PEOPLE'S PACIFIC RAILROAD.

State of Maine.

In the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty.

AN ACT

To incorporate the People's Pacific Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECTION 1. J. W. Porter, J. R. Bachelder, E. Wells, Jabez True, John Benson, Joshua Dunn, Seth Parlin, James A. Bicknell, Wyman B. S. Moor, Reuben B. Dunn, John Dorr, F. Stevens, John S. Abbott, Algernon S. Washburn, Thomas M. Andrews, George D. Stanley, Edward A. Nason, Edward Fenno, Jeremiah Fenno, Ebenezer G. Brown, Amos Stickney, Solyman Heath, Joseph Burton, Joseph J. Eveleth, Francis Davis, John W. Chase, William J. Kilburn, A. D. Brown, Ezekiel Holmes, John W. Veazie, Joseph Piper, Benjamin F. Barton, James L. Child, Sylvanus Caldwell, Jr.,

George W. Richer, Benjamin F. Morse, Stephen Patten, John Osgood, George S. Carpenter, Daniel C. Stanwood, Francis Chase, Stephen Deering, Enoch Libbey, Josiah Perham, I. S. Worthington, J. M. Becket, H. Williams, David Wilder, Jr., E. W. Ridgway, Alexander Holmes, E. B. Phillips, A Firth, J. E. Perley, Benjamin French, George W. McLellan, George L. Bean, George S. Bullans, Abiel Abbott, Wm. H. Spooner, E. D. Amidown, Alexander De Witt, Daniel Chamberlain, Isaac Emery, E. R. Page, George O. Hovey, Samuel R. Payson, Jabez C. Howe, H. R. Horton, Edmund F. Cutler, W. W. Clapp, Jr., Daniel N. Haskell, Joseph B. Morse, Benjamin F. Archer, John Toy, Jeremiah N. Sewall, John Huggins, T. M. Allyn, Moses W. Wilson, Horace Whittaker, Eliphalet Trask, Austin L. Rogers, Franklin Ames, William J. Eames, John O. Presbrey, Albert Cushman, Alvin Adams, Paul W. Paige, Oliver Frost, John Branning, Nathan Potter, Jr., A. W. Banfield, John P. Bigelow, E. R. Sawin, A. M. Bigelow, Eugene L. Norton, Carver Hotchkiss, J. B. F. Osgood, Wm. Upham, J. W. Atwood, Samuel C. Upham, Daniel S. Cobb, H. G. Knight, Joseph A. Gilmore, Perkins Gale, Seth Fuller, Nehemiah Abbott, Charles M. Morse James A. Dix, A. B. Hardy, Charles G. Came, and such other persons as shall or may be associated with them, they and their successors, associates and assigns, are created and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the People's Pacific Railroad Company, by which name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court in this State, or elsewhere, and may make and have a common seal, and the same may break or alter, or renew at pleasure; and said corporation, with the consent of the United States through its territories, and the several states through which said railroad or any part thereof shall be constructed, is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain and enjoy a continuous railroad, with one or more tracks, and all necessary depots, turnouts, stations and appurtenances for the proper, effectual, convenient and profitable use thereof, from a point on the Missouri River, between the mouth of Platte River on the north, and the Kansas River on the south, and

on such a route from Missouri River, through Utah, to the city of San Francisco on the Pacific coast, and as near as practicable to the present travelled mail route, or by such route as the said corporation shall deem expedient and for the public interest; and said company, with the consent of the United States, through its territories, and of any states in which any part thereof may be located, is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain and enjoy such extensions and branches of said road, with one or more tracks, and all necessary depots, turnouts, stations and appurtenances, for the proper, effectual, convenient and profitable use thereof, as said company may deem expedient and for the public interest; and said company is hereby vested with all powers, privileges and immunities which are or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and object of this Act, as herein set forth.

SET. 2. The said company is authorized to accept to its own use any grant, donation, loan, power, franchise, aid or assistance, which may be granted to, or conferred upon said company by the Congress of the United States, by the Legislature of any State, or by any corporation, person or persons; and said corporation is authorized to hold and enjoy any such grant, donation, loan, power, franchise, aid or assistance, to its own use for the purpose aforesaid.

SECT. 3. The corporation hereby created is authorized and empowered to purchase, receive, enter upon, and hold such lands, streams of water, and real estate, and such right and interest therein as may be necessary or convenient in carrying into effect the objects of the corporation; but all the lands, streams, and real estate, or other right or interest therein which are not donations to said company, shall be purchased of the owner or owners thereof, or acquired in compliance with the laws of the State or territory in which said lands, streams or real estate may be located.

SECT. 4. The said corporation shall, on or before the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, construct, complete, and furnish the said road to San Francisco, for the convenient transportation of passengers and freight throughout the entire length thereof.