Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-01

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the company. 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-
lied 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 fide
subscriptions to its capital stock to the
amount of 100000 with ten per cent.
paid in. The route as laid down by this
act was as follows: beginning at 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-fiftb degree of
latitude, to some point on Puget's Sound
with branch via the valley of the Colum-
bia river to point at or near Portland in
the state of Oregon, leaving the main
trunk line at the most suitable place, not
more than 300 miles from its western
terminus" The capital stock was fixed at
100000 shares at 500 each. The COM
mlssloners or incorporators named in the
act were:
Maine-RicEard D. Rice, John A. Poore,
Samuel P. Strickland, Samuel G. Fes-
sender. Charles P. Kimball, Augustine
Haines, Edwin R. W. Wiggin, Arson p.
Morrill, and Samuel j Anderson.
Massachusetts - Willard Sears, l.. s.
Wilmington, Josiah Perham, James M.
| Beckett, A. W. Banield, 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 Thompson and John A. Green.
Commercially. NJ. Allyn, Moses W.
Wilson, Horace Whitaker and Ira Bliss.
New Hampshire A. Gilmore,
Onslow Stearns, E. P. Emerson, Frederick
Smyth aid William Z. Chandler.
Minnesota-Cyrus AIdricb, q. M. Rice,
John McKraick, II. G. Waite and Stephen
Miller.
Vermont-E. A. Chaplin, John Gregory
Smith and George Merrill.
Rhode Island-JamesT T. Smith, William
s. Slater, Isaac H. Southwick and Earl P.
Mason.
Illinois-Seth Fuller, William Kellogg,
o. s. Grant, William B. Ogden, William G.
Greene, Leonard Sweat, Henry W. Blodgett
and Potter Sheldon.
Kansas. NJ. Mitchell, Ellsworth Cheese
borough and James s. Emery.
California-Richard F. Perkins, Richard
Chenery, Samuel Brannan, George Row
land and Henry Platt.
Virginia William F Mercer and James
W. Bromley.
Maryland-John H. Latrobe and W.
Prescott Smith.
West Virginia Greenburg Slack and A.
j. Boreman.
Kentucky-Thomas E. 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 A. Duncan and Samuel
M. Harrington.
Indiana-Thomas A, Morris and Jesse
L. Williams.
Michigan-Samuel L. Chase, Henry L.
Hall, David II. Jerome, Thomas D. Gilbert,
and G. A. Trowbridge.
Wisconsin-Edward II. Broadhead, Alex
ander Mitchell, Benjamin Ferguson, Levi
Sterling and - Marshal.
Oregon-J. G. Ainsworth, Orlando
Humason, q. W. Corbett and Henry
Failing.
Dakota-J. B. S. Todd, W. K. Armstrong,
]. Shaw Gregory and J.. LIE Berge.
Washington-John Mullan, Arson G.
Henry, S. D. Smith, and Charles Terry.
Iowa-H. W. Starr, Platt Smith, Nixon
Denton, William Leighton, B. F. Allen,
Rueben Noble and John Davies.
Missouri-Willard P. Hall, George R.
Smith, 81. Gale King and John G. Sar-
geant.
Idaho-William II. Wallace.
District of Columbia. 81. Lathrop,
Henry D. Cooke and H. E. Merrick.
The majority of these incorporators
were never after heard of in convention
with the Northern Pacific railroad, but the
act constituted any fifteen of them a
quorum for the transaction of business,
which was to organize the company, open
books of subscription, call meeting of
stockholders to elect directors and turn
over the books, etc., to the directors
whereafter the stockholders we're to con-
stitute the body polite and corporate, and
the duties of the incorporators or COM
missioners and their officers ceased for
ever.
An act of congress of May Z, 1866. ex
tended for two years the time for COM
mencing and completing the Northern
Pacific railroad. In the original act for
fixture of the charter and grant by non
compliance with its conditions was clearly
left to be determined only by an act or
declaration of congress, which was to be
for furtherance of the object of the char
ter and grant, or the building of the rail
road.
July L, 1868, congress amended its acts
by fixing the time for beginning work
within two years from the next day, and
requiring that one hundred miles per year
be constructed after the second year, and
that the whole be completed by July A,
1877.
By resolution of March 1, 1869, congress
authorized the company to issue bonds