This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20th, 1857. Rates of toll. Proviso. Penalty for pass ing over bridge tence. AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the Lecompton Bridge Company to demand and receive tolls from travellers and others crossing or passing over said bridge not exceeding the following rates; Provided, that said rates may be regulated by any succeeding legislative assembly: For every carriage used for the purpose of trade or agriculture, having four wheels and two horses, mules or oxen, fifty cents; same drawn by four horses, mules or oxen, one dollar; same for every additional pair or yoke, twenty cents; every carriage for personal accommodation, or pleasure, four wheels and two horses, &c., sixty cents; same drawn by four horses, one dollar and twenty cents; every dearborn wagon, buggy, or two wheel carriage of pleasure, drawn by one horse, thirty cents; every horse with rider, twenty-five cents; same without rider, ten cents; for every score of sheep or swine, twenty cents; every head of horned or muly cattle, ten cents; every foot passenger, ten cents; sleighs and sleds to be rated as wagons and carriages; persons not belonging to wagons or carriages crossing, who may be riding thereon, each ten cents; Provided, that every person going to or returning from a funeral, divine worship, students or children attending any school or seminary of learning, shall, at all times, be exempt from tolls. SEC. 2. That if any person or persons passing over the said under false pre- bridge shall falsely represent that he, she or they are going to or returning from a funeral, divine worship or school, or shall in any way attempt to evade, by false representations, the tolls, said person or persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars and all costs and expenses, to be recovered in the corporate name of the said company, before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction, by action of debt or otherwise, as by law recoverable. * SEC. 3. That said bridge company are hereby authorized to May issue bonds. issue bonds for the construction of said bridge to such amount only as may be necessary to construct and complete said bridge. and toll-house, and may sell the same in such amount, upon such terms above or below par, and at such rates of interest, as may be agreed upon by the parties interested, not to exceed ten per cent. per annum; Provided, said bonds shall not be Proviso. issued for a less amount than twenty-five dollars; and provided further, that said bonds shall not be circulated as money, nor shall said company exercise any banking powers. SEC. 4. That A. W. Jones, S. B. Moore, M. D. Hickman, D. T. Mitchell and W. R. Simmons be added to the number of the commissioners appointed to carry out the provisions of this charter. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17th, 1857. Additional commissioners. AN ACT to incorporate the Topeka Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: Names of corporators and their SECTION 1. The right and privilege of building and maintaining a bridge across the Kansas river, at any point upon said powers. river not less than five nor more than ten miles above the village of Tecumseh, is hereby granted for the period of twentyone years, to F. L. Crane, Thomas G. Thornton, M. C. Dickly, S. F. Walkley and L. G. Cleaveland, or their assigns, or such persons as may be associated with them for that purpose. SEC. 2. Said Crane and the other persons named in the foregoing section, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to form a company to be known as the Topeka Bridge Company, the capital stock of which shall be one hundred thousand dol- of capital stock. lars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall have power to prescribe by-laws for the regulation of said By-laws. company, receive and collect subscriptions to such capital stock, establish and collect tolls for crossing said bridge, sue and be sued, hold and convey real estate, so much as may be necessary for the construction of said bridge, and do all other Rights. Rates of toll. This act not to interfere with any other company. acts and things, and exercise all the rights and privileges, appertaining to corporations. SEC. 3. The rates of toll on said bridge shall not exceed the average of the rates on the several ferries across said river, established by law, nor shall said bridge be so constructed as to prevent or obstruct the free navigation of said river by steamboats. SEC. 4. No privilege granted in this act shall be so construed as to conflict with any of the rights and privileges of any bridge company which has been incorporated by the legislative assembly of this territory. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 14th, 1857. missioners. AN ACT to incorporate the St. George Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: Names of com- SECTION 1. That John Corby, Joseph Hull and William Ridenbaugh, of St. Joseph, Missouri; J. Sterling Morton and H. P. Downs, of Nebraska city, Nebraska territory; A. J. Baker and Thomas S. Huffaker, of Council Grove; and J. A. J. Chapman, J. D. Adams and Charles Jenkins, of St. George, Kansas territory, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform the several duties hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, they shall procure one or more books, and therein enter as follows: Their duties Of shares of stock. We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the St. George Bridge Company, the sum of ten dollars for each share of stock in said company set opposite to our respective names, in such manner and proportion, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of said company in pursuance of an act of the legislative assembly of Kansas territory, entitled "An act to incorporate the St. George Bridge Company," and shall thereupon proceed to reOf subscriptions. Ceive