AN ACT to authorize the cities of St. Louis and Carondelet to take stock in the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company. 1. Stock authorized to be taken; how |§ 2. City of Carondelet authorized to sub- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. The city of St. Louis is hereby authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain, Railroad Company any amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; and for that purpose may appropriate the funds or issue the bonds of said city in payment of such subscription; and the City Council of said city shall provide by ordinance the amount of such subscription, the manner of payment, and make such provisions as they shall deem necessary to have the city represented in elections and other meetings of the stockholders of said company. § 2. The city of Carondelet is also authorized to subscribed (subscribe) to the capital stock of said company any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; and for that purpose the same powers are conferred upon the City Council of said city as is conferred upon the City Council of St. Louis in the first section of this act. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT to aid in the construction of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. § 1. Additional State credit to the amount § 4. No stockholder in said company shall of $750,000 granted to Iron Moun tain Railroad. 2. Board of Public Works appointed; their powers and duties. 3. When this act shall bind company. be a member of Board of Public Works; oath to that effect to be taken. 5. Vacancies in Board to be filled by Gov ernor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. That for the purpose of nearly equalizing the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad with the other railroads to which State credit has been granted, there is hereby granted to the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad State credit to the amount of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the amount already granted to that railroad, upon the sameterms, conditions, provisions and restrictions as prescribed by former laws. now in force granting State credit to the several railroads. § 2. There is hereby constituted a Board of Public Works, to consist of three members, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the con sent of the Senate, and who shall hold office for the term of four years, commencing March 20, 1855; and it shall be their duty to examine from time to time, as may seem to them necessary, or as they shall be required so to do by the Governor, not less than once in each year, into the construction of said road and the management of said company; and for that purpose shall have access to the books and papers of said company, and said Board shall at least once in each year report to the Governor all material particulars as to the construction of the said road and management of the company; and in case said Board or any two of them shall have reason to believe that said company have not made its expenditures and conducted its affairs in good faith, it shall be their duty to report the same to the Governor, who may, if deemed necessary by him, cause further examination into the construction of the said railroad and management of such company to be made, to enable him to judge fully of the matter; and in case the Governor and a majority of said Board are of opinion that the expenditures of such company have not been made in good faith in the spirit of this act, the Governor shall withhold the further issue of any State bonds, authorized by this or former acts of the General Assembly from such company, until such company shall have rectified and remcdied such misapplied expenditure in a manner satisfactory to the Governor and a majority of said Board. The members of said Board shall be paid by the State at the rate of five dollars for each member for each day when on duty, and traveling expenses. § 3. This act shall not take effect, as to said company, unless said company shall, within six months after the passage of the same, accept it as applicable to such company; such acceptance to be executed by the President of the company under the corpcrate seal of such company and to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the provisions of this act shall become a law from and after the date of the filing such acceptance as above specified; and unless such acceptance be filed as aforesaid within six months and until the filing the same, this act is inoperativc. § 4. Any person holding or owning any stock or other interest whatever in said company, or any property thereof, shall not be qualified to be one of the Board of Public Works; and before entering upon the duties of his office, each member of the Board shall take an affidavit that he will honestly and impartially discharge all the duties imposed upon him by law, and that he will not, whilst such officer, acquire, either directly or indirectly, any interest whatever in said railroad company or any property thereof. § 5. Any vacancy in the Board of Public Works shall be filled by appointment of the Governor. This act to take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT authorizing the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company to erect a Bridge across the Meramec river. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, asfollows: § 1. The St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company may, and are hereby authorized to, build a bridge across the Meramec river, at or near the mouth of the said river, for laying the track of said road on the same. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1857. AN ACT concerning the Lands of the Hannibal and St. Joseph and Iron Mountain Railroad Companies. § 1. Land Agents to make lists of lands of § 2. Such record shall be evidence, except the companies. and file with the Rein case of trespass before the pascorder of the county in which they sage of this act. are situate. 3. This act not to affect any individual or county rights. