Issue bonds. Arrange with other roads. Consolidate. SEC. 21. The company are hereby authorized to issue bonds upon their road, or hold and sell the same in such amounts, upon such terms, above or below par, and at such rates of interest as may be determined, which shall be binding upon the parties interested. SEC. 22. This company shall have the power to make such contracts and agreements with other railroads which may connect with, or intersect the same, as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties, and shall be empowered to consolidate their property stock, with each other; said articles of consolidation to be filed in the office of the secretary of this territory. SEC. 23. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Corporators. CHAPTER CCXLIV. AN ACT to incorporate the Western Railroad Company. SECTION 1. That John J. Sanders, Charles Morse, John Russell, Isaac Sanders, David Grimes, W. A. Ela, Jno. M. Espy, Alva Townsend, H. Brownson, J. C. Lamdlin, P. G. D. Morton Perry Woodruff, and Wm. Tulk, with such others as may associate themselves with them, for that purpose, are hereby incorporated a body politic and corporate, by the name and Corporate name style of the "Western Railroad Company," and shall, under that name and style, be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, in law and equity, in any and all courts and places, may adopt and use a common seal, and alter or renew the same, be capable of contracting and being contracted with, and are hereby invested with all the powers and privileges, immunities and and powers. franchises, and of acquiring, by purchase or otherwise, and of holding and conveying real and personal estate, which may be needed to carry into effect fully the purposes of this act. SEC. 2. The said company is hereby authorized and em- Locate where. powered to survey, locate, construct, complete, alter, maintain and operate a railroad, with one or more tracks, to connect with the Jefferson City and Neosha Valley Railroad, at Hampden, thence southwesterly by the way of Chelsea to the southern boundary of the territory of Kansas. apply. SEC. 3. That all the powers, privileges, rights and provis- What charter to ions of an act passed at the meeting of the legislative assembly at its session in the year 1858, entitled "An act to incorporate the Topeka and Emporia Railroad Company," and approved Feb. 12th, 1858, be and the same are hereby conferred upon the said railroad company, and the said railroad company is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed under the provisions of said charter as fully and absolutely as if the same, in the same act, had been specially applied to the said Western Railroad Company. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. CHAPTER CCXLV. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Wyandott and Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the their road. SECTION 1. That the Wyandott and Osawattomie Railroad May extend Company are hereby empowered and authorized to extend their railroad from Wyandott via Paola and Osawattomie to a point on the southern line of the territory of Kansas, and to that end shall have and exercise all the corporate powers and privileges conferred upon said company by the act to which this is an amendment. SEC. 2. That the present board of directors are hereby Permanent loauthorized to fix and locate the permanent track of said road cation. from Wyandott to Paola and Osawattomie; and that the act of said directors, in so locating the same, shall be regarded and esteemed as a vested right, not to be disturbed, altered or modified by the action of any subsequent board. SEC. 3. This act [to] take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF, Approved February 25, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Time extended 10 build bridge. Exclusive right. RELIEF ACTS. CHAPTER CCXLVI. AN AOT for the relief of Ashel Beach and others. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. That the time allowed Ashel Beach and others to build a bridge across Cow Creek, on the Santa Fe road, be extended one year from and after the passage of this act. SEC. 2. That no other person or persons shall build or erect a bridge within five miles of the site where the said Beach and others are building their bridge on said Cow Creek. This act to take effect from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. CHAPTER CCXLVII. AN ACT for the relief of Jane G. Burdett. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the annulled SECTION 1. That Jane G. Burdett is hereby released from Court decree all restrictions imposed upon her by the statutes, by virtue of a divorce granted to her husband, AJ K. Burdett, by the District Court sitting in Douglas county, Kansas Territory at the spring term, A. D. 1859. Maiden name. SEC. 2. That Jane G] Burdett is hereby restored to her maiden name, (Jane G. Phillips) and to all her former rights. SEC. 3. That she shall have all the control of her daugh- Control of her ter Almira Augusta, as though she had been awarded to her by the court. This act to be in force from and after its passage. daughter. CHAPTER CCXLVIII. A BILL for the relief of the Hampden Town Association. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of assessments. SECTION 1. That any interest holder in the Hampden Town Association who is or may be in arrears for any assessment to defray any expenses that has or may accrue, said interest or niterests may be sold at auction to pay said assessment or as May sell for sessments, and should said interest or interests sell for more than sufficient to pay said assessments together with costs of advertising and selling such interests, as the rules of said association provides for the balance, if the holder is an absentee, shall be deposited to his order in the treasury at Coffey county. SEC. 2. That a publication in a public newspaper nearest Notice. to said town of Hampden thirty days previous to the day of sale, shall be sufficient notice of the sale of said interest or interests. SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and Relieved from bond. CHAPTER CCXLIX. AN ACT for the relief of Frank H. Page and John Varian. SECTION 1. That the recognizance of Frank H. Page and John Varian in two several cases, one of grand and the other of petit larceny, in the District Court for Leavenworth county, against Henry Van Allen McCrea, for the appearance of the said Henry Van Allen McCrea to answer said charges, be, and the same are hereby remitted, and forever discharged upon the payment of the costs in said cases. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF, AN ACT to incorporate the Atchison and Denver City Telegraph Company Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas: SECTION 1. That S. Rankin, R. Sopris, William J. King, A. M. Clark, W. G. Mathias, Sam. F. Tappan, W. A. Rankin, S. N. Wood, A. Bartlette and W. R. Wagstaff, and their as. |