Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-01-26
NUMBER A.

c mmssoners 10 examine and report to him
: i'm relation thereto: and il it shall appear to
him that twenty miles of said road have heen
completed a. required by this act. then. upon
certificate of said commssioner(sl to that cf-
feet. patents shall Issue conveying the right
and title to said lands to said company on
each side of said road as far as the same IL
completed. to the amount aforesaid !; and such
examination. report. and conveyance BY pat
ents, shall continue from time to time, in like
manner, until said road shall have been com
4 pleted. And the President shall appoint said
commissioners. fill vacancies in said commis-
; sion. as provided in relation to other roads
mentioned In the act to which this 10 an
, amendment. And the said company shall be
entitled To all the privileges and mmunities
granted TO the Hannibal and Saint Joseph's
liailroad Company by the said last mentioned
act, sd far as the same may be applicable
Provided. That no government bonds shall be
issued to the said Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad Company TO aid IN the con-
struction Of said extension of It's road And,
prorided. further That said extension shall bs
completed within the period of ten years from
the passage of this act. 80 ...-
| Sec. 81. And Be IL further enacted That be-
fore any land granted by this act shall be cus-
veyed to any company or party entitled there
to under this act, there shall first he paid into
\ the United States, the cost of surveying, Sc
lectins, and conveying the same, by the said
company or party in interest as the titles shall
be required 10y said company, which amount
shall without any further appropriation, stand
to the credit of the proper account. To be Us
ell by the commissioner of the general land
office for the prosecution Of the survey Of the
| public lands along the line of said ruwd, ami
| SO from year to year until the whole shall be
completed, as provided under the provisions of
| this act
Sec % And be IL further sascted. That con-
gress may, at amy time, alter, amend, or re-
| peal this act.
Approved, July 2, 1864.
| lPuBLrc No 2l7l
| AN ACT granting Lands to aid In the con-
| struction of a railroad and telegraph line
from Lake Superior tn Puget's Sound, ON
the Pacific coast. hy the Northern route
| Be enacted By he Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiues Of the Uaaed States Of america in Con-
gress assembled. That Richard d. Rice. John 4.
Poore, Samuel P Strickland. Samuel c. Fes-
sender. Chayles p. KmbaIl. Augustine
Haines. Edwin II. w wiggin. Anson p Nor
| rill. Samuel j. Anderson. of N line; Willard
Sears, l S Wilmington. Josiah Perham,
James NJ Beckett. A. w. Blnfield. Abiel Ab-
hott. john Newell, Austin l. Rodgers, Ma
thaniel Greene, inr, Oliver Frost. John A.
B .ss. john o. Bresbrey, George Shiverick
L iward Tyler. Filander J. For,istall. Ivory
! IL Pope. of Massachusetts George Opdyke,
! Farley Holmes, John Huggins, Phiander
Reed. George Briggs, Chauncy yibbari. John
Z. Fremont. of New York Ephraim Marsh,
John 2 Jackson, jr.. of New Jersey: s III.
! FELTON,, John Toy, o. j. Dickey. b F. Arch
er. g Cass, j Elgar Thompson. John A.
| Green, of Pennsylvania L. NJ Allyn. Moses
| w. Wilson, Horace Whitaker, Ira Bliss. Of
Connecticut: Joseph A. Gilmore, onslow
Stearns, K p. Emerson, Frederick Smyth,
William L Chandler. Of New Hampshire
| Cyrus Aldrich, IL. NJ Rice, John McKusick,
II c. Waite, Stephen Miller. of Minnesota
Z. A. Chaplin, John Greg ~ Smith. George
Merrill. of Vermont; James Y. Smith. VIII
liam :, Slater, Isaac IL. Southwick. Earl P
Mason. of Rhode Island Seth Fuller. VIII
liam kellogg, L. 5. tirnt, William b. Og-
den, William e. Greene, Leonard Sweat. Hen
ry w. Blmlgett, Porter Sheldon. OF Illinois
j. NJ. Winchell, Ellsworth Cheesebrough.
James :. Emery, of Kansas Richard +. Per-
kins, Richard Chenely, Samuel Brannan,
George Rowland, Henry Plhtt, Of California
Virginia John II. q. Latrobe, w. Prescott
Smith, of Maryland; Greenbury Slack, A. j.
