New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-28
No. 100.
AN ACT

AN ACT
| To authorize the New Orleans Baton
Rouge and Yicksburg Railroad Company
TO select the point or points for the com.
mencement of their road; to reduce the
liability OF the State of Louisiana nv
authorizing said company to issue first
mort gage bonds, and to construct and
employ, or cause to be constructed or
employed, steam boats or other yaasels
and telegraph lines along the line of rail.
road Of said company.
WHEREAS By the act of Legislature of
the State of Louisiana, approved Decent er
80, 1869, entitled an act to incorporate
tine rev Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Ficksburg Railroad Company, and to
e1Pediate the construction of their road, "
the Governor of the State was authorized
to lndorse the guarantee of the State upon
the second mortgage bonds of said railroad
company to the amount of twelve thousand
five hundred ($l2,50O) dollars per milo
upon the completion of each twenty miles
OF road; and,
Whereas, Said company has, by act of
Congress Improved March 3, A. D. 1871. en-
i'Ied an act to incorporate the Texas
Pacific Railroad Company. and to aid
IN the construction of its road, and
Tor other purposes, become the recognized
branch Of the Texas Pacific railroad, from
It's eastern terminus, through the States of
lexa5 and Louisiana, to the city of New
Orleans, and under such act of COugress
nave become she grantees of every alter
nate section of land in q belt of FORTY miIes
each side of said line of railroad from New
Orleans to the State line in Louisiana, and
SAID act OF Congress has been executed bv
the government of the United States nv
the withdrawal of all the public lands with
IN she aforesaid boundary for sale or entry
under any law; and whereas the early com
mebcemelt, construction and completion of
the new Orleans, Baton Rouge and Yicks-
ourg railroad is secured by said gram of
land from the Uaited States government
and The legislation herein provided.
SECTIoN i. Be it enacted by the Senate
ana house OF Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened
Il, nat me NV Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Elrksburg Railroad COMPANY shalt have
full power and authority to commence fbe
conBtrnctlon.oft their rOadin the city Of New
orleans or Shreveport, or at any inferno
dlate point or points on their line of road as
may best suit the convenience Of said Gown
phny, and facilitate the speedy epnatrrct;an
OF a continuous line from the citv of Nv
Orleans to the city of Shreveport, or Derfeot
Taliroad communication with the Texas
4 + dclio railroad, or any other railroad in
\ ORTIZ western Louisiana, at or near the
Louisiana State line; crowded boyyava-
mat SAID company shall construct the line
OF ita road between the CITY of New Orleans
and the city Of Baton Rouge, on the east
side Of the Mississippi river, to the corpo,
rate limits Of the said CITY of Baton Rouge
or adjacent thereto. And the said New 6r.
leans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad
company is hereby authorized to issue.
rom tame to time, as it shall deem prOper'
It's hrst mortgage bonds, to an amount not
exceeding thirty thousand dollars per mile
upon Its Lima Of railroad, or any pars