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OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed Mt the Second Session OF the
81 Thirty-seventh Congress.
Public.-No. oS.

81 Thirty-seventh Congress.
Prlblic.-No. oS.
An ACT to aid in the construction of railroad and
telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pa
cifc ocean, and to secure to the Government the
use ofthe same for postal, military and other
purposes
BE Il eisucsd blythe Senate and House Of Representa-
tires ofthe United States Of america - Congress as
sembled That Walter S. Burgess, William z. Blod-
- get, Benjamin IL. Cheeyer, Charles FOsdick Fletc
or, of Rhode Island Augustus Brewster, Henry p.
Haven Cornelius $. Bushnell, Henry Hammond,
of Connecticut; Isaac sherman, Dean Richmond,
Royal Phelds, William Ii. Ferry, Henry Pad
dock, Lewis J. Stanclif, Charles A. Secor, Samuel
r. Campbell, Alfred T.. Tilton, John Anderson,
8 Azariah aBoodv John s Kenneday. Il Carver
Joseph Field Benjamin +. Camp, 0ryille w
saChilds, Alexander J. Bergen Ben. Holiday, ID.
Nerney, S. De Witt Bloodgood William II. Grant,
Thomas w. Alcott, Samuel b. Ruggles, James b.
Wilson, Of New York Ephraim Marsh, Charles NJ.
marker OF New Jersey J0hn Edgar thompson,
Benjamin Haywood, Joseph H. Scranton, Joseph
Harrison, George w Cass, John IL. Bryant, Dan
--ielJ. Morel Thomas NJ Howe William F. john
son, Robert Ftnney, John n. Green, Il. R. Myre,
Charles +. Wells, jr., Of Pennsylvania; Noah L.
W ilson, Amasa Stone, William II. Clement, s. 5.
LTonlmedjju, John Brough, William Dennison,
Z Jacob Blinkinsderfer, of 0hiO william M. Me
I=Pherson, Il. w. Wells, Willard p. Hail. Arm
strong Beatty, John Corby, of Missouri -. Hens
ley, Peter DOnahue, C.P. Huntington, L. Judah,
james Bailey, james 7. Ryan, Charles Hosmer,
Charles Marsh, D. o. Mills Samuel Bell Louis
McLane, George w. Move, Charles Mclaughlin,
Timothy Dame John r. Robinson, of California;
John At hisOn and John d. Winters, of the Terri
tory Of Nevada Johu y. COmpbell r.. N Rice,
Charles A. TrobE6ige, and Ransom Gardner,
Charles w. Penny, Charles T.Gorhanl, William
.-McConnell, of Michigan William +. Coolbaugh,
@Lucius II. Langwortiy, Hugh I. Reid, Hoyt
Sherman, Lyman Cook Samuel II. Curtis, Lewis
A. Thomas, Platt Smith, of Iowa william b. Og
den, Charles G. Hammond, Henry Farnum, Amos
c Babcock, W. Selden Gale, Nehemiah Bushnell,
and Lorenzo Bull of Illinois, William II. Swift,
Samuel 7. Dana, John Bertfam, Franklin s. Steph-
ems, Edward II. Tinker, of Massachusetts, Frank
lin CORN, Laban J. Bradford, and join T. Lewis,
of Kentucky; J Imes Dunning, John NJ. Wood,
Edwin Noyes, Joseph Eaton of Maine; Henry II.
Baxter George W. CoIlamer Henry Reyes sham
ii. Garfield, of Vermont; William S. Laid, A.
M. Berry, Benjamin II. Harding, of Oregon,
William Bum, jr., John Catlin, Levi Sterling,
John Thompson, Elihu L. Philips, Walter, d. Nc
Indoe, I. B. Stoddard f. III. Broadhead, A. II.
Virgin, of Wisconsin; Charles Paine, Thomas A.
Norris David C. Branham, Samuel Hanna Jonas
Votaw, Jesse L. Williams Isaac G. Elston, of Indi-
ana Thomas Swan, Chauneey Brooks, Edward
Wilkins of Maryland; Francis r. Il. Cornell, Da-
vid Blakely A. ID. Seward, Henry A. Swift,
Dwight Woodbury., John McKusi, k, John r.