Boregnan, OF West Virginia Thomas E.
Brtmette. Frank Shorin. of Kentucky: John
! Brough, John A. Bingham. oan Folett,
John Gardner. 8 S. l. Hommedieu, Harrison
q. Blake, Philo Chamberlin, of Ohio: John
A. Dunctn, Samuel NJ. Harrington, of Della
a. l..
! of Indiana; Samuel l.. Case, Henry l.. Hall,
David H. Jerome, Thomas ID. Gilbert. C. A.
Trowbridge, Of Michigan Edward III. Broad
head, Alexander Mitchell. Benjamin Fergu-
son, Levi Sterling, - Marshal. of Wiscon-
| sin J. C. Ainswor,h. Orlando Humason. H.
w Corbett, Henry Failing. Of Oregon ]. b.
| 8. Todd, nj. X. Armstrong. j. Shaw Gregory,
j. lie Berge, of Dakota Territory: John Null
Ian. Anson G.. Henry. s. d. Smith, Charles
Terry. Of Washington Territory H w. Starr,
Platt Smith. Nixon Denton. William Leigh
ton. B. F. Allen, Reuben Noble John l. Da-
vies. Of Iowa; Willard p. Hall. George r.
! Smith, II. Gayle King. John G. Sargeant. of
Missouri William H. Wallace of Idaho Ter
ritory J. H. Lathrop. Henry d. Cooke. H.
T. Merrick, Of the District of Columbia. and
all such other persons who shall or may he
associated with them, and their successors, are
hereby created and erected into body corpo-
rate and polite, i'm deed and in law, by tho
| name, style, and title of the :" Northern Pa
| ciic Railroad Company and 10y that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall be
able to sue and to be suei. plead and be im-
pleaded. defend and be defended. in all courts
| of law and equity of the United States. and
| may make and have a common seal. AMI
said corporation is hereby authorized and EN-
powered to lay out, lacate construct. furnish,
MAINTAIN. and enjoy continuous railroad and
telegraph line, with the appurtunances. name
| ly, behinning at a puint ON Lake Superior. in
| the State OF Minnesota or Wisconsin thence
westerly by the most eligible railroad route,
as shall be determined 10y said company. with
| in the territory Of the United States. on line
! north of the forty-iiith degree of latitude To
some point on Pugets Sound. with branch.
| via the valley of the Cumberland River. to o
point at or near Portland. i'm the State of Ore
| gon, leaving the main trunk line at the most
suitable place, not mere than three hundred
| miles from its western terminus and is here
By vested with all the powers. privileges. and
immunities necessary To carry into effect the
PURPOSES of this act M herein sat forth. The
capital stock of said company shall CONSIST of
one million shares .f one hundred dollars each.
which shall in all respects be deemed personal
| property and shall he transferable in such
manner as the bylaws of said corporation
shall provide. The persons hereinbefore nam
ed are hereby appointed commissioners, and
shall he called the board of commissioners OF
the +" Northern Pacific Railroad Company"
and fifteen shall constitul le quorum for the
transaction OF business. The first meeting Ut
said hoard OF commissioners shall Ire held at
the Melodi,n hall, in the city Of Boston, ut
such time as any five commissioners ht rein
named from Massachusetts shall appoint. n
more than three months after the assage Of
this act. notice os which shall he given by
them 10 the other commissioners by publish
Stit hotSC III az test ohS u0i'y hV"Sl"-
per i'm the cities of Boston. New York. fhila-
delphia, Cincinnati Milwaukee. and Chicago.
once a week at least four weeks previous to
the day of meeting, Said board shall organ
ize by the choice from its number OF presi-
dent, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer.
and they shalt require from said treasursr
such bonds as may be deemed proper, and
may from time to time increase the amount
thereof aS they may deem proper. The secre-
tary shall be sworn IA the faithful performance
OF his duties and such oath shall I've entered
upon the records Of the company singned hy
him, and the oath verified thereon. Tho
president and secretary Of said board shall in
like manner call all other meetings. naming
the time and place thereof 1t shall bs tho
duty Of said board OF commissioners to op.n
books, or cause books to be opened. at such
times. and in such principal cities or other
places in the United States. as they, ,r QUO
rum of them, shall determine, within six
months after the passage Of this act. to receive
subscriptions 70 the capital stock Of said corpo-