The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-12-06
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the FIRST Session Of the Ibirty.nsnth
Congress. @ t4
[PUBLIo-No 1921

LAWS Of UNI Ill oAoAGSs
Passed at the FIRST Session of the Ibirty:ntnth
Congress.
[PUBLIo-No 1921
AN ACT to incorporate the Washington Tenn
perance Society of the city of Washington,
district of Columbia.
Re it enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtiueS Of tie United States Of America IN Con-
oyess assembled That John s.. Hollinghead,
William G. Flood, Christopher Cammack, sen
Tor. Asbury Lloyd, John B. Wheeler, Zach. b.
Brooke, Ros. A Fish, George w Maher, VIM.
p Drew, VIM II. Nally, Thomas B. Marche,
Oscar Alexander, William Dixon, and others
who now are or may hereafter become mem
bers of said society, and their successors, are
hereby declared to be one community and
body corporate by the name, style and title OF
the Washington Temperance Society OF Wash
ing City and District ofColumbia; and by that
name they shall be, and are hereby made ca
pable iii law to have, receive, and retain TO
them and their successors property real and
personal, also devises and requests OF any per-
son or persons, bodies corporate or polite, ca
pable Of making the same, and the same to
dispose of or transfer at their pleasure in such
manner as they may think proper: Provtded
always, That the said corporation shall not at
any time hold or possess property real or per
sonal, or mixed, exceeding in value the sum OF
twenty-five thousand dollars, other than that
which may be invested in hall to be erected
for the purposes of the society.
SEC. 2. A1ad be it further enacted, That the
said corporation and their successors, by the
name and title aforesaid, shall be capable I'D
law to sue and be sued, plead and be implea-
and be defended, in all or any courts of JUS
tice, and before all and any judges, officers OF
persons whatsoever, in all and singular ac-
tions, matters or demands whatsoever.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
said corporation shall have power to hold sta
4r1 10 IL, into
ton alter or abolish such bylaws, rules and
regulations as to them shall seem most con
ducive to the interests of the society: ProaT
ded, That the same shallnot be contrary to
the laws of the United States.
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That moth
ing in this act shall be so construed as to au
thorize the said corporation to issue any note
token, device, or other evidence of debt to be
used as currency.
SEC. 5. And be 1T further enacted, That this
act may be altered or repealed at the pleasure
of the Congress.
Approved July n, 1866.
[PUBLIc-No 1863.
An ACT granting lands to aid in the construc
ton of railroad and telegraph line from the
States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pa
cificc'oast.
Be it enacted By tie Senate and House Of Repre-,
sentdtiUeS oftte United States of america IN Con
greSs assembled, That John B. Brown, Arson
2. Morrill,, Samuel F. Jersey, William &. eros
| by, Samuel E. Spring, Samuel P. Dinsmore, OF
Maine; N. S. Upham, Frederick Smyth, Ons
low Stearns, S. G. Griffin, William E. Chand
Ter, of New Hampshire; T. w. Parke, Ii. ii
Baxter, John Gregory Smith, A. P. Lyman, OF
Vermont; Walter Burgess, William s Slater
stephen Harris, Thomas P Shepard, of Rhode
| Island; William Merit, Alexander Fl Bullock
George L Steams, Genery Twitchell, Charles
H Warren, Chester W Chaplin, of Massachu
sets; John Boyd, Robert c Whetmore, John
Wait, Cyrus Northrup, of Connecticut; So
lon Humphreys, J Bigler, Homer Ramsdell
Isaac H Knox, John A G Gray, Daniel L Ross
A V Stout, NJ X Jessup, r E Fenton, E l
Fancher, j G Fremont, James Hoy, Jesse NJ
Bolles, Edward Gilbert, James Robinson
elor, John Edgar Thompson, Morton Nc
Michael, T Haskins Du Puy Thomas A Scott
Charles Rickettson, William Lyon, George W
Cass, Levi Parsons, of Pennsylvania Charles
KNAPP, j L N Stratton, James Dayton, Rob
ert F Stockton, Alexander G Cattell, A "
Markley, of New Jersey John w Garrett
