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Timestamp: 2019-08-21 01:55:55
Document Index: 503355838

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 13', '§ 15', '§ 16', '§ 13', '§ 15', '§ 16']

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RAIL   ROADS. 279
authority- Said road may also pass over all canals, rivers and waters, so as
not to obstruct the navigation thereof, and across other rail roads, so as not
to obstruct a free passage along them.
jj 10. Said president and directors may purchase and use on said road all
machines, wagons, and vehicles, and teams of any kind, and all such property
and all profits of said company shall be vested in the shareholders of said
company, in proportion to the number of shares, and the same shall be personal property and [free] from tax and public charge.
jj 11. Said president and directors may fix and alter the rates of toll,
freight or passage, on said road, but said rates shall not exceed ten cents per
mile for every passenger, and twelve cents per mile for every ton of freight,
except that they shall in no case.be bound to receive a passenger or package
for less than twelve cents; and said company shall report biennially to the
General Assembly a statement of its affairs, and they shall have a lien on all
property for the tolls and freight thereon.
jj 12. After said road shall be completed and in operation, if said company shall by reason of the same being out of repair, except by inevitable
accident, or from other cause, fail to transport any produce or property conveniently deposited, the toll for transportation being tendered, said company
shall be liable to the action of the party injured for such failure, but said
company shall not be compelled to transport more property or passengers
than the cars of the company in ordinary use are capable of carrying when
§ 13. If any toll gatherer demand greater tolls than herein allowed, he
shall forfeit to the party aggrieved twenty dollars for every such offence,with
costs, in an action before a justice of the peace; and if such toll gatherer be
unable to pay the amount of .such judgment, said company shall pay the
jj 14. If any person wilfully trespass upon the property or chartered rights
of said company, or throw earth, stones, logs, trees, rubbish, or any other thing
upon said road or its appurtenances, he may be indicted in the said county,
and punished by fine and imprisonment, and shall be liable to a civil action
for damages to said company or to any individual, whose person or property
may be injured thereby, and if dealh ensue from any wanton or wilful removal or disturbance of the constructions aforesaid, or from the wanton and
wilful putting of obstructions on said road, the person so offending shall be
deemed guilty of murder, and be punished accordingly.
§ 15. The General Assembly of this State shall have authority, at the end
of forty years after said rail road shall be completed, to purchase said rail
read, with all its appurtenances, vehicles, locomotives, and other appendages,
Mid all implements for using and keeping the same in repair, by paying to
said, company the actual cost thereof, to be determined by three valuers appointed by said company, and three others by the State, and they shall appoint their umpire, who shall meet at the time appointed by the General Assembly, and shall proceed to examine, and determine the matters confided to
™fh, and make report to the Governor of Missouri. Said valuers and umpire sha,l take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties assigned them.
§ 16. If said president and directors do not begin said work in two years,
a"d complete the same in six months after the passage of this act, the interest
°i said company in this charter shall be forfeited and cease.
_ 17. If said company violate this charter, the circuit court of St. Charles
county may, on the application of any party interested, issue a scire ficias
against said company, specifically stating the charges relied on, and calling
°n said company to show cause why the charter of the same shall not be for-
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Transcript RAIL ROADS. 279 authority- Said road may also pass over all canals, rivers and waters, so as not to obstruct the navigation thereof, and across other rail roads, so as not to obstruct a free passage along them. jj 10. Said president and directors may purchase and use on said road all machines, wagons, and vehicles, and teams of any kind, and all such property and all profits of said company shall be vested in the shareholders of said company, in proportion to the number of shares, and the same shall be personal property and [free] from tax and public charge. jj 11. Said president and directors may fix and alter the rates of toll, freight or passage, on said road, but said rates shall not exceed ten cents per mile for every passenger, and twelve cents per mile for every ton of freight, except that they shall in no case.be bound to receive a passenger or package for less than twelve cents; and said company shall report biennially to the General Assembly a statement of its affairs, and they shall have a lien on all property for the tolls and freight thereon. jj 12. After said road shall be completed and in operation, if said company shall by reason of the same being out of repair, except by inevitable accident, or from other cause, fail to transport any produce or property conveniently deposited, the toll for transportation being tendered, said company shall be liable to the action of the party injured for such failure, but said company shall not be compelled to transport more property or passengers than the cars of the company in ordinary use are capable of carrying when in good order. § 13. If any toll gatherer demand greater tolls than herein allowed, he shall forfeit to the party aggrieved twenty dollars for every such offence,with costs, in an action before a justice of the peace; and if such toll gatherer be unable to pay the amount of .such judgment, said company shall pay the same. jj 14. If any person wilfully trespass upon the property or chartered rights of said company, or throw earth, stones, logs, trees, rubbish, or any other thing upon said road or its appurtenances, he may be indicted in the said county, and punished by fine and imprisonment, and shall be liable to a civil action for damages to said company or to any individual, whose person or property may be injured thereby, and if dealh ensue from any wanton or wilful removal or disturbance of the constructions aforesaid, or from the wanton and wilful putting of obstructions on said road, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder, and be punished accordingly. § 15. The General Assembly of this State shall have authority, at the end of forty years after said rail road shall be completed, to purchase said rail read, with all its appurtenances, vehicles, locomotives, and other appendages, Mid all implements for using and keeping the same in repair, by paying to said, company the actual cost thereof, to be determined by three valuers appointed by said company, and three others by the State, and they shall appoint their umpire, who shall meet at the time appointed by the General Assembly, and shall proceed to examine, and determine the matters confided to ™fh, and make report to the Governor of Missouri. Said valuers and umpire sha,l take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties assigned them. § 16. If said president and directors do not begin said work in two years, a"d complete the same in six months after the passage of this act, the interest °i said company in this charter shall be forfeited and cease. _ 17. If said company violate this charter, the circuit court of St. Charles county may, on the application of any party interested, issue a scire ficias against said company, specifically stating the charges relied on, and calling °n said company to show cause why the charter of the same shall not be for-