surplus and forfeited stock, on such terms, at such rates and with such guarantees regarding dividends thereon, as the stockholders of said company shall determine at any stockholders' meeting or meetings called by the board of directors specially for that purpose. Provided, that said stock shall not be sold at a less rate than fifty dollars per share, and that the avails of such sales shall be placed in the hands of the commissioners on said road for the purpose of redeeming all the outstanding notes of said company approved by said commissioners, till all such notes shall have been paid, or sufficient means for the payment thereof have been placed in the hands of said commissioners.

INCORPORATING MORTGAGEES OF THE HOUSATONIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

PASSED 1844.

Upon the petition of Robert Schuyler and others, showing that they are mortgagees of the road and other real and personal estate of the Housatonic Railroad Company, for the benefit of themselves and others, creditors of said corporation, praying for an act of incorporation, or liberty to form a joint stock corporation, as per petition on file:

Resolved by this Assembly, That the said Robert Schuyler, and others who may associate with him, creditors of said Housatonic Railroad Company, be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to constitute themselves a joint stock corporation, with all the powers and privileges and subject to all the duties and liabilities specified in the act, entitled "An act relating to Joint Stock Corporations," with a capital stock not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars, consisting of shares of such an amount as such joint stock corporation may direct, payable in the claims of the creditors aforesaid.

Provided, that this act may at any time be altered, amended or repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly.

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE HOUSATONIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

PASSED 1845.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Housatonic Railroad Company be and is hereby authorized and empowered to add to the capital stock of said company not exceeding five thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each, and to distribute said new stock to the stockholders, or to sell the same, or any part thereof, as well as the surplus and forfeited stock now owned by said company, on such terms, at such rates and with such guarantees regarding dividends thereon, as shall be determined on by the

stockholders, at any meeting called as herein after specified. Provided, that said stock shall not be sold at any less rate than fifty dollars per share, and the avails thereof shall be first subject to the payment of all the notes of said company approved by the commissioners thereon, now outstanding.

Resolved further, That said company is hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of paying its present indebtedness and relaying and refitting said road and its machinery and fixtures, to issue its bonds to an amount not exceeding one million of dollars, payable at not less than one year from date, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent. per annum; which bonds may be secured by a mortgage upon the road and property of said company, executed to the holders of such bonds, or to trustees for their benefit, or may (after all the outstanding obligations of said company, approved by the commissioners on said road, shall have been paid, or means for the payment thereof deposited with said commissioners) be approved by said commissioners, and when so approved shall be subject to all the provisions of the act passed 1839, "to aid in the construction of the Housatonic Railroad," regarding the security attached thereto and the powers and duties of said commissioners relating to the same. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held to impair the rights of any existing creditor of said company.

Resolved further, That these resolutions shall not take effect in regard to said company, till at a legal meeting called for that purpose by order of the board of directors, (of which meeting at least twenty days' notice shall be given in one or more newspapers printed in New York, Bridgeport and Litchfield,) the stockholders of said company shall have assented thereto. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer upon said company the right or privilege of issuing notes for circulation, or of exercising any banking powers whatsoever.

AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE HOUSATONIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

PASSED 1850.

Upon the petition of the Housatonic Railroad Company:

Resolved by this Assembly, That the tenth section of the charter of said company be so amended that the annual meeting of the stockholders of said company may be holden in any month in each year which shall be determined on by the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose.

Provided, that this act shall not take effect until the same shall be approved by the stockholders, at a meeting specially called for that purpose.

INCORPORATING THE KILLINGLY RAILROAD COMPANY.

PASSED 1851.

Resolved by this Assembly, SEC. 1. That Leonard Ballou, Dan. A. Daniels, William L. Alexander, Mowry Amesbury, Calvin Day, John A. Rockwell, J. Newton Perkins, Charles Johnson, Charles Osgood, John W. Stedman, John F. Slater, William M. Converse and John T. Wait, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, be and they hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Killingly Railroad Company, and by that name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court in this state, to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew at pleasure. And the said company is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct and finally complete a single, double or treble railroad or way from a point on the Norwich and Worcester Railroad line, at or near the depot at Daysville, in the town of Killingly, Windham county, by the shortest, most feasible and best route, to a point in said town of Killingly, on the boundary line between the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, at or near the intended terminus of the "Woonsocket Union Railroad," in said state of Rhode Island; and to connect said railroad with said Norwich and Worcester railroad, at or near the said depot at Daysville, and with said Woonsocket railroad, (when built,) at said state line; and to transport, take and carry property and persons upon said railroad or way, by the power and force of steam, of animals, or of any mechanical or other power, or any combination of them, which said company may choose to apply. And the said company is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, conferred and granted by an act of the legisla ture of this state, passed at the May session, A. D. 1849, entitled "An act relating to Railroad Companies," and the several acts in addition thereto, passed at the May session, A. D. 1850, and is made subject to all the duties, conditions, restrictions and requirements imposed by said several acts. And the said company may at any time before the completion of said road, alter and change any part of the location, or discontinue such part thereof, as, in their opinion, convenience or necessity may require to be changed or discontinued, subject to the approval of the commissioners on said road, the other requirements of this charter, and the provisions of the act of 1849, relating to railroad companies.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

