with the right to construct
a branch from the main line to the navi-
gable waters of the St. Croix, 4 X pro-
vide'1, the said company shall commence
the grading and construction Of said road
at Superior, and continue the construction
thereof towards the Mississippi river, and
shall first build the said main line to said
Mississippi river"
Section 3. Provides for election Of scv-
en- Directors, at least three Of whom shall
reside in the State of Minnesota.
Scction7. Grants right Of way for two
hundred feet in width, also the right to
center upon and take possession Of and
uso any lands, timber, streams and materi-
al of any kind, for the purpose of making
the survey and fixing the location of said
railroad and Of all stations, depots, turn
outs &c."
Land thus appropriated belonging to tho
State to be paid for, at price fixed by
the Governor, for the benefit of the school
fund.
Section 8. Provides for an apprisal OF
lands of private individuals thus appropri-
atcd, and compensation to the owners
thereof.
Section Q. Authorizes consolidation with
any other company, having tho same gen.
eral direction or location or merging
therein, by way of substitution.
Section IL. Provides that tho fee SIM
pie of all lands granted by the Congress Of
the U. s., for the purpose of aiding in the
construction of said road, may be directly
granted to said company, and said compa-
ny may convey said lands as soon and as
often as FIVE miles of said road shall be |
constructed and completed and the track
in running order. The grant shall be
good so far as made and shall not become
void, nor the company be dissolvd by the
non completion Of the entire extent of
said road. The Legislature reserves the
right to make any restrictions as to time
and terms Of sale of such lands.
Section IS. If said company shall with
in one year, organize and locate the line
Of the said road, and within two years grade
at least twenty continuous miles Of the
same from Lake Superior, and shall with
in tivo years complete and put in full op-
Grafton first class railroad from Lake Su-
perior to the Mississippi, this section grants
to it in fee all the swamp land for seven
miles on either side of said line, and of
its extension and its branch, and as soon
ond as fast as each twenty miles arc COM
pletcd and in operation.
After the location of the road, the
swamp lands are to be withheld from mar
ket Provided, the whole of said road
extension and branch shall be completed
within ten years.
The lands not to be subject to taxation
while the fec remains in the company
provided the company shall dispose of all
said lands within ten years of obtaining
tho title of them.
If swamp lands within the seven mile
limits are already sold, an equal amount
Of swamp land outside these limits is to
be substituted; and in case the quantity
of these lands within these seven mile linn
its shall not amount in the whole to at
least seven full sections per mile, this de-
6cioncyis to be made up from other swamp
lands between the Mississippi River, Lake |
Superior aud Rainy Lake.
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