The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-17
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EXPENDITURES.

-#ti EXPENDITURES.
Tracks, stations salaries and
running expenses. $65, 305. "a
Balance to income account. 81 661 96-S123 OFT 40
The Engineer report was voluminous doc
ument, confined mainly to description of the
location of the road, its construction and pro-
gress of the work. The Engineer also yindi-
Gated the company from charges made by out
side parties, of disregard of economy and the
requirements of business in the location of the
road. The paper was very interesting, but much
too long for our columns.
SUPERINTENDENT REPORT
The report OF Jonas Hamilton, Superintend-
emit, shows that the number of miles run by
passenger trains was 1888; freight 9642; total,
including mixed, extra and ballast trains, u.s.
81. Passengers carried GO, 207;. tons of freight
25,O74- No passenger has been injured. The
rolling stock of the road consists of locomo-
tives, II passenger cars, smoking cars, bag
gage and smoking cars, 2 baggage cars, 40 box
cars, 40 platform cars 10 hay cars and snow
plows. The following rolling stock has been
purchased during the year: locomotive, pas
senger cars, 2 smoking cars, 20 box cars, 10 hay
cars and crane car -Four thousand dollars
have been expended for machinery for fitting
up the shops in Portland.
When the first article came up for action, the
following motion, offered by T. C. Hersey, was
unanimously adopted:
That the act OF the Legislature of New Hamp-
| shire, entitled AN act to grant right of way
through that State to the Portland and Ogdens-
burg Railroad Corporation" and the act addi-
tonai thereto, approved July IA, 1871, be &C
cepted by this company. Il
Tho third arf;oIa oJ;o;+oJ
The act referred to empowers the company to
continue the road through the State of New
Hampshire, and limiting the time of location
to Dec. 81, 1871. The second section provides
| (f the act is accepted) that the directors NAV
be chosen for three years, and the stockholders
may, by their votes, designate the persons to
hold for one year. for two years, and for three
years; and thereafter one-third of them shall
be elected annually. 1t was stated that part
OF the location of the road had been made as
provided for, and the question arose as to wheth-
er the corporation could accept part of the act
and reject the second section
Judge Kingsbury, in behalf of the city. said
that he was instructed to oppose the acceptance
of the second section. On his motion the sec.
oud and third articles were laid on the table.
Messrs. Kingsbury, Eastman and Washburn
were appointed committee to receive, sort and
count the votes for nine directors. They subse.
quently reported,
/ Whole number Of votes, so25
and that the following gentlemen were unani.
mously elected:
5. J. Anderson H. N. Jose, William Deer
ing, +. q. Messer, Andrew Spring, j. B. Brown
William L. Putnam, John E. Donnell, d. r,
Hastings. =
The subject of asking further aid from the
city OF Portland, referred to in the Directors
report, was considered informally. Collecto,
Washburn, w. s. Dana, 7. G. Hersey, Judge
Eastman of Conway, and James H. Hamlen
spoke strongly of a vigorous prosecution of the
work; each gentleman presenting some import
ant argument in support of such action Mr..
w. S. Dana offered the following motion,
which was adopted
That the Directors of the p & O. R. r. be
requested to press forward with all reasonable
speed, in finishing the road so as to unite at an
early day with the Vermont line, and that we as
citizens and stockholders of Portland, will give
them our hearty cooperation to this end.
The meeting was then adjourned to Tuesday,
23d inst, at II o'clock a. m.
At a meeting of the Directors in the after
noon, Samuel j. Anderson was reelected Pres
ident.