Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-05
oFFICIAL.
Laws OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at The Second Session Of TIE Thirty
SeUenH Congress.

An ACT to aid in the construction of "a rail-
road and telegraph line from the Mis-
souri, 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 aud House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That Wal
ter S. Burgess, William P. Blodget, Benja-
min II. Cheeyer, Charles Eos lick Fletcher,
of Rhode Island; Augustus Brewster, Hem
~ p. Haven, Corneliusr S. Bushell, Hen
rY Hammond, Of Connecticut; Isaac Sher-
man, Dean Richmond, Royal Phelps, Viii
liam H. Ferry, Henry A. Paddock, Lewis
]. Stauclifr. Charles a. Secor, Samuel r.
Campbell, Alfred E. Tilton, John Ander-
Carver, Joseph Field, BENJAMIN F. Camp,
Orville w. Childs, Alexander j. Bergen,
Ben, Holiday, d. N. Barney, S. De Witt
BIoodgood, William Il Grant, Thomas w.
oIcott, Samuel B. Ruggles, James b. Will
son, of New York Ephraim Marsh, Charles
81. Harker, of New Jersey John Edgar
Thompson, Benjamin Haywood, Joseph II.
Scranton, Joseph Harrison, George W. Csss,
John II. Bryant, Daniel j. Morell, Thomas
81. Howe, William F. johnson, Robert Fin
ney, John A. Green, Z r. II yre, Charles F.
Wells, junior, of Pennsylvania; Noah l..
Wilson, Amasa Stone, William H. Clement,
S. S. L'Hommedieu, John Brough, William
Dennison, Jacob Blickinskerfer, of Ohio
William NJ. Mcpherson, II. W. Wells, Will
lard P. Hall, Armstrong Beatty, John Cor
by, of Missouri; s. ]. Hensley, Peter DON
ahue, g. P. Huntington, 7. D. Judah, Jas.
Bailey, James II. Ryan, Charles Hosmer,
Chas. Marsh, d. o. Mills, Sam'l Bell, Louis
McLane, Geo. w. Move, Chas. Mclaughlin
Timothy Dame, John r. Robinson, of Cali
fornia; John Atchisou and John D. Win.
ters, of the Territory Of Nevada; John D.
Campbell, R. n. Rice, Charles A. Trow-
bridge, and Ransom Gardner, Charles w.
Penny, Charles T. Gorham, William Nc
Connell, of Michigan; William F. Cool
baugh; Lucius II. LangWorthy, Hugh T.
Reid, Hoyt Sherman, Lyman Cook, Samuel
r. Curtis, Lewis A. Thomas, Platt Smith
of Iowa; William B. Ogden, Charles G.
Hammond, Henry FarDum, Amos o. Bah,
cock, w. Selden Gale, Nehemiah Bushnell
and Lorenzo Bull, of Illinois; William II
Swift, Samuel T. Dana, John Bertram
Franklin S. Stevens, Edward r. Tinker, o.
Massachusetts; Franklin Gorin, Laban j
Bradford, and John 7. Lewis, of Kentucky
James Dunuing, John NJ. Wood, Edwin
Noyes, Joseph Eaton, of Maine; Henry II
Baxter, George w. Collamer, Henry Keyes
Thomas Il. Garfield, Of Vermont; William
s. Lndd, A. NJ. Berry, Benjamin F. Hard
ing, of Oregon; William Bum, Junior
John Catliu, Levi Sterling, John Thomp.
son, Eiihu l.. Phillips, Walter d. McIndoe
T. b. Stoddard, E. H. Brodhead, a. H. Vir.
gin, of Wisconsin; Charles Paine, Thomas
/ A. Morris, David g. Branham, Samuel
Hanna, Jonas Votaw, Jesse L. Williams,
Isaac G. Elston, of Indiana; Thomas Swan
Cnauucey Brooks, Edward wilkins, Of
Maryland; Francis r. E. Cornell, David
Blakely, A. D. Seward, Henry A. Swift
Dwight Woodbury., John McKusick, JOhu
r. Jones, of Minnesota Joseph A. Gil.
more, Charles W. WOodman, of New Hamp.
shire; W. Fl. Grimes, ] O.. Stone, Chester
Thomas, John Kerr, WerterAR B. Davis
Luther o. Challiss, Josiah Miller Of
Kansas; Gilbert o. Monnell aud Au.
gustus Kountz, Il. II. Marquette, Will
liam Il. Taylor. Alvin Saunders, Of
Nebraska; John Evans, of Colorado; to-
gether with Eve commissioners TO be ap-
pointed by the Secretary of the Interior,
and all persons who shall or may be asso-
ciated with them; and their successors are
hereby created and erected into n body cor
porate 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, aud
shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, defend and be defended, in
all courts of law aud equity within the
United States, and may make and lave 4
common seal; and the said corporation il
hereby authorized and empowered 70 lay
out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain,
and enjoy q continuous railroad Gnd tels-