The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-04-01
SUPREME COURT,
THE UNION TRUST COMPANY. OF NEW
YORK AND OTHERS nnfendnntr
AARON R. STEVENS, AND OTHERS,

THE UNION TRUST COMPANY. OF NEW
YORK, AND OTHERS, Defendants.
In pursuance of a Judgment Of the Supreme
Court OF New York, made in the above entitled
action, dated the 10th day of November, 1891, and
entered in the clerks office of the County Of
Rensselaer,, on the 18th day November, 1891 1.-THE
undersigned referee in said judgment named will
sell at public auction, at the front door of the
Court House. in the City of Troy, on the 18th day
May, 1892 at O'Clock in the afternoon, the prem.
Uses property, fran ;hes and powers in said judR-
ment mentioned and therein described as follows
All the franchises and powers conferred upon
the Lebanon Springs Railroad Company. by the
following acts of the legislature of the State of
New York, each of which was duly passed upon
the date hereinafter stated that is to say:
IAN Act to authorize the Lebanon Springs Rail.
roao Company to construct an extension of its
roads into Massachusetts and Vermont and to
provide means therefor, passed March 9Th, 1883
and being Chapter Is Of the laws OF that year.
IAN Act to amend an Act entitled AN Act to
authorize the Lebanon Springs Railroad Com
pany to construct an extension of It's road into
Massachusetts, and Vermont and to provide
means therefor passed March Sth 1853, :" pas sed
June Path. 1853, and being Chapter 461 of the laws
of that year;
AN Act to enable certain connecting railroad
'compsr les to aid in the construction Of the Leh-
amen Springs Railroad, passed April 18th, 1885,
and being Chapter $50 of the laws OF that year;
"An Act to extend the time for the completion
'ot the Lebanon Springs Railroad; passed NJ arch
23rd, 1857, and being Chapter $50 Of the laws of
that wear;
can Act to extend the time for tho completion
-'oi the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed April
18th, 1860. and being Chapter 2S5 of the laws of
AN Act to extend the time for the completion
'of the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed April
q 1862 and being Chapter 444 Of the laws Of that
year;
"An Act 10 amend the charter Of the Lebanon
-'Springs Railroad Company" passed April eth
1904. and being Chapter l45 Of the laws of that
year;
"An Act to authorize any town in the counties
''of Columbia or Rensselaer, 10 aid in the compile
'tion OF the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed
April 4th 1866, and being Chapter 1913 of the laws
of that year;
IAN Act to extend the time for the completion
.'of the Lebanon Springs Railroad" passed 26th
February 1867 and being Chapter 46 Of the laws
of that year.
And all the powers and franchises of railroad
corporations stated in An act to authorize the
FORMATION of railroad companies, aud to regu-
late the same, passed by the Legislature OF New
YORK. April 2, 1850, and the several acts amenda-
tory thereof and supplementary thereto, and the
power to purchase, construct and operate the
railroad hereinafter described, extending from
Chatham -Four Corners, in the County of Column
bia, northerly through the Counties Of Columbia
and Rensselaer, to the borders Of the State of
vermont, and into that state to the village of
Bennington. and also the certain other special and
particular powers and franchises stated in the
above acts and also the following powers and
franchises, to wit:
To exercise all the powers and authorities in re
spect to the constructing holding and ope rating
the part OF said railroad within the state Of Yer
mont, and the anaging'of the business thereof,
which might be done If that part were within the
State Of New York.
To create preferred stock at such rate of diyi-
dend, or interest, and with such securities there
for as may be deemed expedent
To extend the road by construction or purchase
int the States Of Vermont anG Massachusetts. as
far as is or may be permitted by the authority of
said States.
To consolidate with any company or companies
having railroad or the right to build a railroad,
which 1.-THE Lebanon Springs Railroad Com
pany was authorized 10 construct or acquire on
such terms as the parties should agree upon, or
the States of Vermont and Massachusetts should
require; and
To consolidate either alone or after consolida-
tion with any company into a single corporation,
with any company having railroad, or the right
20 construct a railroad. which, or a portion of
which should be within the State of New York,
and which should connect with the railroad of
the Lebanon Springs Railroad Company at its
terminus, In the same manner as the TailJ Dad
companies mentioned in an act entitled n act to
"authOrze the consolidation Of certain railroad
companies, passed by the Legislature Of New
York. April I'd, 1858.
To exercise all the powers with respect to the
railroads or portions OF railroads which might be
constructed or acquired within the States Of Yer
mont and Massachusetts as may be exercised If