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. It shall be the duty of the land agents of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad and Iron Mountain Railroad Company, within six months after the passage of this act, to make a separate descriptive list of all lands granted to said companies by the State of Missouri by the act approved September 20, 1852, (as the same have been certified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior), for each county through which the line of their road passes, or in which any of said lands are located, designating the same by their legal subdivisions, and to cause the same to be attested by the Secretary of said company, under his official seal, and to file the same for record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in each of said counties. § 2. Said record may be offered in evidence in any suit for trespass on said lands, or in any case in which the title to any of said lands may be in question by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, said Iron Mountain Railroad Company, or any person claiming under them, and shall be received in any court as prima facie evidence of the company's title to the same; Provided, That such record shall not be used as evidence in favor of said company on the trial of any suit for trespass committed before the passage of this act. §3. This act shall not impair or affect the right or title of any individual, county, or the State, to any of the lands referred to in this act. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT explanatory and amendatory of an act to expedite the construction of the Iron Mountain Branch of the Pacific Railroad, approved December 25, 1852. See page 68. AN ACT to secure the prompt payment of Interest on State Bonds. AN ACT to amend an act to secure the completion of certain Railroads in this State, and for other purposes, approved December 10, 1855. See page 89. AN ACT supplemental to an act to amend an act to secure the completion of certain Railroads in this State, and for other purposes, approved March 3d, 1857. See page 95. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the formation of Railroad Associations, and to regulate the same. See page 107. HANNIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD COMPANY. ACTS GRANTING STATE AİD TO. AN ACT to appropriate money for the survey and marking out the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the surveying and marking out the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, from Hannibal, in Marion county, to St. Joseph, in Buchanan county. § 2. Whenever the President and Directors of the said railroad company shall be informed that the Congress of the United States have donated alternate sections of the public lands, to the extent of six miles upon each side of the said contemplated railroad from one end to the other, it shall then be the duty of the said President and Directors to employ some skillful and competent Surveyor, and such number of assistants and hands as may be necessary for the speedy completion of said survey, and have the same done without delay. § 3. When said survey shall be completed upon the terms and conditions herein provided, the President of said company shall certify to the Auditor of Public Accounts the amount due each and every person who may have been employed in making said survey; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor thereupon to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amount thus ascertained to be due any person employed as aforesaid in the surveying and marking out said road; and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to pay the warrants thus drawn, out of the rund herein appropriated for said work; and the State of Missouri shall at any time before the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad is completed, upon the passage of an act by the General Assembly to that effect, be entitled to receive from the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company certificates of stock in said company to the amount of the appropriation made by and under this act. Approved March 8, 1849. AN ACT to accept a grant of land made to the State of Missouri by the Congress of the United States, to aid in the construction of certain Railroads in this State, and to apply a portion thereof to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. § 1. The right to certain lands vested in § 5. Pre-emption granted settlers on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, 2. Company to select the lands by agent, 3. Company to pay tax on their road as 4. This act and all grants shall be void lands, settlers to notify the company of their claim. 6. Lands unsold at the end of ten years to be offered annually at public sale. 7. Map of the road and land after the road is located to be filed in the office of Secretary of State. 8. Company authorized to issue its bonds and to mortgage the land to secure their payment. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. That all that portion of the lands granted to this State by the act of Congress, entitled "An act granting the right of way to the State of Missouri, and a portion of the Public Lands, to aid in the construction of certain Railroads in said State," approved June 10th, 1852, so far as the same are applicable to the construction of a railroad from the town of Hannibal to the town of St. Joseph in this State, and which may be selected or located in conformity with its provisions, together with all the rights and privileges thereto belonging, or in said act granted, shall vest in full and complete title, in the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, for the uses and purposes, and subject to the conditions, reversion and provisions set forth and contained in said act of Congress. § 2. The selection of lands provided for in the act of Congress aforesaid, shall be made by said company, or such agent or agents as it may designate, under the appointment of the Governor, subject to the approval in |