Railroad Across the Continent: With an Account of the Central Pacific Railroad of California : a Description of the Route, the Progress and Character of the Work, the Organization, Resources, and Prospects of the Company, with the Foundation and Advantages of the First Mortgage Bonds

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Brown & Hewitt, Printers, 1868 - 31 páginas
 

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Página 12 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Página 12 - ... and the right, power and privilege is hereby granted to, conferred upon and vested in them, to construct, maintain and operate, by steam or other power, the said railroad and telegraph line mentioned in said...
Página 27 - ... issue their first mortgage bonds on their respective railroad and telegraph lines to an amount not exceeding the amount of the bonds of the United States...
Página 8 - ... of one hundred and fifty miles each, the bonds to be issued to aid in the construction thereof shall be double the number per mile first mentioned...
Página 15 - State concerning railroad and telegraph lines, except that messages and property of the United States, of this State, and of the said Company, shall have priority of transportation and transmission over said line of railroad and telegraph ; hereby confirming to and vesting in said Company all the rights, privileges, franchises, power, and authority conferred upon, granted to, or vested in said Company by said Act of Congress ; hereby repealing all laws and parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict...
Página 15 - ... right, power and privilege is hereby granted to, conferred upon and vested in them, to construct, maintain and operate the said railroad and telegraph line, not only in the State of California, but also in the said territories lying east of and between said State and the Missouri River, with such branches and extensions of said railroad and telegraph line, or either of them, as said company may deem necessary or proper; and also the right of way for said railroad and telegraph line over any lands...
Página 8 - ... and the same shall be issued, and the lands herein granted be set apart, upon the construction of every twenty miles thereof, upon the certificate of the commissioners as aforesaid that twenty consecutive miles of the same are completed...
Página 13 - Congress," and thereby confirmed and vested in the company "all the rights, privileges, franchises, power, and authority conferred upon, granted to, or vested in said company by said act of Congress...
Página 13 - State, and on, over and along any streets, roads, highways, rivers, streams, water and water courses, but the same to be so constructed as not to obstruct or destroy the passage or navigation of the same ; and also the right to condemn and appropriate to the use of said company such private property, rights, privileges and franchises as may be proper, necessary or convenient for the purposes of said railroad and telegraph, the compensation therefor to be CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD v.
Página 11 - And the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, after completing the road across said State, is authorized to continue the construction of said railroad and telegraph through the Territories of the United States to the Missouri River, including the branch roads specified in this act, upon the routes hereinbefore and hereinafter indicated, on the terms and conditions provided in this Act in relation to the said Union Pacific Railroad Company, until said road shall meet and connect...

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