Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-20
OFFICIAL.
T. LAWS OF THE UNITED, STATES.
Passed at the First Session of the Ihir-
ty.eighth Congress.
TPUBL1o-No. 1856. ]

gIT0cuOn OF Il TdliTOdu anu GSlCSIdph
line from Lake Superior to Puget's
Sound, on the Pacific coast, by the
northern route.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That
Richard d. Rice, John A. Poore, Samuel
P. Strickland, Samuel G. Fessenden,
Charles P. Kimball, Augustine Haines,
Edwin R. W. Wiggin, Arson P. Morrill,,
Samuel j. Anderson, of Maine; William
Sears, 1. S. Wilmington, Josiah Perham,
James NJ. Beckett, A. W. Banfeld, Abel
Abbott, John Newell, Austin L Rogers,
A. Bass, John Q. Bresbey, George Shiv-
erick, Edward Tyler, Filander j. Forri-
stall, Ivory II. Pope, of Massachusetts
George Opdyke, Farley Holmes, John
Higgins, Philander Reed, George Briggs,
Chauncey Vibbard, John C. Fremont, of
New York; Ephraim Marsh, J ohm P. Jack
son, jr., of New Jersey; S. NJ. FELTON,,
John Toy, o. j. Dickey, B. F. Archer,
G. w. Cass, j. Edgar Thompson, John
A. Green, of Pennsylvania I. M. Allyn,
Moses w. Wilson, Horace Whitaker, Ira
Bliss, of Connecticut, Joseph A. Gilmore,
Onslow Stearns, E. P. Emerson, Freder-
Hampshire; Cyrus Aldrich, 81. NJ. Rice,
John McKusick, H. C. Waite, Stephen
Miller, of Minnesota; E. A. Chaplin, Jno.
Gregory Smith, George Merrill, of Yer
mont: James Y. Smith, William S. Slater,
Isaac 81 Southwick, Earl P. Mason, of
Rhode Island; Seth Fuller, William Kel-
logg, U. S. Grant, William B. Ogden,
William G. Greene, Leonard Sweat, Hen
ry w. Blodgett, Porter Sheldon, of Hi
nois; j. NJ. Winchell, Ellsworth Cheese
brough, James S. Emery, of Kansas;
II.
Samuel Brannon, George Rowland, Hen
~ Platt, of California; William f. Mer-
Ger, James w. BROMLEY, of Virginia;
John H. B. Latrobe, w. Prescott Smith,
of Maryland; Greenbury Slack, A. l.
Boreman, of West Virginia; Thomas f.
Bramlette, Frank Shorin, of Kentucky,
John Brough, John a Bingham, Oran
Follett, John Gardner, S. S. L'Homme-
dieu, Harrison G. Blake, Philo Cham
berlin, of Ohio; John A. Duncan, Sam
uel NJ. Harrington, of Delaware; Thomas
A. Morris, Jesse L. Williams, of Indiana;
Samuel L. Case, Henry L. Hall, David
Trowbridge, of Michigan, Edward n.
Broadhead, Alexander Mitchell, Benja-
min Ferguson, Levi Sterling, - Mar
shall, of Wisconsin; J IC Ainsworth, Orlan-
do Humason, II. w. Corbett, Henry Fail
ling, of Oregon; j. B. S. Todd, NJ. K.
Armstrong, j. Shaw Gregory, ]. LeBerge,
of Dakota Territory; John Mullan, An
son G. Henry, S. d. Smith, Charles
Terry, of Washington Territory; 81. w.
Starr, PIatt Smith, Nixon Denton, Will
liam Leighton, B. F. Allen, Reuben No
bic, John l.. Davies, of Iowa: Willard P.
Hall, George R. Smith, 81. Gayle King,
John G. Sergeant, of Missouri; William
n. Wallace, of Idaho Territory; j. n. La
throp, Henry D. Cooke, II. E. Merrick,
of the District of Columbia, and all such
other persons who shall or may be asso-
ciated with them, and their successors,
are hereby created and erected into bo-
dy corporate and polite, in deed and in
law, by the name, style, and title of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company"
and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, and shall be able to sue and
be sued, plead and be implicated, defend
and be defended, in all courts of law and
equity within the United States, and may
make and have a common SEAL And
said corporation is hereby authorized and
empowered to lay out, locate, construct,
furnish, maintain, and enjoy continuous
railroad and telegraph line, with the APP
purtenanceG, namely, beginning at point
on lake Superior, in the State of MINES
ota or Wisconsin; thence westerly by the
most eligible railroad route, as shall be
determined by said company, within the
territory of the United States, on line
north of the forty-6fth degree of latitude
to some point on Puget's Sound, with
branch, via the valley of the Columbia
river, to point at or near Portland, in
the State of Oregon, leaving the main
trunk line at the most suitable place, not
more than three hundred miles from its
western terminus; and is hereby vested
with all the powers, privileges, and i'm
munlties necessary to carry into effect the
purposes of this act as herein set forth
The capital stock of said company shall
consist OF one million shares of one hun
dred dollars each, which shall in all re- |
spectS be deemed personal property, and |
shall be transferable in such manner as
the bylaws of said corporation shall pro- |
vide. The persons hereinbefore named |
are hereby appointed commissioners. and |
shall be called the board of commission
ers of the ''NOrthern Pacific Railroad |
Company" and fifteen shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business. /
The first meeting of said board of COM
missiOners shall be held at the Melodeon |
Hall, II the city of Boston, at such time |
as any five commissioners herein named /
from Massachusetts shall appoint, not /
more than three months after the passage
OF this act, notice of which shall be given /
by them to the other commissioners BY
publishing said notice in at least one daily
newspaper In the cities of Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwau-
k:e, and Chicago, once a week at least
four weeks previous 10 the day of meeting.
Said board shall organize BY the choice /.
from Its number of q president, vice pres--l
ident, secretary and treasurer, and they 4
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