SEC. 3. That the persons named on the first section hereof, or a majority of them, shall open books to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, at such time and place as they, or a majority of them, may appoint, and shall give such notice of times and places of opening said books as they may deem reasonable, and shall receive such subscriptions, under such regulations as they may adopt for the purpose; and in case the subscription shall exceed twelve hundred shares, the same shall

be reduced and apportioned in such manner as may deemed most beneficial to the corporation.

SEC. 4. That the persons named in the first section hereof, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized, after the books of subscription to the capital stock of said company are closed, to call the first meeting of the stockholders of said company, in such way and at such time and place as they may appoint, for the choice of directors of said company, and in all meetings of the stockholders of said company, each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote, which vote may be given by said stockholder in person or by lawful proxy.

SEC. 5. That in case it shall so happen that an election of directors shall not be made on any day appointed by the by-laws of said company, such company shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but such election may be held on any day which shall be appointed by the directors of said company.

SEC. 6. That when the lands or other property or estate of any femecovert, infant, or non compos mentis, shall be necessary for the construction of said railroad, said lands, property or estate may be taken, notice being given to the husband of such feme-covert, and the guardian of such infant or non compos mentis, and they may respectively release all damages for any land, property or estate taken and appropriated as aforesaid, as they might do if the same were holden in their own right respectively.

SEC. 7. That said railroad company may, in the construction of their said road, if necessary, cross, intersect or connect with any other railroad, and may construct their said road across or upon the same. Provided, however, that in so constructing their said road across or upon any other railroad, or in connecting therewith, they shall not change or in anywise alter either the grade or the line of the same; nor in any way enter upon, use or cross such railroad, without first paying to said railroad company such portion of the expense of constructing so much of said road as shall be required by said Killingly Railroad Company, and also such damages as said railroad company may sustain, by reason of such construction or connection as aforesaid; to be ascertained in all respects in the same manner as is proposed by the tenth section of said act, passed at the May session, A. D. 1849, entitled "An act relating to Railroad Companies." Provided, that in no case shall said company be allowed to contract with the land owners for the erection or support of the fences upon the line of said road. And further provided, that if any other railroad shall hereafter be constructed, meeting the said Killingly railroad at or near its western terminus, the said Killingly Railroad Company shall connect with such other railroad, and shall receive and transport on their road, from such other railroad, all freight and passengers coming therefrom or going thereon, at rates of freight or passage not exceeding the rate per mile charged on such other railroad so connecting as aforesaid. And it shall be the duty of the commissioners on the two roads, in joint meeting, at the request of the directors of either of said roads, in case such directors cannot agree, to prescribe such regulations respecting the running or connection of freight and passenger trains on the said roads, as shall be just and reasonable, and shall contribute to the convenience of the travel and business passing over both roads.

SEC. 8. That if said company shall not expend the sum of fifty thousand dollars upon said railroad or way, within two years from the rising of this assembly, or if they shall not construct and complete, and put in operation a single, double or treble railroad or way, as herein before authorized, within four years after the passage of this act, then the rights, privileges, and powers of said corporation shall be null and void.

SEC. 9. That the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company be and they hereby are authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of said Killingly Railroad Company, to such an amount as the stockholders of said Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company shall direct, at a meeting called for that purpose.

SEC. 10. That this act may be altered, amended or repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly.

EXTENDING TIME FOR ORGANIZATION OF THE MANCHESTER RAILROAD

COMPANY.*

PASSED 1839.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That the "Manchester Railroad Company" shall be allowed the further time of four years from and after the rising of this assembly, within which to organize the said corporation, and file with the secretary of state, the location of the route of said road.

INCORPORATING THE MERIDEN RAILROAD COMPANY.

PASSED 1852.

Resolved by this Assembly, SEc. 1. That Charles Parker, Walter Booth, Linus Birdsey, Edwin E. Curtiss, Stephen Atkins, Benjamin Twiss, Eli Ives, Charles Pomeroy, Joel H. Guy and Dexter R. Wright, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, are constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Meriden Railroad Company; and by that name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court in this state, to make and have a common seal and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure; and the company is hereby vested with all powers, privileges and immunities which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this act, as herein after set forth. And said company is herein and hereby authorized and empowered to locate, construct and finally complete a single, *See Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad Company.