The Portland daily press., 1878-11-30
STATE OF VERMONT,
CALEDONIA COUNTY, IS. nv in NOhhH'
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WHEREAS Albert B. Jewett and Albert w.
w Hasting have filed their petition in tho office
Of the Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Coun
ty OF Caledonia, setting forth that they were duly
appointed Receivers and Managers of the Lamoille
Valley Railroad, the Montpelier g. st. bloomsbury
Railroad and the Essex County Railroad by decree
of said Court of Cbancery dated on the 18th day of
October, A. D. 1871 that they have since that date
managed and run the Railroads and are still con-
troll and management of the same, that they have
since the roads in their custody, expended for
necessary purchases, improvement and repairs, all
me hes earnings o. saia roaos ana nave incurred an
further improvements and repairs are now impera-
lively demanded for the safe and economical running
Of said roads, in ballasting, replacing temporary
treste work by permanent cu1verts and embankments
renewing the ties on that portion of said road already
in use from to years, for additional sidngs and
re-rolliog of iron now in use for increased wharf
age at McQuam Bay and the erection of section and
engine houses and work shops at st Johnsbury and
for the purchase of land which to erect the same
And further setting forth that e. 8 I. Fairbanks
& Co. of st bloomsbury; the Mercantile Trust Co.
Of New York City; the First National Bank Of St.
Johnsbury; James R. Nichols OF Haverbi !, Mass. !;
Bradley Barlow Of st Adams; the National Bank
Of the ReUublic of the City of Philadelphia; Isaac
prcs Of said PhaSdelphia the Trustees Of Am
Ogdensburg Railroad Co., IsraEl L. WashbuIne Jr.,
Philip Henry Brown. the Portland Rolling Mills, Of
and Capen, Sprague g Co. of Boston, Mass, are
each and all holders OF kind OF securities or
claims AGAINST said Railroads, together with many
other creditors, too numerous to be made parties to
their petition but all of whom will be duly and fair
1y represented by of the aforementioned credf
tors, and praying that said Court will on due notice
to the aforesaid creditors fix time and place for the
hearing the matter set for in their petition, and
will order and direct that for the aud uses
therein set forth the sum of Five Hundred Thousand
dollars may be by them raised, in such manner for
such time, at such of interest and under such
provisions as to the securing and paying the as
TO the Court may seem meet and that such further
and other orders and directions may be made in the
premises as to the Court may seem meet.
Whereup0n SAID Petition having been verified by
oath and filed in said cause, 1t is Ordered by said
Court that the same stand for hearing on the 9th
day OF December, A. d. 1873 at ten O'Clock in the
forenoon, at the Court House in st. Johnsbury and
that the same be sreved on all the parties named in
said Petition re dent in the Stae or who have ap-
pesred in said cause, by delivering to them or TO
their solicitors copy OF the same and of this nrder at
least twenty days before the time set for sad hear
ing, and on all other parties, and on all who have
liens on said roads and property, by publishing the
substance of said petition and of this order, for
three successive publications, in the Portland Daily
Press, the Boston Daily journal, and the New York
Daily Tribune the last of which pubcati ms shall be
at least twenty days before the time appointed for
hearing the same.
DATED at st. bloomsbury this 23d day Of November,
A. D. 1878.
A. E. RANKIN, Clerk
Of Caledonia County Court of Chancery.
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