Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-03

$4,000, and include complete equipment
of the road, but no branches or equip
ment for the same.
The COnpnay;s Charter.
July ., 1864, the president approved an
act of congress granting lands to aid in
the construction of railroad and tele-
graph line from Lake Superior to Puget's
sound on the Pacific coast, by the north
ern route. This act gave the company
right of way and material for construction
on public lands, the width of the right of
way being 200 feet on each side of the
track and this right of way being exempt
from taxation in the territories. 1t also
granted lands in aid of the construction of
the road-every alternate section, not miu-
eral, designated by odd numbers, to the
amount of twenty alternate sections per
mile, on each side Of the line adopted by
the com pany, through the territories, and
ten alternate sections per mile on each side
within the states In case of such lands
having been reserved or sold by the gov
eminent the company was to be indemni-
fed by selections of ODD sections not more
than ten miles beyond the limits of the
grant. Iron and coal lands were excepted
from the reservation of mineral lands, so
that the grant might cover coal and iron
mines. The charter and grant was made
conditional upon work being commenced
within two years, fifty miles per year to
be built after the second year and the
whole was to be built and equipped by
July, 1876. The act was also to be void
unless the company obtained bona fde
subscrI ptions to its capital stock to the
amount of S2,000,000 with ten per cent.
paid in. The route as laid down by this
act was as follows: beginning at a point
on Lake Superior in the state of Minneso-
ia or Wisconsin; thence westerly
by the most eligible railroad route, as
shall be determined by said company,
within the territory of the United States,
on line north of the forty fifth degree Of
| latitude, to some point on Puget's Sound
with branch via the valley Of the Column
bia river to a point at or near Portland in
the state of Oregon, leaving the main
trunk line at the most suitable place, not
more than 800 miles from its western
terminus" The capital stock was fixed at
100000 shares at 500 each. The COM
missloners or incorporates named in the
act were:
Maine Richard D. Rice. John A. Poore,
sender, Charles ?. KimbaIl, Augustine
Haines, Edwin B. w. Wiggin. Arson P.
Morrill, and Samuel j. Anderson.
Massachusetts - Willard Scars, I. S.
Wilmington, Josiah Perham, James NJ.
Beckett, A. W. Banfeld, Abiel Abbott, John
Newell, Austin L. Rogers, Nathaniel
Greene, Jr., Oliver Frost, John A. Bass,
John O. Bresbey, George Shiverick, Ed
ward Tyler, Filander S. Forristall and
Ivory H. Pope.
New York - George Opdyke, Farley
Holmes, John Higgins, Philander Reed,
George Briggs, Chauncy Vibbard and
John G. Fremont.
New Jersey-Ephraim Marsh and John
P. Jackson, Jr.
Pennsylvania--S M. FELTON,, John Foy,
o. J. Dickey, B. F. Archer, G. W. Cass, j.
Edgar Thomps and John A. Green.
Connecticut-T. M. Allyn, Moses W .
Wilson, Horace Whitaker and Ira Bliss.
New pshire-Joseph A. Gilmore,
Onslow Stearns, E. P. Emerson, Frederick
Smyth ahd William 4. Chandler.
Minnesota-Cyrus Aldricb, 81. NJ. Rice,
John McKraick, FL. G. Waite and Stephen
Miller.
Vermont-E. A. Chaplin, John Gregory
Smith and George Merrill.
Rhode Island-James L. Smith, William
S. Slater, Isaac Il. Southwick and Earl p.
Mason.
Illinois-Seth Fuller, William Kellogg,
q. S. Grant, William B. Ogden, William G.
Greene, Leonard Sweat, Henry W. Blodgett
and Potter Sheldon.
Kansas. M. Mitchell, Ellsworth Cheese
borough and James S. Emery.
California-RichardF F. Perkins, Richard
Chenery, Samuel Brannan, George Row
land and Henry Platt.
Virginia-William E. Mercer and James
W. Bromley.
Mary land-John H. Latrobe and w.
Prescott Smith.
West Notwithstanding Slack and A,
j. Foreman.
observation-disclosures z. Bramlett and
Frank Shorin.
Ohio-John Brough, John A. Bingham,
Oran Follett, John Gardner, S. s. L'Hom-
medien, Harrison G.. Bleker, and Philo
Chamberlain.
Delaware ohm A. Duncan and Samuel
M. Harrington.
Indiana Thomas A. Morris and Jesse
L. Williams.
Michigan Samuel L. Chase, Henry L.
Hall, David H. Jerome, Thomas D. GILBERT,
and G. A. Trow bridge.
Wisconsin-Edward 81. Broadhead, Alex
ander Mitchell, Benjamin Ferguson, Levi
Sterling and - Marshal.
Oregon-J. G. Ainsworth, Orlando
Humason IT W Corbett and Henry
Failing.
D.kota-J. B. s. Todd. W. K. Armstrong,
J. Shaw Gregory and j. Lie Berge.
Neutrality-suspicious. Muilan, Arson G.
Henry, S. D. Smith, ana Charles Terry.
Iowa-H. w. Starr, Platt Smith, Nixon
Denton, William Leighton, B. B. Allen,
Rueben Noble AMI ohm Davies.
Missourl-Willard z. Hall, George r.
Smith, 81. Gale King and Johu @. Sar-
geant.
Idaho-William H. Wallace
District of Columbia. e. Lathrop,
Henry D Cooke and 81. E MerrIck.
The majority of these Incorpprators