Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-09-04
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty
seventh Congress.
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seventh Congress. b..
PUBILc-No. 9S.
AN ACT to aid in the construction of
q railroad and telegraph line from
the Missouri river to the Pacific
ocean, and to secure to the Govern
mcnt the use of the same for postal,
military, and other purposes.
Be IL enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of The United States
Of Amerioa IN Congress assembled, That
Walter S. Burgess, William p. Blod-
get, Cenjamin II. Chccver, Charles
Fosdick Fletcher, of Rhode Island I;
Augustus Brewster, Henry p. Haven,
Cornelius S. Bushnell, Henry Ham
mond, of Connecticut Isaac Sbcr-
man, Dean Richmond, Royal Phelps,
William II Ferry. Henry A. Paddock,
Lewis j. Stancliff, Charles A. Sccor,
Samuel X. Campbell, Alfred f. Tilton,
John Anderson, Azaria Body, John
S. Kennedy. II. Carver, Joseph Field,
Benjamin +. Camp, Orvillc w. Childs,
Alexander j. Bergen, Ben. Holiday,
d. N. Barney, S. Dewitt Bloodgood,
William H. Grant, Thomas w. Olcott,
Samuel d. Rugglcs, James b. Wilson,
Of New York Ephraim Marsh, Charles
N. Harker, of New Jersey John Ed.
gar Thompson, BENJAMIN Haywood,
Joseph H. Scranton, Joseph Harrison,
George w. Cass, John Ii. Bryant,
Daniel j. Morell, Thomas NJ. Howe,
William F. johnson, Robert Finaey,
John A.. Green, E. r. Myrc, Charles
F. Wells. junior, of Pennsylvania I;
Noah L. Wilson, Amasa Stone. William
II. Clement. S. S. L'IIommedieu, John
Brough, William Dcnmson, Jacob
Blickinsderfcr. Of Ohio; William NJ Nc
Phcrson, X. w. Wells, Willard p. Hall,
Armstrong Beatty, John Corby, of
Missouri F; S. j. Hensley. Peter Dona-
hue, G. p. Huntington, T. ID. Judah,
James Bailey, James I. Ryan, Charles
Hosmcr. Charles Marsh, d. U. Mills,
Samuel Bell. Louis McLanc, George
w. Move, Charles Mclaughlin, Timo-
thy Dame, John r. Robinson, Of Cali
fornia John Atchison and John d.
Winters, of the Territory Of Nevada !;
John ID. Campbell, L. N. Rice, Charles
A. Trowbridge, and Ransom Gardner,
Charles w. Penny, Charles 4. Cor
ham, William Mcdonnell, of Michigan;
William +. Coolbaugh, Lucius ii.
Langworthy, Hugh T. Reid, Hoyt
Sherman, Lyman Cook, Samuel Il. Cut
tis, Lewis A. Thomas, Platt Smith, Of
Iowa William b. Ogden, Charles G.
Hammond, Henry Farnum, Amos q
Babcock, w. Selden Gale, Nehemi-
all Bushnell, and Lorenzo Bull, Of Illi-
nois William ii. Swift, Samuel L.
Dana, John Bertram, Franklin S. Ste
vcns, Edward r. Tinker, Of Massachu-
sctts Franklin CORN, Laban j. Brad
ford, and John I. Lewis, of Kentucky;
James Dunning. John NJ. Wood, Edwin
Noyes, Joseph Eaton, Of Maine Hen
ry IL. Baxter, George w. Collamer,
Henry keyes, Thomas H. Garfield, of
Vermont William S. Ladd, A. NJ. Ber-
ry, Benjamin +. Harding, of Oregon ;
William Bum, junior, John Catlin,
Levi Sterling, John Thompson, Elihu
L. Phillips, Walter ID. McIndoe, L. b.
Stoddard, f. II. Brodhead, A. Ii. Vir.
gin, of Wisconsin; Charles Paine,
Thomas A. Morris, David c. Branham,
Samuel Hanna, Jonas Votaw,s Jesse
L. Williams, Isaac G. Elston, Of lndi'
ana Thomas Swan, Chauncey Brooks
Edward Wilkins, of Maryland f; Fran
cis X. Z. Cornell, David Blakely. A
d. Seward, Henry A. Swift, Dwigh'
Woodbury., John McKusick, John X
Jones, Of Minnesota /; Joseph A. Gil
more, Charles w. Woodman. Of New
Hampshire !; w. ii. Grimes, j., C
Stone, Chester Thomas, John Kerr
Werter Il. Davis, Luther c.. Challiss
Josiah Miller, Of Kansas Gilbert G
Mcneil and Augustus Kountz, I. N
Marquette, William II. Taylor, Alvin
Saunders, Of Nebraska; John Evans
of Colorado /; together with five com
missioncrs to be appointed by tn
Secretary Of the Interior, and all pei
sons who shall or may be ASSOCIATED
with them, and their successors ar
hereby created and erected into
body corporate and polite in dee,
and in law, by the name, style, an,
title of "The onion Pacific Railroa,
Company" and by that name shal
have perpetual succession, and shal
I've able to sue and to be sued, plea
and be impleaded, defend and be dc
Tended, in all courts of law and equit
within the United States, and ma
make and have o common seal; an
the said corporation is hereby author
) ized and empowered to lay out. loeat,
construct, furnish, maintain. and el
. joy q continuous railroad and tel,
graph, with the appurtenances, from
point On tho one hundredth merida
Of longitude west from Greenwich, b
tween the south margin Of the valle
Of the Republican river and the mort
margin OF the valley Of the Platte Ri
er, in, the Territory of INcbrask
! TO the western boundary Of N
vada Territory, upon the route au
! terms hereinafter provided, and /
. hereby vested with all the power
privileges, and immunities necessar
7 to carry iuto effect the purposes ,
this act as herein set forth, The cal
ital stock Of said company shall col
sist Of one hundred thousand share
of one thousand dollars each, whic
y shall be subscribed for aud held
not more than two hundred shares b
any one person, and shall be transfe
able in such manner as the bylaws {
said corporation shall provide. I'll
/ | persons hcreinbcfore named, togetle
with those to be appointed by III
Secretary of the Interior, are hefeb
constituted and appointed comml
ISinnnrs and sueh holy shall bc callc