The New Orleans bulletin., 1875-09-03
ARTICLE III.
GENERAL POWERS.

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The said company is empowered and author
lied:
First-To locate, construct, lease, own and use
| a railroad with one or more tracks and suitable
| turnouts, OF such guage and construction and
| upon such a course or route as may be deemed
| by majority of the Directors of said company
| most expedien', beginning at point on the Mis-
| sissippi River at New Orleans, or between New
Orleans and the parish OF Iberville. on the right
bank of the Mississippi, and Baton Rouge on the
left bank or from New Orleans or Berwick 8
Bay, via Vermiionville, in the parish of Lafay-
cite, and Opelousas, in the parish of st. Landry,
or from any of said points, or from any point
within the limits of this State, and running thence
towards and to the city OF Shreveport, or the
city of Marshall or Dallas in the State of Texas in
such direction and route or routes as said company
shall fix, and with such connecting branches in
the State OF Louisiana as may be deemed
proper.
Second-To locate construct, lease, own. main-
tain and use such branch railroads and tracks as
a majority Of the Directors of said company may
from time to time deem proper and expedient
and for the interest of said company to own and
to use and lease, and they shall not be restricted
IN the exercise of this privilege to the State of
Louisiana, but may connect their main line with
any other line or lines in other States which
shall authorize the exercise of said privilege
within their limits, and the said company shall
have right to establish and maintain in the
city of New Orleans proper freight and passen.
ger depots, and to connect them by tracks and
ferries with the left bank of the Mississippi River
at such point or points as may be deemed most |
convenient for the public interest, and to use in
such .rries steamboats, and other vessels and
for the purposes of such depots, tracks ana fer |
ries, may acquire property by appropriation.
Third To construct, establish, or purchase in |
this State, and thereafter, to own, lease, main. |
tain and use suitable wharves, piers, warehouses
yards, steamboats,, harbors, depots, stations, and
other works and appurtenances con- nuected with |
and incidental to said railway and its connec- |
tions, and to run and manage the same as the |
Directors of the said Company may deem to be |
most expedient and to the welfare Of said corpo-
ration. |
Fourth-To take, transport, carry and convey |
persons and property upon its said railway and |
its boats, by power of steam or any other power |
and to receive for safekeeping and to store mer-
chsndise and property in it's yards or warehouses,
and to receive for such transportation, safekeep-
ng or storage such tolls and charges as may
rom time to time be established or authorized to
De established by Directors of said railroad COM
,any.
To make advances of money or credits upon
or property, for changes made by
'ther trat sportaton lines to be transported upon
IS railways, steamboats, or vessels, or to be |,
tored in its yards or warehouses to such extent,
nd upon such terms and conditions as the Direc-
ors of said Company may from time to time es-
ablish or authorize to be established.
Fifth-To obtain and receive by purchase,
rant from United States or otherwise grant, gift,
evise and bequest, both real and personal prop !
rty to have and to hold such real and personal |
cal estate, in this State, for the objects, pur.
oses interests and business of such Company.
Sixth-To construct and maintain its said rail- I
Dads or any part of the same, and to have the
sht of way therefor, across or along, or
pom any waters, water courses, river,
Ike, bay, inlet. street, highway, turnpike, v
r canal within the State of Louisiana, which
he course of said railways may intersect. touch d
r cross, provided the said company shall pre- v
'rve any water course, street, highway, turn