such subscriptions for the stock of said company at such times and places as they may think proper; Provided always, that every person subscribing shall previously pay to the attending commissioners one dollar for every share subscribed, out of which shall be paid the expenses of taking subscriptions and other incidental charges, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the corporation as soon as the same shall have been organized, agreeably to the provisions of this act. When $5,000 are subscribed, com missioners to certificates. make duplicate pany; SEC. 2. That when ten or more persons shall have subscribed five hundred shares of the said stock, the said commissioners shall make duplicate certificates, under their hands and seals, of the names of the subscribers and the number of shares subscribed by each, one of which certificates shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the territory and recorded in the executive minutes, and the other shall be returned and entered in the books. of the company, and thereupon the said subscribers shall be and hereby are declared incorporated into a company or body politic, in deed and in law, by the name of the St. George Bridge Name of comCompany, and by said name shall have perpetual succession prvi powers and and all privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock as well as the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions in such manner and form as they shall think proper, provided such enlarge- Proviso. ment shall be found necessary to fulfil the intent of this act; and of taking, purchasing and holding, to them and their successors, in fee simple, or for any less estate, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments and estates, real and personal, as shall be necessary or convenient in the prosecution of their work, and the same to sell and dispose of at their pleasure; of suing and being sued, and doing all and every other matter or thing which a corporate or body politic may lawfully do; tified copy of said certificate, under the hand and secretary of the territory, shall be at all times evidence of a compliance with this section. and a cer seal of the certificate under of territory, shall seal of secretary be evidence, &c. Notice shall be given in two pa SEC. 3. That any five of the persons named in this act of incorporation shall, so soon as conveniently may be after sealing pers, &c. the same, give notice in any two papers of the territory, and the same in Missouri and Nebraska, of a time and place to be by them appointed (not less than twenty days from the time of issuing the first notice), at which time and place the said subscribers shall proceed to organize the said corporation, and Election of offshall choose by a majority of votes of said subscribers, by ballot (either by proxy duly authorized or in person), one president, six directors, one treasurer, one secretary, and such other officers as they may think necessary to conduct the business of said company for one year, and until other officers be duly cho cers. By-laws, rules, &c. sen and qualified; and may make such by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this territory, as shall be necessary for the well-being of the affairs of said company; Provided, that each person shall be entitled to one vote for Number of votes each share of stock not exceeding ten, two votes for every five shares above ten and not exceeding fifty, and one vote for every ten shares thereafter, a fraction in excess being counted one. each person is entitled to. President and directors shall procure printed certificates. SEC. 4. That the president and directors first chosen shall procure printed certificates for all the shares of the stock of said company, and shall deliver one such certificate, signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary, and sealed with the seal of the corporation, to each subscriber, for every share held by him, on paying to the treasurer the amount of such share subscribed; which certificate shall be transferable at pleasure, in person or by attorney, in the presence of the preAssignee holding sident or treasurer; and the assignee holding such certificate, having first caused the assignment to be entered on the books of the company kept for that purpose, shall become a member of the incorporation. such certificate, shall become a member of the incorporation. Of meetings. Of construction of said bridge. If any stockholder shall neglect to pay instalments. Shares may be forfeited. SEC. 5. That the president and directors shall meet at such times and places and be convened in such manner as shall be agreed on for transacting their business, and at such meetings five members shall constitute a quorum, who, in the absence of the president, may choose a chairman, and shall keep minutes of all transactions, to be entered in a book. SEC. 6. That said bridge is to extend from St. George across the Kansas river to the opposite shore, and shall be constructed in such manner as not to interfere with the navigation of said river in any way. SEC. 7. That if any stockholder, after thirty days' notice given in two newspapers printed in this territory, and the like number in Nebraska and Missouri, of the time and place for the paying of any instalment which may be called for, shall neglect to pay such instalment for the space of sixty days after the time so appointed, every such stockholder or assignee shall, in addition to the instalment so called for, pay at the rate of two and a half per cent. per month for every delay of such payment; and if the same, and additional penalties, remain unpaid for such a space of time that the accumulated penalties shall become equal to the sums before paid on account of such shares, the same shall be forfeited to the said company, and may be sold to any person or persons, and for such price as can be obtained therefor. |