Of government. Powers of stock. holders. May invest in other stocks. this act. SEC. 3. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, to be subscribed and paid for in such manner and proportion as shall be prescribed by the by-laws and rules of said company. SEC. 4. The stockholders of said company shall have power to make [such] by-laws and rules for regulating the affairs of said company as they may think proper and necessary respecting the management and disposition of the stock, property and estate of said company, the duties of officers, artificers and agents to be employed; the number and election of directors, and all such matters as appertain to the concerns of said company. SEC. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the objects contemplated by this act, the said company may, in their discretion, invest in such public or private stocks, or in the purchase of real estate whatever surplus capital, funds or net profits, which may from time to time accumulate in the hands of said company, or in such other manner as to the stockholders thereof will appear best calculated to promote the interests of the company. SEC. 6. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the said company to lay pipes, to erect works, and construct Construction of apparatus for manufacturing and conducting gas, without first obtaining a license to use the streets and other public grounds for such purposes from the city government of the city of Lawrence. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF, Approved February 27th, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. CHAPTER CLXXIII. AN ACT amending an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Leavenworth Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas: SECTION 1. That section two of an act entitled "An act to Amended. incorporate the Leavenworth City Gas Company," approved February 11th, 1859, be and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: The said company shall have sole power and authority to manufacture and sell gas, to be made from any and all the substances and combinations thereof, from which inflammable Amendment. gas is obtained, and to be used for the purpose of lighting the city of Leavenworth, or the streets thereof, and any buildings, manufactories, public places or houses therein contained, and for any other purpose or purposes for which gas can be used; Lay pipes. and to erect all necessary buildings, works and apparatus, and to lay pipes for the purpose of conducting the gas through any of the streets, lanes, alleys, highways, avenues and pub- shall not lic grounds of the said city, and the several additions already struct made or hereafter to be made to the said city: Provided, that the said company shall not unnecessarily obstruct any such streets, lanes, alleys, highways, avenues and public grounds. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. ob CHAPTER CLXXIV. AN ACT to incoporate the Topeka City Gas Company. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Corporate name SECTION 1. That John Jackson, John Fletcher, Asaph Allen, Silas Hunter, S. P. Thompson, G. G. Gage, and such and powers. Ho d and coa vey land. Make and sell gas. Lay pipes. Offenses. Punishment. Of stocks. other persons as they may hereafter associate with them, shall be and the same are hereby created, constituted and made a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Topeka Gas Company, and by that name and style they and their successors and assigns shall have perpetual succession, and shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of a body politic and corporate, such as contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, pleading and being im pleaded, defending and being defended, answering and being answered in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever with full powers to acquire, hold, occupy, enjoy, dispose and convey, all such real and personal estate as may in their judgment be necessary for the prosecution of their business, and they and their successors may have a common seal, and may make and alter the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. The said company shall have full power and au thority to manufacture and sell gas to be made from any and all the substances and combinations thereof from which inflammable gas is obtained, and to be used for the purpose of lighting the city of Topeka or the streets thereof, and any buildings, manufactories, public places or houses therein contained, and for any other purpose or purposes for which gas can be used, and to erect all necessary buildings, works and apparatus, and to lay pipes for the purpose of conducting the gas through any of the streets, lanes, alleys, highways and avenues of the said city, and the several additions already made, or hereafter to be made, to the said city. SEC. 3. That if any person or persons shall wilfully do or cause to be done, any act or acts whatever whereby any building or buildings, works or other property of the said company, or any engine, machine, apparatus, or other structure, or matter or thing appertaining to the same, shall be stopped, obstructed, impaired, or injured or destroyed, the person or persons so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and also shall forfeit and pay to the said company double the amount of damages sustained by means of such offense or injury, to be recovered in the name of said company with costs of suit in any court having jurisdiction of the same. SEC. 4. The capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with privilege of increasing it to such an amount as the said company may in their judgment deem proper to carry on their business, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, to be subscribed and paid for in such manner and proportion as shall be prescribed by the by-laws and rules of said company. SEC. 5 The stockholders shall have full power to make such by-laws and rules for the regulations of the affairs of the said company as they shall deem necessary respecting the management and disposition of the stocks, profits, property and estate of said company, the duties of the officers, artificers and agents to be employed, the number and election of directors, and all such matters as may pertain to the concerns of said company. SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Of government. INSURANCE COMPANIES. CHAPTER CLXXV. AN ACT to incorporate the Atchison Fire, Marine and Life Insurance Com. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. That all persons that do become stockholders Corporate name in the capital stock hereinafter mentioned, their successors and assigns shall be, and are hereby constituted and made a body corporate, by the name and style of the "Atchison Fire, Marine and Life Insurance Company." The office of said company shall be in the city of Atchison, in this Territory. SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said company shall not of stock. exceed five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and there shall be paid into the treasury of said company, by each subscriber to the capital [stock] at the time of subscription, an installment of five Five per cent. per cent. on the stock by him subscribed, the remainder to be paid, or secured to be paid, on real estate or other security, as installment. Of directors and other officers. Of officers. First directors. the directors, hereinafter mentioned, shall deem sufficient; and until two hundred and fifty shares of said stock is subscribed for and paid, or secured to be paid, as aforesaid, said company shall not commence business. SEC. 3. That the stock, property and affairs of said company shall be managed and conducted by not less than eight directors, and such officers, clerks and agents and other persons as said directors may appoint from time to time; and the directors shall divide themselves into four classes. The term of the first class shall expire the first Monday in February, in the following year, or as soon thereafter as others are elected in their stead. The first directors shall hold their office for at least one year after the company commence doing business. The annual election of directors shall be held on the first Monday of March, at such place in the city of Atchison as the directors may appoint; and the polls of such election shall be open from 10 [A. M.] until 4 o'clock, P. M., of said day, of which notice shall be given in some newspaper published in the city of Atchison, at least two weeks previous to said election. Said election shall be held under the direction of three stockholders, to be appointed by the directors, and said directors shall be elected by a plurality of votes of the stockholders present at said election, and their proxies, allowing one vote for every share of stock. SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of said directors, on organizing, and annually thereafter, to choose from their number a president, and they may elect a vice president and secretary. The vice president's duty shall be to perform all the duties of the president, in case of his absence or inability. SEC. 5. That John M. Price, M. R. Benton, F. G. Adams, A. G. Otis, Charles Holbert, H. L. Davis, E. B. Grimes, Thos. Murphy, B. C. Wright, S. T. Walters and N. J. Irland, shall be the first directors of said company, and are hereby constituted commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company; and when said stock shall be subscribed and paid, or secured to be paid, as is mentioned in the second section of this act, the said commissioners shall call a Call a meeting. meeting of the stockholders, by personal or written notice, stating the time and place at which said meeting shall be held. At the time and place so specified the stockholders and their proxies shall, by resolution, determine the number of directors of said company, which may be any number not less than |