The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-05
ARTICLE III.

GENERAL POWERS.
The said company is empowered and author
ized
First-To locate, construct, lease, own and use
| railroad with one or more tracks and suitable
turnouts, OF such guage and construction and
upon such course or route may be deemed
by majority of the Directors Of said company
most expedient, beginning at point on the Mis-
| sissppi River at New Orleans, or between New
Orleans and the parish OF Iberville, the right
bank of the Mississippi, and Baton Rouge on the
left bank; or from New Orleans or Berwick's
Bay, via yermillionville, 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 this State, and running thence
| towards and to the city OF Shreveport, or the
city of Marshall 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
aiorIty of the Directors of said company NAV
from time to time deem proper and expedent
and for the interest Of said company to own and
to 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 a right to establish and maintain in the
city OF New Orleans proper freight and passen- |
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 ferries steamboats, and other vessels, and |
for the purposes of such depots tracks ana fer.
lies. may acquire property by appropriation.
Thlrd-To construct, establish or purchase in
this State, and thereafter, to own lease, MAN.
tain and use suitable wharves, piers, ware hous'
yards steamboats,, harbors depots stations. and
other works and appurtenances com ected with
and incidental to said railway and its connec-
tons, 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
ts boats, by power of steam or any other power,
and to receive for safekeeping and to store mer-
chandise and property in its 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
1any.
To make advances of money or credits upon
merchandise or property for changes made by
)ther tras sportaton lines to be transported upon
ts railways, steamboats, vessels, or to be
stored in its yards or warehouses to such extent,
md upon such terms and conditions as the Direc-
ors of said Company may from time to time es- !
ablish or authorize to be established.
Ffth-To obtain and receive by purchase,
rant from United States or otherwise grant gift,
leVlSe anu DeQueSl DOtn real P0d personal prop L
rty. to have and to hold such real and personal [
cal estate, in this State, for the objects, pur- S
,oses, interests and business of such Company.
Sixth-To construct and maintain its said rail- p
Dads or any part of the same, and to have the
light of way therefor, across or along, or
pom any waters, water courses, river
AXE, bay, inlet, street, highway. turnpike, V
r canal within the State Of Louisiana, which
be course of said railways may ntersect. touch d
r cross, provided the said company shall pre- v
erYe any water course, street, highway, turn