Railroad Communication 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, Its Resources and Business Prospects, with the Foundation and Advantages of Its First Mortgage Bonds. New York, February, 1868

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Brown & Hewitt, printers, 1868 - 32 halaman
 

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Halaman 14 - An act [to amend an act entitled 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.
Halaman 28 - ... 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...
Halaman 14 - An Act to aid in carrying out the provisions of the Pacific railroad and telegraph act of Congress...
Halaman 15 - ... 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 belonging to this State, and on, over, and along any streets, roads. highways, rivers, streams, water, and...
Halaman 15 - 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 with the provision of this Act, or the rights and privileges herein granted.
Halaman 10 - ... provided, 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 ; and between the sections last named 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...
Halaman 15 - 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...
Halaman 15 - Acts supplementary and amendatory thereof; said Company to be subject to all the laws of this 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...
Halaman 14 - California by such route as the company shall determine to be the most practicable, and to file new and amendatory articles of association ; 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...
Halaman 14 - Territory, westward, according to the best and most practicable route, and without reference to the initial point on the one hundredth meridian of west longitude, as now provided by law, in a continuous completed line, until they shall meet and connect with the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California; and the...

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