Nebraska advertiser., 1869-07-08

And, second, the money Iule' odOpted VIII
exclude many counties represented here by
deiegates. We therefore offer the following
Resoired, That all friends Of this proposed
a Nebraska Railroad, now present,
admitted as delegates In this convention.
J.H.S HANKLIE,
]. @. HOWELL.
H. J. MANN,
w. II. IL. MARINER.
The reports of the committees on
credentials were received. Judge
Wilson, of Knox county, offered the
following as q substitute for both the
majority and minority reports:
Resolved, That every gentleman present
a railroad on the line Indicated by the resolu-
tion which has just been passed BY this con,
vention, be admitted as a member of said
convention.
A motion was made that the major
ity report be accepted as a substitute.
The chair ruled this motion out OF
order.
A motion that every stOckholdeI
be admitted as a member was laid on
the table. The resolution of Judge
Wilson offered q substitute for the re-
port of the committee On credentials
was then adopted, whereupOn the
Lewis county delegation withdrew.
On motion of w. G. Hills, of Knox
county, a committee of thirteen was
appointed by the chair to draw up ar
tfcles of association for the organiza-
tion of a railaOad company as follows
w. G. Hills, of Knox county.
e. v. Wilson, of Knox county.
S. Nj. DeFrance, of Adair county.
w. w. Cover, of Adair county.
DR.. w. w. Shearer, of Sullivan
county.
N. A. Winters, of Grundy county.
J. G.. Howell, of Harrison county.
M. G. ROseberry, of NOdaway
county.
J. S. Church, of BrOwnville, Neb.
G. "A. Savage, @. II. Bull, ThOs. JAS
per and Geo. S. King of Quincy, Ill,
On motion, J. A. Richter, of AdaiI
county, was added to the committee
on articles of association.
On motion, a recess of twenty min
utes was had to allow said committee
time to report.
During the recess, speeches were
made by several gentlemen present.
prominent among which we're those
of Mr.. Geo. Adams and Gen. Prem
tiss, of Quincy.
On reassembling, the committee on
articles of association presented the
following:
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
These Articles of Association made
and entered into mi sTTwenty-fOurth
day of June] A; d. Eighteen Hun
dred and Sixty-nine.
WITNEsSETH: That we, whose
names are hereuntO subscribed, have
made and formed and do, on this the
Ttwenty-fourth day of June A. ID.
Eighteen Hundred and SiXty-nine
under and by virtue and in pursuance
of an act passed by the General AS
sembly of the State of Missouri, emit
entitled can act concerning private
corporations" Chapter s~ixty-nine and
seventy; approved the nineteenth OF
March, a. ID. Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty-six; and in accordance with the
provisions of chapter sixty-tWO and
siXty-three of the General Statutes OF
the State of Missouri, of Eighteen
Hupdredand SiXty-fiVe, and allsubse-
quent amendments to the acts afore-
said, make and form ourselves into a
Company for the purpose of construc-
ting, maintaining and operating a
railroad for public use in the convey
ance of persons and property within
the limits of the counties of Marion,
Lewis, Knox, Adair, Sullivan, Grun-
dy, Harrison, Gentry, NOdawa3 and
AtchisOn, in the State of Missouri.
The said railroad to be so cOnstruc-
ted, maintained and operated from the
west end of the Quincy railroad
bridge, or from a point near the same,
the west bank of the Mississippi
river, in Marion county, in the State
of Missouri, opposite the city of Quin-
On the State of Illinois, on the
most pTpcticable and feasible route to
and by way of Edna. in Knox c0un-
ty, and to and by way of K%irksviIle,
in Adair county, to a point in Atch-
isOn county, on the Missouri river, OPP
posite the city Of BrOwnville, in the
State of Nebraska.
The length of said road being, as
as can be estimated by the pres
ent survey, about two hundred and
thirty miles.
The name and style of the company
hereby formed is 1.-THE Quincy, Mis-
souri, and Pacific Railroad Company
and under that name and style shall
continue to exist for the term of one
thousand years from this date.
The Capital stock of said company is
hereby fixed at the sum of six mill
lions $50, 000, 00O) of dollars, and is di-
vided into sity thousand shares, of one
dollars each.
The following named persons being
O portion of those whose names are
hereuntO subscribed, 'tO-wit: GJohn
WinterbOttem, w. G.. Hills, &. A.
Thos. Jasper, ThOs. Red
mond, Geo. Adams, e. H: Bull, T. r..
Selmes, G. M. POmrOy, Jas. DeFrance,
Ct. ROseberry, A. w. Morgan and
John Wood, are hereby named and
appointed to be the Directors of the
company, and do in that capacity con-
to take upon themselves to
manage the affairs of the company for
the first year and until other Direc-
are chosen in their places in pur-
of the acts hereinbefore men
- LgAASJo HAACACOL anu uLluCL DAAE
authority of the said acts and for the
purpose hereinbefOre stated, we the
Undersigned, have hereunto sub
'cribed our respective names and pla-
res of residence, and have set opposite
our names the number of shares of one
hundred dollars each we do hereby
subscribe to the capital stock Of the
company.
A motion of Gen. T. T. Taylor, of
he Edima~SentineE, to adopt the Ar
5icles of assnciatiOn, was Withdrawn,
n order that certain blanks might be
illed, contained in brackets above.)
was then moved to fill the first two
with the words Invent
Fourth of June.U
A motion was made that while stock
being subscribed, each person
subscribing designate his choice for
Director of the Company; but the
notion was withdrawn, and the Ar
.icles of Association were then unani-
adopted.
On monitor of Judge Wilson, a re-
;eSs of twenty minutes was had to
enable persons to subscribe to the
stock of the 'Quincy, Missouri