Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-30

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress.


AN ACT to aid in the construction of a rail-
road and telegraph line from the Missouri
river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to
the government the use of the same for
postal, military, and other purposes
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that Walter S.
Burgess, William P. Blodget, Benjamin H.
Cheever, Charles Fosdick Fletcher. of Rhode
Island; Augustus Brewster, Henry p. Haven,
Cornelius S. Bushnell, Henry Hammond of
Connecticut; Isaac Sherman, Dean Rich
mond, Royal Phelps, William H. Ferry. Hem
ry A. Paddock Lewis j. Stancliff, Charles A.
Secor, Samuel r. Campbell, Alfred L. Tilton,
John Anderson, Azariah Boody, John S. Ken
nedy, Ii. Carver, Joseph Field, Benjamin f.
Camp, Orville W. Childs, Alexander J. Ber-
gen, Ben. Holiday, d. n. Barney, S. De
Witt Bloodgood, William H. Grant, Thomas
W. Olcott, Samuel B. Ruggles, James b. Will
son, OF New York; Ephraim Marsh, Charles
M. Harker, of New Jersey; John Edgar
Thompson, Benjamin Haywood, Joseph II.
Scranton, Joseph Harrison, George W. Cass,
John IL. Bryant, Daniel j. Morell, Thomas
NJ. Howe, William f. johnson, Robert Fin
ney, John A. Green, E. r. Myre, Charles f.
Wells, Junior, of Pennsylvania; Noah l..
Wilson, Amasa Stone, William H. Clement.
5. 5. L'Hommedieu, John Brough, William
Dennison, Jacob Blickinsdeifer, of Ohio:
William NJ. Mcpherson, r. w. Wells, Will
lard 2. Hall, Armstrong Beatty, John Corby.
OF Missouri; S. j. Hensley, Peter Donahue,
c. G. Huntington, L. ID. Judah, James Bal
ley, james I. Ryan, Charles Hosmer, Charles
Marsh, D. o. Mills, Samuel Bell, Louis Nc
Lane, George W. Move, Charles McLaugh-
lin, Thomas Dame, John r. Robinson, of
California; John Atkinson and John d. Win
tiers, of the territory of Nevada; John ID.
Campbell, r. n. Rice, Charles A. Trow-
bridge, and Ransom Gardner, Charles w.
Penny, Charles I. Gorham, William McCon-
nell, of Michigan; William F. Coolbaugh.
Luclus ii Langworthy, Hugh L. Reid, Hoyt
Sherman, Lyman Cook Samuel Il. Curtis.
Lewis A. Thomas, Plat Smith. of Iowa: Will
liam b. Ogden, Charles G. Hammond, Henry
Farnum, Amos c. Babcock, w. Selden
Gale, Nehemiah Bushnell, and Lorenzo Bull.
of Illinois, William II. Swift. Samuel r.
Dana, John Bertram, Franklin S. Stevens
Edward r. Tinker, of Massachusetts Frank.
lin CORN, Laban j. Bradford, and John r.
Lewis, of Kentucky; James Dunning, John
M. Wood, Edwin Noyes, Joseph Eaton, of
Maine; Henry II. Baxter, George W Cola
mer, Henry Reyes, Thomas H. Garfield, of
Vermont; William S. Ladd, A. NJ. Berry.
Il iAii NlilS, VI OTGROHs William
Bum, Junior, John Catlin, Levi Sterling.
John Thompson, Elihu L. Phillips, Walter
ID. McIndoe, T. II. Stoddard, L. H. Brod
head, A. H. Virgin, of Wisconsin; Charles
Paine, Thomas A. Morris, David C, Bran
ham, Samuel Hanna, Jonas Votaw, Jesse l..
Williams, Isaac c. Elston, of Indiana; Thorn
as Swan, Chauncey Brooks, Edward Will
klns, of Maryland; Francis r. E. Cornell.
David Blakely, A. d. Seward, Henry A.
Swift, Dwight Woodbury., John McCusick,
John r. Jones, of Minnesota; Josesh A
Gilmore, Charles w. Woodman. of New
Hampshire; w. H. Grimes, j. c. Stone.
Chester Thomas, John Kerr, Werter r. Da-
Wis, Luther C. Challiss, Josiah Miller. of
Kansas; Gilbert C. Mcneil and Augustus
Kountz, 7. NJ. Marquette, William Fl. Tay-
Tor, Alvin Saunders, of Nebraska; John Ey-
ans, OF Colorado; together with five com
missioners to be appointed by the secretary of
the interior, and all persons who may OF shall
be associated with them, and their successors
are hereby created and erected into a body
corporate in deed and in law, by the name.
style and title of '',rhe Union Pacific railroad
company;" and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and shall be able to sue
and to be sued, plead and be implicated, de-
lend and be defended, in all courts of law and
equity within the United States and NAV
make and have common seal; and the said
corporation is hereby authorized and empow-
cred to lay out, locate, construct, furnish.
maintain, and eniov CONT;
Union TO the meJgF. II 4bnd0us ra1fr6ad anti
telegraph, with the appurtenances, from a
point on the one hundredth meridian of long
tude west from Greenwich, between the soutf
margin of the valley of the Republic
can river and the north margin of tho
Of Inft
OF Nebraska, to the western boundary O.
Nevada territory, upon the route and terms
hereinafter provided, and is here vest
ed with all the powers, privileges, and i'm
munitIes necessary to carry into effect the
purposes of this act as herein set forth. The
capital stock of said company shall consist of
one hundred thousand shares of one 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 trans
ferable in such manner as the bylaws of said
corporation shall provide. The persons here
inbefore named, together with those to be ap-
pointed by the secretary of the interior. are
hereby constituted and appointed commission
ers, and such body shall be called the board
OF commissioners of the Union Pacific rail
road and telegraph company, and twenty-five
shall constitute quorum for the transaction
of business. The first meeting of said board
shall be held at Chicago at such time as the
commissioners from Illinois herein named
shall appoint, not more than three nor less
than one month after the passage of this act.
notice OF which shall be given by Them to the
other commissioners by depositing a call
thereof in the post Office at Chicago, posi-
paid to their address, at least forty days before
said meeting, and also by publishing said no
tice in one daily newspaper in each of the
cities of Chicago and st. Louis. Said boarC
shall organize by the choice from its number
OF president, secretary, and treasurer
and they shall require from said treasurer
such bonds as may be deemed proper and
may from time to time increase the amoun
thereof as they may deem proper. 1t shall
be the duty of said board of commissioners
to open books, or cause books to be opened
at such times and in such principal cities in
the United States as they or quorum o.
them shall determine, to receive subscription.
to the capital stock Of said corporation, and c
cash payment of ten per centum on all sub
scriptions, and to receipt therefor. SO soor
as two thousand shares shall be in good faith
subscribed for, and ten dollars per share ac-
tually paid into the treasury of the company
the said president and secretary of said board
Of commissioners shall appoint a time anc
place for the first meeting of the subscribers
to the stock of said company, and shall 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 as
shall attend the meeting so 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
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