Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-02

Passed at As Ssesxd SesSoH 81 FAs 1h~sy'Sse'"m
Congress.
GPusLIo--No. l2o.l

IPuBLIo-No. 100
An Acr TO aid in the construction OF railroad
and telegraph line from the Missouri river 10
the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the Gov
eminent the use Of the same for postal, milf
tsry and other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
ressatdtiUes of The United States of America IN
Congress assembled, That Walter S Burgess,
William p Blodget, Benjamin n. Cheever,
Charles Fosdck Fletcher of Rhode Island Au'
gustus Brewster, Henry p. Haven, Cornelius b J,
Bushnell, Henry Hammond, OF Connecticut
Isaac Sherman, Dean Richmond, Royal Phelps,
William H. Ferry Henry A. Paddock, Lewis j,
Staucliff, Charles A. Secor, Samuel r, Camp
bell, Alfred E, rilton, John Anderson, Azarish
Body, Jyhu s. Kennedy II, Carver, Joseph
Field, Benjamin f. Camp, 0ryille w Childs
Alexander J. Bergen, Ben. Holiday, d. N.
Barney, S. DE Witt Boodgood, William IL.
Grant, Thomas W, 0lcott, Samuel B. Iuggles
James B. Wilson, Of New York Ephraim
Marsh, Charles NJ, Harker, of New Jersey;
John Edgar Thompson, Benjamin HAYWOOD,
Joseph III, Scranton, Joseph Harrison, George
w Cass, John II. Bryant Daniel j. Morell,
Thomas M. Howe, William +. Johnson Robert
Fnney, John A. Green, 4. II Myre, Charles +.
Wells, Junior, of Pennsylvania Noah L Will
son, Amass Stone, William FL. Clement, s. s.
L'Hommedieu, John Brough, William DENIM
son, Jacob Bllckinsderfer, of Ohio William NJ.
Mcpherson, r w. Wells, Willard P. Hall,
Armstrong Beatty John Corby, of Missouri;
s. j. Hensley Peter Donahue, c. p. Hunting
ton, T. ID. Judah, James Bailey, james I, Ry
an Charles Hosmer, Charles Marsh, u, o. Mills,
Samuel Bell, Louis McLane, George w. Move,
Charles Mclaughlin, Timothy Dame, John r.
Robinson, of California John Atchison and
John ID. Winters, of the Territory of Nevada /,
John y. Campbell, r. N Rice, Charles A.
Trowbridge, and Ransom Gardner, Charles w.
Penny, Charles Il. Gorham, William McCon-
NELL of Michigan, William +, Coolbsugh, Lu.
cius III. Langworthy, Hugh I. Ried, Hoyt Sher-
man, Lyman Cook, Samuel Il. Curtis, Lewis A.
Thomas, Plat Smith, of Iowa; William B. 0g-
den, Charles G. Hammond, Henry Farnum,
Amos G. Babcock, w. Selden Gale, Nehemiah
BUSHNELL and Lorenzo Bull of Illinois Will
liam H. Swift, Samuel T, Dana, John Bertram,
Franklin s, Stevens, Edward r, Tinker, of
Massachusetts; Franklin CORN, Labau j Brad
ford, and John, T., Lewis, of Kentucky; James
Dunning, John M. Wood, Edwin Noyes, Joseph
Eaton, Of Maine; Henry FL Baxter, George w.
Colamer Henry Reyes, Thomas H, Canfeld,
of Vermont; William S, Ladd, A. M Berry,
Benjamin f. Harding, of Oregon William
Bum, junior, John Catlin, Levi terling, John
Thompson. Elihu L. Phillips, Walter D, McIn.
doe, L, B Stoddard E. H, Broadhead A. III.
Virgin, of Wisconsin Charles Paine, Thomas
A. Morris David G. Branham, Samuel Hanna,
Jonas Votaw, Jesse L. Williams, Isaac G. Els.
ton, of Indiana Thomas Swan, Chauncey
Brooks, Edward wilkins, of Maryland; Fran
els r. E. Cornell, David Biskely, A. D Sew.
ard Henry A. Swift, Dwight Woodbury. 10
seph A. Gilmore, Charles w Woedman, of
NJ VI MaK ,sso Iob,
of Minnesota w. FL. Grimes, j. C. Stone,
Chester Thomas, John Kerr, Werter r. Davis,
Luther G. Challiss, Josiah Miller, Of Kansas,
Gilbert G.. Mcneil and Augustus Kouutz, T. M.
Marquette, William HI. Taylor, Alvin Sauu
ders, of Nebraska John Evans of Colorado;
together 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 @Fhe I'm
ion Pacific Railroad Company" and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall
be able to sue and to be sued plead aud be i'm
pleaded, defend and be defended, i'll all courts of
law and equity within the United States, aud
may make and have common seal and the
said corporation is hereby authorized and EN-,
powered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish,
maintain, and enjoy continuous railroad and
telegraph, with the appurtenances, from point
on the one hundredth meridian oflongitude west
from Greenwich, between the south margin Of
the valley of the Republican river and the north
margin of the valley of the Platte river, in the
Territory OF Nebraska, to the western bounda-
ry of Nevada Territory, upon the route and
terms hereinafter provided, audis hereby vested
with all the powers, privileges, and immunities
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 thousand dollars each,
which shall be subscribed for and held in not
more than two hundred shares by any one per-
son, and shall be transferable ID such manner as
the by laws of said corporation shall provide
| The persons hereinbefore named together with
| those to be appointed by the Secretary of the
Interior, are hereby constituted and appointed
commissioners, and such body shall be called
the Board of Commissioners of the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad and Telegraph Company, aud
| twenty five shall constitute quorum for the
| transaction OF business The Grst 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 call thereof in
AS Pooe oAAASS ~ PSsA P"'"s W thoh ~
dress, at least forty days before said meeting,
and also hv publishing said notice in ore daily
newspaper IN each of the cities of Chicago and
Saint Louis. Said board shall organize BY the
choice from its hunter of q president, secretary,
and treasurer, and they shall require from SAID
treasurer such bonds as may be deemed proper,
and may from time 70 time increase the amount
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, al such
times and in such principal cities in the United
States as they or quorum of them shall deter
nine, to receive subscriptions to the capital
stock of said corporation, and q cash payment
of ten per centum on all subscriptions, 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 tho
treasury of the company, the said president and
secretary of said board of commissioners shall
appoint time and place for the first meeting of
the subscribers to the stock OF said company,
and shall give notice hereof in at least one news
paper in each State in which subscription books
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