Jones, of Minnesota Joseph A. Gilmore, Charles
W. Woodman, of New Hampshire; w. H. Grimes,
J. c. Stone Chester Thomas John Kerr, Werter
r. Davis. Luther G. Challiss, Josiah Miller, of
Kansas; Gilbert G. Mcneil and Augustus Kountz,
7. NJ. Marquette William II. Taylor, Alvin Saun-
ders, of Nebraska; 10 hn Evans, of Colorado; to-
gether with five commissioners to be appointed by
the Secretary of the Interior, and all persons who
shall or may be associated with them, and their
successors are hereby created and erected into
body corporate and polite in deed and in law, by
the name, STYLE and title of ''The Union Pacific
Railroad Company; and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be de-
Tended, in all courts Of law and equity within tn
United States and may make and have a ON
mon seal and the said corporation is hereby
thorized and empowered to lay out, locate, con-
struct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy continuous
railroad and telegraph, with the appurtcnances from
point on the one hundredth meridian Of longi-
tude west from Greenwich, between the south mar
gin of the valley of the Republican River and t
north margin Of the valley of the Platte river in
the Territory of Nebraska, to the western boun-
of da rifQry Tho aU1t
hereinafter provided, and is hereby vested with all
the powers, privileges, and immunites necessary
10 carry into effect the purposes of this act as here
in set forth The ,apital stock of said company
shall consist of one hundred shares ofone thou
sand dollars each, which shall be subscribed for
and held in not more than two hundred shares by
any one person, and shall be transferable in such
as the bylaws of said corporation shall
provide The persons hcreinbefore named, togeth-
err with those TO be appointed by the Secretary of
the Interior, are hereby constituted and appointed
- commissioners, and such body ssall be called the
Board of Commissioners of the Union Pacific Rail-
road and Telegraph Company, aud twenty-five
shall constitute quorum for the transaction Of
= business. The first meeting of said board shall be
held at Chicago at such time the commissioners
from Illinois herein named shall appoint, more
than three nor less an one month after the pas
sage ofthis act, notice Of which shall be given by
them to the other commissioners by depostinga
call thereofn the post office at Chicago, post paid,
to their address, at least forty days before said
meeting, and also by publishing said notice in one
daily newspaper in each Of the cities of Chicago,
and saint Louis. Said board shall organize by the
choice from its number Of president secretary,
and treasurer, and they shall require from said
treasurer such bonds may be deemed proper, and
NAV from time TO time increase the amount thereof
al thew NAV deem proper. IL shall be the duty, OF
said board of commissioners to open books or
cause books to be opened at such time and in such
principal cities in the United States as they or
quorum of them shall determine, to receive sub
scriptions to the capital stock OF said corporation
and cash payment OF ten per eehluin on al SUI
scriDtions and to receipt therefor. so soon as two
thousand shares shall be in good faith subscribed
for and ten dollars per share actually paid into the
treasury Of the company, the SAID presiaent
and secretary Of said board OF commissioners snail
appont time and place for the fret meeting OF the
subscribers to the stock Of said company and shal
give notice thereof in at least one newspaper IN
each State in which subscription books have been
opened at least thirty days previous to the day OF
meeting, and such Subscribers shall attend tine
meeting called, either in person or by proxy
shall then and there elect by ballot not less than
thirteen directors for said corporation and in
such election each share of said capital shall entte
the owner thereof TO vote. The president and
secretary of the board Of commissioners shall
inspectors ofsaid election, aud shall certify under
their hands the names Of the directors elected at
said. meeting; and the said commissioners. treas
urer and secretary hall then deliver overto said
directors all the properties, subscription books
and other books in their possession, and thorcup-
on the duties of such commissioners and the off
cers previously appointed by them fshall cea =
and determine forever, and thereafter the stock
hoIders shall constitute said body polite andcor-
norats Attbe time of the hrst and each trlehnial
Hitio1, ofd irccfors ly the sto kholders two sddi
fionaI directors shall be appointed by the Rresi
dent OF the United States, who shall ACT WIN tht
hodv Of directors aud to be denominated dlreStor'
on the part Of the Government. Any vacancy nap
psni1g "a the Government directors q. any .IiIn'
NAV be 6lIed by The President ofthe United 5ates
1bs directorS 10 be appointed byrthe PresidenI