Charles NJ Gwinn, Robert Fowler, Jacot
Tome, Thomas NJ Lanahan, of Maryland
Charles j Dupont, Henry Ridgley, Andrew {
Gray, Nat Smythers, of Delaware; Bethany
Stofer, George B Senter, William Bager Sam
uel Galloway, DAaid Tod, Charles Anderson
of Ohio; Edwin Peck, William d Griswold
James Luse, Samuel Perkins, Conrad Ba
ker, of Indiana; Richard j Oglesby, Judd
Samuel A Buckmaster, d L Phillips, l. San
ger, of Illinois, Eber B Ward, Omar D Cougar
Nathaniel W Brooks, Alexander I'll Morrison
of Michigan; Z G Simmons, Alexander Mitch
ell, j j Williams, J A Thompson, j R Pease
John 81 Hersey, of Wisconsin; Henry A Smith
Sherman Finch, William Mitchell, r Grow
well, L F Hubbard, E f Drake, Of Minnesota
| Lyman Cook, Platt Smith, Jacob Butler, Hen
| ry Reid, Hoyt Sherman, of Iowa; William c
Brownlow, of Tennessee; Thomas c Fletcher
B r Bonner, John NJ Richardson, Emil Preto
lrious, E W Fox, r McElheny, Charles I
Howland Madison Miller, George W Fishback
T Hubbard, George Knapp, Charles K Dick
inson, A G Braun, G L Hewitt, P A Thomp
son, James w Thomas, Charles E Moss, Ed
ward Walsh, A Easton, Truman j Horner
Eads, d R Garrison, w Cayser, George
Robinson, of Missouri; Thomas E Bramlette
Benjamin Gratz, E Warren, Lazarus w Pow
ell, John Mason Brown, Joshua Speed of Ken
lucky; Scion Thatcher, Jacob Stotter, vii
liam Edwards, James G Blunt, Robert Nc
Bratney, of Kansas; Harrison Hagaus, James
Cook, Robert Crangle, Benjamin II Smith, o
West Virginia; Lorenzo Sherwood, A J Ham
Iilton, of Texas; William Gilpin, Henry c Leach
of Colorado Phinneas Banning, Timothy {
Phelps, William B Carr, Edward F Beale FREQ
F Lowe, Benz. B Redding, B w Hathaway
Leonidas Haskell, Frederick Billings, of Cali
fornia; W Ladd j R Moores, Walter Mon
teith, John Kelly, B Dowell, of Oregon;-
James Il JOHNSON, Henry connolly, frauclSCu
Perea, of New Mexico; II Mills, A P K SAT
| ford, s Davis, of Nevada; King S Woolsey
| William II Hardy, Coles Bashford, of Arizona
H ID Cooke, of the District of Columbia; anC
all such other persons who shall or may be as
ISOLATED with them, and their successors, are
hereby created and erected into a body corpo
rate and polite, in deed and in law, by the
name, style, and title of the Atlantic and Pa
citic Railroad Company" and by that nam,
shall have perpetual succession, and shall b.
able to sue and be sued, pleadand be implead
ed 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 cor
poration is hereby authorized and empowered
to lay out, locate, and construct, furnish main
tain, and enjoy continuous railroad and tel
egraph line, with the appurtenances, namely
Beginning at or near the town of Springfield
in the State of Missouri, thence to the western
boundary line of said State and thence by thu
most eligible railroad route as shall be deter
mined by said company to point on the Ca
madam river; thence to the town of Albuquer
que, on the river Del Norte, and thence, by
way of the Aqua Frio, or other suitable pass
to the headwaters of the Colorado Chiquito
and thence, along the thirty-f parallel O
latitude, as near as may be found most suita
BILE for railway route, to the Colorado river
at such point as may be selected by said com
lpany for crossing; thence by the most practi
cable route to the Pacific. The said company
shall have the right to construct a brancl
from the point at which the road strikes tn,
Canadian river eastwardly, along the mos
suitable route as selected to a point in the
western boundary line of Arkansas, at or nea
the town of Van Buren,. And the said com
pany is hereby yelled with all the power
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 million shares of one hun
dred dollars each, which shall in all respects
be deemed personal property, and shall be
transferable in such manner as tn laws of
said corporation shall provide. The persons
hereinbefore named are hereby appointed
commissioners, and shall be called the board
of commissioners of the atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company" and fifteen shall consti
| tute q quorum for the transaction of hnsiness