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OF THE
TERRITORY OF KANSAS,
PASSED AT THE FIFTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY;
BEGUN AT THE
CITY OF LECOMPTON,
ON THE 1ST MONDAY OF JAN'Y, 1859, AND HELD AND CONCLUDED
AT THE
CITY OF LAWRENCE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
LAWRENCE, K. T.:
HERALD OF FREEDOM STEAM PRESS.
1859.
L12059
SEP 28 1930
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
ASSOCIATIONS.
CHAPTER 1. AN ACT providing a Charter for the Home Association, in Home Town-
ship, Nemaha county, Kansas Territory.....
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to authorize Wm. T. Williamson and others to build a Bridge
across the Little Arkansas River......
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15
16
to establish a Toll Bridge across Big Blue River
to establish the Cherry Creek Bridge and Ferry Company.... 17
to authorize Asahel Beach and others to construct a Bridge
across Cow Creek, on the Santa Fe Road, near Beach's
Trading Post....
to incorporate the De Soto Bridge Company..
to incorporate the Humboldt Bridge Company..
to authorize Joseph B. Beatty to build a Bridge across Indepen-
dence Creek, in the Territory of Kansas..
for the relief of the Kansas River Bridge Company.
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to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Lawrence
Bridge Company "................
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to incorporate the Lecompton Bridge Company
to incorporate the Osawatomie Bridge Company
to incorporate the Osage River Bridge Company.......
authorizing Alvin N. Blacklidge and others to build a Bridge
[across the Pawnee Fork of the Arkansas River]..........
to incorporate the Rock Creek Bridge Company....
to charter a Bridge across Soldier Creek, at Indianola
to incorporate the Stranger River Bridge Company.
to authorize a Bridge across the Wakarusa..
to incorporate the Wild Cat Bridge Company..
to incorporate Grace Church, in the City of Atchison......
to incorporate the First United Presbyterian Congregation of
Leavenworth City.......
to incorporate St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church at Wy-
andott, Kansas....
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24.
CEMETERIES.
CHAP. 25. AN ACT to incorporate the Americus Cemetery Association.
to incorporate the Spring Hill Cemetery Association.
incorporating the Topeka Cemetery Association.
DIVORCES.
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granting a Divorce to Charlotte M. Cummings........
Divorcing Frances G. Coburn and Edward O. Coburn....
Divorcing H. L. Holden and Josephine E. Holden..................
Divorcing Lorenzo Hoyt and Sarah E. Hoyt...
Divorcing Horace E. Swan and Harriet J. Swan...
Divorcing Alvin Winants and Maria P. Winants.
Divorcing Wm. Whitehead from his wife Rhoda J. Whitehead 45
Divorcing Charles A. Wright and Maria Anne Wright; also,
Horatio F. Bardwell and Susan D. Bardwell....
EXPRESS COMPANY.
to incorporate the Pike's Peak Express Company....
45
46
GAS COMPANY.
to incorporate the Atchison Fire and Marine Insurance Comp. 48
to incorporate the Leavenworth Fire and Marine Insurance "
49
to incorporate the Leavenworth Literary Association.....
to incorporate the Scientific and Historical Society of Kansas. 51
to incorporate the Wyandott Mercantile Library and Literary
Association
50
52
incorporating the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of Kansas and Subordinate Lodges..
incorporating the Topeka Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons
NAME CHANGED.
53
55
to change the name of Robert Peet to Robert B. Wilson...... 55
RAILROADS.
to amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Atchison
and Fort Riley Railroad Company "..............
incorporating the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company... 57
to incorporate the Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad"
to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Kansas
Central Railroad Company," approved February 12, 1858, 63
to incorporate the Lawrence and Fort Union Railroad Comp'y 63
to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Missouri
River and Rocky Mountain Railroad Company "......... 68
to incorporate the Wyandott and Osawatomie Railroad Comp. 69
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54. AN ACT to incorporate the New England Society of Kansas.......
55.
to incorporate the Society of the Sons of Truth...
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73
to incorporate the Burlingame Seminary and Female Collegiate
Institute
to incorporate the Tecumseh Female Seminary ...........
STAGE COMPANY.
to incorporate the Kansas and Missouri River Stage Company 77
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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77
to incorporate the Kansas Central Telegraph Company....
UNIVERSITIES.
for the establishment of a University at Lawrence, in the
county of Douglas, Kansas Territory..
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supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act for the establishment
of a University at Lawrence, in the county of Douglas,
Kansas Territory "..
to incorporate the Morris University, at Doniphan................
to incorporate the Missouri Valley University at Wyandott... 89
to incorporate the Kansas Wesleyan University........
87
91
to incorporate the Smoky Hill and Arkansas River Water
Power Company....
FERRIES.
to charter a Ferry across the Arkansas river, at or near the
mouth of the Fontaine Que Bouille, in Arappahoe county,
in the Territory of Kansas....
to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Ferry at the
town of Atchison, in the Territory of Kansas,”
to establish a Ferry at Bellemont, on the Missouri river
to grant to Zach Curtiss a privilege to establish a Ferry across
the Big Blue river, at Unadilla...
establishing a Ferry across the Big Blue river.............
to establish and charter a Ferry at the city of Elwood, and for
revising and repealing all former charters and parts of
charters relating to such Ferry... ...... .............
... 101
to establish a Ferry at the town of Humboldt, in Allen county 103
to incorporate the Iowa Point Steam Ferry Boat Company.... 104
to charter a Ferry across the Kansas river................
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to entitle Nehemiah Sage to establish a Ferry across the Kan-
sas river......
to charter a Ferry across the Marias des Cygnes......
to authorize Josiah Bundy to establish and maintain a Ferry
across the Marias des Cygnes river, at a point near Stan-
ton, in Lykins county, known as "Bundy's Ford,”................. 109
to establish a Ferry across the Marias des Cygnes, at or near
the Ottawa Ford......