Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-20

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performance of his duties, and such oath
shall be entered upon the records of the
company, signed by him, and the oath
verified thereon. The'president and Sec
rotary of said board shall in like manner
call all other meetings, naming the time
and place thereof. 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
or other places in the United States as
they or a quorum of them shall determine,
within six months after the passage of this
act, to receive subscriptions to the CAPT
tai stock of said corporation, and cash
payment of ten per centum on all sub
scriptions, and to receipt therefor. So
soon as twenty thousand shares shall in
good faith be, subscribed for, and ten dol
lars per share actually paid into the treas
ury of the company, the said president
and secretary of said board of commits
sioners shall appoint time and place for
the first meeting of the subscribers to the
stock of said company, and shall give no
tice thereof in at least one newspaper in
each State in which subscription books
have been opened, at least fifteen days
previous TO the day of meeting, and such
subscribers as shall attend the meeting so
called, either in person or by lawful proxy,
then and there shall elect by ballot thir-
teen directors for said corporation; and in
such election each share shall entitle the
owner thereofto one vote. The president
and secretary of the board of commission
ers, and, in case of their absence or ina
bility, any two of the officers of said board,
shall act as inspectors of said election,
and shall certify under their hands the
names of the directors elected at said
meeting; and the said commissioners,
treasurer, and secretary, shall then deliv-
er over to said directors allthe properties,
subscription books, and other books in
their possession, and thereupon the du-
ties of said commissioners and the Off
GERS previously appointed by them shall
cease and determine forever, and there
after the stockholders shall constitute
said body polite and corporate. Annual
meetings of the stockholders of the said
corporation for the choice of officers
when they are to be chosen) and for the
transaction of business shall be holden at
such time and place and upon such notice
as may be prescribed in the bylaws.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the right of way through the public lands
be and the same is hereby granted to the
said Northern Pacific Railroad Compa-
n.y." its successors and assigns, for the
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as proposed; and the right, power, and
authority is hereby given to said corpora
ton to take from the public lands, ada
cent to the line of said road, material of
earth, stone, timber, and so forth, for the
construction thereof Said way is grant
ed to said railroad to the extent of two
hundred feet in width on each side of said
railroad where it may pass through the
public domain, including all necessary
grounds for station buildings, workshops,
depots, machine shops, switches, side
tracks, turn tables, and water stations;
and the right of way shall be exempt from
taxation within the Territories of the Uni
ted States. The United States shall ex
tinguish,, as rapidly as may be consistent
with public policy and the welfare of the
falling under the operatin of this act, and
acquired in the donation to the [road1
named in this bill.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
there be and hereby is granted to the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company"
its successors and assigns, for the pur
pose of aiding in the construction of said
railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific
coast, and to secure the safe and speedy
transportation of the mails, troops, muni-
tons of war, and public stores, over the
route of said line of railway, every alter
nate section of public land, not mineral,
designated by odd numbers, to the
amount of twenty alternate sections per
mile, on each side of said railroad line,
as said company may adopt, through the
Territories of the United States, and item
alternate sections of land per mile on each
side of said railroad whenever it passes
through any States, and whenever, on the
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title, not reserved, sold, granted, or other
wise appropriated, aud free from pre-
emption, or other claims or rights, at the
time theli of said road is definitely fixed,
and plat thereof filed in the office of
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office; and whenever, prior to said time,
any of said sections or parts of sections
shall have been granted, sold, reserved,
occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-
empted, or otherwise disposed of, other
lands shall be selected by said company
in lieu thereof, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, in alternate
sections, and designated by odd numbers,
not more than ten miles beyond the linn
its of said alternate sections: Provided;
That if said route shall be found upon the
line of any other railroad route to aid in
the construction of which lands have been
heretofore granted by the United States,
as far as the routes are upon the same
general line, the amount of land hereto
fore granted shall be deducted from the
amount granted by this act: Provided,
further, That the railroad company re-
ceiving the previous grant of land may
assign their interest to said Northern
Pacific Railroad Company" or may con
solidate, confederate, and associate with
said company upon. the terms named in
the first section of this act; Provided, fur.
Their, That all mineral lands be and the
same are hereby excluded from the ope.
rations of this act, and in lieu thereof
like quantity of unoccupied and unappro-
priated agricultural lands in odd-number-
ed sectinns nearest to the line of said