The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-05
THE RAILROAD BRIDGE.
An Act TO Incorporate the Wheeling
and Ohio Union Railroad Com

and Ohio Union Railroad Com.
pany.
Be it enacted BY the Legislature Of West
Virginia
|. That Henry X. List, Michael
Reilly, George Baird, VIM. H. Wood.
ward, John H. Hobbs, A. Wilson, c.
H. Booth, Aug. Pollack, Thos J. Blair,
E. J. Stone, John Mcclure, A. Arm-
strong, John Handlan, j. G. Smith, NJ.
Pollock, G. w. Franzheim, John Oes-
,erling, VIM. Hern, J. n. Vance, n.
Riester, C. D. Hubbard, James McClu.
ney, Thos. Sweeney, Jos. A. Metcalf,
Robt. H. Cochran, VIM. II. Sturgss,
Clark Haines, Thomas OBrien, VIM
P. Wilson, Eugene List, and Benjamin
Fisher, or any three or more Of them,
and their associates, successors and
assigns, and all who shall become
stockholders when one thousand shares
OF the capital stock Of the company
shall! have been subscribed, as herein
after provided, and made body polite
and corporate, by the name, style, and
title of the "Wheeling and Ohio Union
Railroad Company" provided said sub
scription shall be made in good faith,
within three years from the passage Of
this act.
2. The said company is authorized to
locate, construct, and maintain rail.
road from some point within the city OF
Wheeling, across the Ohio river to the
State of Ohio; and is also authorized
to locate, construct, and maintain any
branch thereof, on or over any street or
alley within the city OF Wheeling; and
it is also authorized to locate, construct.
and maintain its road, or any branch
thereof, on or over any street or alley
within the city Of Wheeling, and use
on its railroad branches all necessary
locomotives, cars, ETC., for the transpor-
tation Of passengers, freight, etc.
Provided, however, that said COM
pany shall not locate or construct any
depot, shops, road or branch road, on
any public property, or street, or alley,
without first obtaining the assent OF
said city, by an ordinance passed
by the Council OF said city; and
the said company shall not maintain or
use any depot, shop or branch road, not
in accordance with the restrictions, lin
itations and conditions provided in such
ordinance.
3. The said company shall have au-
thority to erect, construct and maintain
a railroad bridge across the Ohio river
at auy point within said city OF Wheel.
ing, it may select; provided, however,
that said railroad bridge shall not be
less than ninety feet high from low
water mark, and the channel span shall
not be less than four hundred feet, I'M
less a lesser height or lesser span be
authorized by the Congress Of the
United States; except that this provi-
sion shall not apply to the branch OF
the Ohio river on the west side OF
Wheeling Island.
4. The said company shall have
authority, in mode prescribed by the
forty-second chapter OF the Code OF
West Virginia and amendments there
to, to enter upon, survey and condemn
any land or real estate, or interest
therein, requisite or proper for the pur.
pose Of erecting, constructing and main.
tanning its depots, shops. road and
bridge, and for constructing, maintain
ing, using and working all branch roads
within the county Of Ohio as may be
suitable or proper for the purpose OF
connecting and intersecting its road on
said bridge with the line OF the railway
OF any railroad company in the said
county OF Ohio or State OF Ohio, near
the city of Wheeling, and shall further
have authority to erect and maintain
shops and depots within the city Of
Wheeling. Provided, always, that no
real estate or street or alley of the said
CITY shall be taken and used. except by
and with the consent Of Its council, as
is provided in the second section Of this
act.
s. 1t shall be lawful for said company
To establish rates of toll which 1t may
collect on all locomotives, tenders, ex-
press, baggage, passenger, burden or
other cars, OF Whatsoever kind, which
may pass over its bridge. road or branch
road, and for such freight, passengers
or other things as may pass or be trans
ported over its road, branch roads or
bridge; provided, that the rate OF toll