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Timestamp: 2020-08-08 12:44:50
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21']

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RAIL   ROADS. 287
thereupon recovered against him, the said company shall be liable for the same.
8 18. Any person who may wilfully trespass upon the chartered rights
and imrnuities of the said corporation, or who may injure the property of said
matter or thing whatsoever upon the said rail road or its branches, or who
shall in any manner injure the same or its appurtenances, shall be indicted before the circuit court of the proper county, for a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shallbe punished by fine and imprisonment, and shall, moreover, be
liable to an action for civil damages in trespass on the case to the said company, or to any individual whose property or person maybe injured thereby:
Provided, nevertheless, That if death shall ensue from any wilful, wanton,
and malicious removal or disturbance of the constructions aforesaid, or from
the wilful, wanton, and malicious putting and placing of obstructions on the
said rail road or its branches, each person or persons so offending shall be
deemed guilty of murder, and upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death.
§ 19. The written consent of any owner or propietor of any lands through
wich the said rail road is to be constructed, showing their agreement to the
same, shall be as valid and effectual to give the same power to, and authority
over the lands covered by the said rail road, as if the same had been conveyed by deed of bargain and sale, or condemned by the provisions of the twelfth
§ 20. The General Assembly of this State shall have authority, at the
termination of forty years after the said rail road shall have been completed,
to purchase the said rail road and its branches, together with all and singular
its cars, wagons, vehicles, locomotives, and their necessary and proper appendages, and all implements necessary and proper for keeping in repair the
said rail road and its branches. The State shall pay to the company the actual cost of the said rail road and its branches, with twenty-five per centum
on the said amount, if the said road and its branches shall be in good repair;
and if not in good repair, the State shall pay to the company the actual costs
of the said road and branches, with twenty-five per centum on the said
amount deducting therefrom the amount which may be necessary to place
the said road and its branches in good repair, which last amount, together with
the price of the cars, wagons, vehicles, locomotives, and their necessary and
keeping in repairthe said rail road aud its branches, shall be ascertained and
determined in the following manner, viz: Three valuers to be appointed by
the governor of this State, and three valuers to be appointed by the president
and directors of the company, shall meet and select an umpire, and at such
time and place as the. General Assembly may hereafter appoint, proceed to
examine and determine the matters hereinbefore confided to them, and make
report of the same in writing, signed and sealed by said valuers and umpire,
to the governor of the State for the time being, so soon as may be: The said
valuers and umpire, before proceeding to the performance of their said duties,
shall respectively take an oath before some officer empowered to administer
oaths, fairly and impartially to discharge same, the and a certificate of said oath,
signed by the officer before whom the same is taken, shall accompany the said
report; Provided nevertheless, That U shall be the duty of the General Assembly to give at least four years notice to the president and directors of the
said company af its intention to purchase as aforesaid, which said notice
shalll be in writing.
§ 21. It shall be the duty of that Generall Assembly, which is required in
the preceding section, to give notice of the intention of the State to purchase the said rail road and its branches, &c. as aforesaid; also, to  determine
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Transcript RAIL ROADS. 287 penalty in the service of the company, shall be unable to pay the judgment thereupon recovered against him, the said company shall be liable for the same. 8 18. Any person who may wilfully trespass upon the chartered rights and imrnuities of the said corporation, or who may injure the property of said company, or who shall throw earth, stones, logs, trees, rubbish, or any other matter or thing whatsoever upon the said rail road or its branches, or who shall in any manner injure the same or its appurtenances, shall be indicted before the circuit court of the proper county, for a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shallbe punished by fine and imprisonment, and shall, moreover, be liable to an action for civil damages in trespass on the case to the said company, or to any individual whose property or person maybe injured thereby: Provided, nevertheless, That if death shall ensue from any wilful, wanton, and malicious removal or disturbance of the constructions aforesaid, or from the wilful, wanton, and malicious putting and placing of obstructions on the said rail road or its branches, each person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder, and upon conviction thereof, shall suffer death. § 19. The written consent of any owner or propietor of any lands through wich the said rail road is to be constructed, showing their agreement to the same, shall be as valid and effectual to give the same power to, and authority over the lands covered by the said rail road, as if the same had been conveyed by deed of bargain and sale, or condemned by the provisions of the twelfth section of this act. § 20. The General Assembly of this State shall have authority, at the termination of forty years after the said rail road shall have been completed, to purchase the said rail road and its branches, together with all and singular its cars, wagons, vehicles, locomotives, and their necessary and proper appendages, and all implements necessary and proper for keeping in repair the said rail road and its branches. The State shall pay to the company the actual cost of the said rail road and its branches, with twenty-five per centum on the said amount, if the said road and its branches shall be in good repair; and if not in good repair, the State shall pay to the company the actual costs of the said road and branches, with twenty-five per centum on the said amount deducting therefrom the amount which may be necessary to place the said road and its branches in good repair, which last amount, together with the price of the cars, wagons, vehicles, locomotives, and their necessary and proper appendages, and that of all the implements necessary and proper for keeping in repairthe said rail road aud its branches, shall be ascertained and determined in the following manner, viz: Three valuers to be appointed by the governor of this State, and three valuers to be appointed by the president and directors of the company, shall meet and select an umpire, and at such time and place as the. General Assembly may hereafter appoint, proceed to examine and determine the matters hereinbefore confided to them, and make report of the same in writing, signed and sealed by said valuers and umpire, to the governor of the State for the time being, so soon as may be: The said valuers and umpire, before proceeding to the performance of their said duties, shall respectively take an oath before some officer empowered to administer oaths, fairly and impartially to discharge same, the and a certificate of said oath, signed by the officer before whom the same is taken, shall accompany the said report; Provided nevertheless, That U shall be the duty of the General Assembly to give at least four years notice to the president and directors of the said company af its intention to purchase as aforesaid, which said notice shalll be in writing. § 21. It shall be the duty of that Generall Assembly, which is required in the preceding section, to give notice of the intention of the State to purchase the said rail road and its branches, &c. as aforesaid; also, to determine