SPECIAL LAWS OF MINNESOTA. PASSED AND APPROVED AT THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE COMMENCING JANUARY FIFTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR, AND TERMINATING MARCH FOURTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR. CHAPTER I. An Act to facilitate the construction of the Southern Minnesota Railroad, and to amend and continue certain acts in relation thereto. CHAPTER I. SECTION 1. In whom the rights, benefits and interests of said road vested. 2. Who to constitute a Board of Directors-elections for Directors to be held annually -vacancies how filled. 3. Who may call first meeting of the Board. 4. When company to acquire a title to right of way, etc.-privileges of said corporation -duty of the Governor on completion of every consecutive twenty miles of railroad. 5. When exempt from assessment and taxation-installments when and how paid-penalty for perjury. 6. When bonds to be cancelled. 7. Rights, privileges, etc., upon what condition to be assigned to said company proviso. 8. Regulations for transportation of passengers and freight. 9. May construct telegraph lines. 10. All additional aid granted by Congress shall become vested in said company. 11. Said company may issue stocks on any part of said railroad or branches. 12. May consolidate the whole or any part of its line of road, or branches. 13. Repeal of former act. 14.Shall construct cattle guards and fences. 15. Repeal of acts inconsistent with this chapter. 16. When this chapter to take effect. Rights, benefits, property, etc., in whom vested CHAPTER II. SECTION 1. In whom the rights, benefits and interest of said road vested-who may call first meeting of the Board of Directors-who to constitute a Board of Directors. 2. When company to acquire right of way, etc.-privileges of said corporation-duty of the Governor on completion of every consecutive twenty miles of said road-shall construct cattle guards and fences. 3. When exempt from assessment and taxation-installments when and how paid-peualty for perjury. 4. When bonds to be cancelled. 5. Rights, privileges, etc., upon what condition to be assigned. 6. Regulations for transportation of passengers and freight. 7. May construct telegraph line. All additional aid granted by Congress shall become vested in said Company. 9. Said company may issue stock-in what sum. 10. Repeal of acts inconsistent with this chapter. 11. When act to take effect. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : CHAPTER I. SECTION. 1. That all the rights, benefits, privileges, property, franchises and interests of the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, acquired by the State of Minnesota, by virtue of any acts, deeds, sale, foreclosure, agreement or thing by the said company hereinbefore done or suffered, or by reason of any forfeiture or by virtue of any law of the State, or any foreclosure by the Governor of the State, acting for and in behalf of the State, or by reason of a sale of the same, or any part thereof, by the Governor of the State of Minnesota, and bid in and purchased by the Governor of the State of Minnesota, for the benefit of the State of Minnesota, pertaining to the line of road from La Crescent up the Root River Valley to a point of junction with the Transit (now Winona and St. Peter,) at Rochester, and also pertaining to the line of road and branches prescribed in an act entitled an act to incorporate the Root River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, approved March 2, A. D. 1855, and in the several acts amendatory thereof. Provided, That the branch mentioned in said act, running through the southern tier of counties shall commence at or east of range ten; and all the lands, interests, rights, powers and privileges, granted to, and conferred upon the Territory of Minnesota, in and by virtue of an act of Congress, approved March 3, A. D. 1857, entitled "An act making a grant of lands to 66 Rights, benefits, the Territory of Minnesota, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroad in said Territory, and granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Alabama, to aid in the construction of a certain railroad in said State," applicable to the said road, or line of the said Southern Minnesota Railroad hereinbefore specified, are hereby disposed of and conferred to and upon the said Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, subject to the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid, be and the same are hereby held in trust, to be continued, granted and transferred for the purpose, and on the terms and conditions hereinafter in this act provided, free and clear of all claims and liens thereon, and free from all liens and claims of the State of Minnesota against the same, except such as are retained by the provisions of this act; and all the rights, privileges, franchises, lands, property, an inte- property, etc., in rest granted by the Territory of Minnesota to the Root whom vested River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, or Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, by the several acts of the Legislature of said Territory, the one entitled an act to incorporate the Root River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad Company," approved March 2, A. D. 1855, and of the several acts amendatory thereof, and an act entitled "an act to execute the trust created by the act of Congress, entitled an act making a grant of land to the Territory of Minnesota, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said Territory, and granting public lands in alternate sections to the State of Alabama, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State, and granting certain lands to railroad companies therein named,'" approved May 22, A. d. 1857, pertaining to the line of road from La Crescent up the Root River Valley, to a point of junction with the Transit (now Winona and St. Peter,) at Rochester, and pertaining to the line of roads and branches prescribed in said act of incorporation of the Root River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, approved March 2d, A. D. 1855, and the several acts amendatory thereof, are hereby granted and transferred to T. B. Stoddard, C. D. Sherwood, Luke Miller, Daniel Cameron, Clark W. Thompson, William D. Hurlbert, |