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en said road to subscribe for such portions of the stock of said company as they may deem proper, and upon such terms as they may agree with the company. When any county shall have subscribed for any portion of the stock, the Justices of the County Court may issue the notes of the county for such subscription, which shall be signed by all the Justices, and attested by the Clerk, and shall be payable at such times and places as may be agreed upon; Provided, Said notes shall not in any event bear a greater rate of interest than seven per cent. per annum. All proceedings in relation thereto shall be entered on the records of the court.

§ 17. When any stock shall have been subscribed for by the county, the Justices shall have a right to vote on behalf of the county at any election, and they may at any time require of the Directors information concerning the affairs of the company.

§ 18. At every annual election, the Directors shall lay before the stockholders present, an exhibit of the affairs and condition of the company. Any number of the stockholders owning one-fifth of the stock subscribed, may call a meeting of the stockholders by giving at least two weeks' notice in two or more newspapers printed in the State, specifying the object of the call; and if a majority of the stockholders are present or represented, they may make such order, touching the concerns of the company, as a majority may determine; Provided, That said majority of stockholders must also embrace a majority of the shares subscribed.

§ 19. This State and the United States shall have the right, in time of war, to use said road for the transportation of troops, or munitions of war, ni preference to all other persons.

§ 20. When said road is located, the company shall cause a plat thereof to be made out and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the Legislature may at any time require a statement from the company, as to the progress of the work, the amount of business and the receipts thereon.

§ 21. Any person interested may at any time when he believes that this charter has been violated, make complaint, under oath, to any Circuit Court in which any part of said road lies, and thereupon said court may issue a scire facias, specifying particularly the violations complained of; and if, upon the trial thereof, by a jury or otherwise, said charter shall be found to have been violated, the court may appoint Trustees to take charge of the affairs of said company, and the charter privileges shall from that time cease.

§ 22. If said road, after its completion, shall be suffered to go into decay, or be impassable for the space of one year, unless when the same is repairing, this charter shall be taken and considered as forfeited.

§ 23. The company shall cause to be kept a fair record of the whole expense of making and repairing of said road, or any part thereof, with all incidental expenses, and also a fair account of the receipts from said road, and the State shall have the right, after the end of forty years, to purchase the stock in said road, by paying to the said company so much therefor as it shall be valued at by persons to be mutually chosen on the part of the State and the company. The books of said company shall, at all times, be open for the inspection of any agent of the State appointed by the General Assembly to inspect the same; Provided, also, That the State shall give at least four years' notice to the company of her intention to purchase, prior to the time fixed for making the purchase.

§ 24. Whenever the aforesaid amount of one thousand shares are sub

scribed, all the powers, privileges, rights, immunities and benefits conferred, or intended to be conferred by this charter, shall be invested in the holders of said shares; and whenever any other portion of the capital stock is subscribed for, the same shall be vested in all subsequent subscribers. Every person who shall cease to be a shareholder, shall cease to be a member of said company; and the stock of said company shall be exempt from all State and county taxes.

§ 25. If any person shall willfully and knowingly injure or obstruct said road, or any part thereof, or shall break, destroy or deface any work, edifice, device, toll house, warehouse or other thing belonging to said company, such person so offending shall upon conviction be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by fine not less than fifty dollars, or confinement in the State prison not less than six months, in the discretion of the jury; and if life be lost by such willful obstruction or hindrance, then such offending person shall be deemed guilty of murder, and be punished accordingly; such offending person shall also be liable to pay the company double damages for all injuries sustained by reason thereof."

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved January 25, 1837.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company," approved March 3d, 1851.

1. To what extent the stockholders liable. §
2. County Courts of counties subscribing
for stock authorized to issue bonds
for the payment of such stock.

3. Board of Directors authorized to elect
a Vice President.

4. To what number of votes owners of stock entitled.

5. All machinery belonging to said company considered part of the capital stock.

6. Company authorized to borrow money.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

But

§ 1. The St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company is hereby exempted from the provisions of the first article of the act, entitled "An act concerning Corporations," approved March 19, 1845, except so far as said provisions may be contained in the act incorporating said company. each stockholder shall be liable to the creditors of said company to the amount that may remain unpaid, upon any stock subscribed or held by such stockholder, at the time he or they are summoned as garnishees; and such liability shall continue until the whole amount due on any stock shall be paid up.

§ 2. The County Court of any county that has or may hereafter subscribe to the capital stock of said company, may issue the bonds of said county in payment of such subscription; said bonds to be signed by the

presiding Justice, and attested by the Clerk, under the seal of said county; they shall have coupons attached for the semi-annual payment of interest, signed by the Clerk of the county; and the bonds so issued shall be in lieu of the notes provided for in the sixteenth section of the act revived and made part of the act to which this is amendatory; but no bond shall be issued having more than twenty years to run.

§3. The Board of Directors of said company may elect a Vice President, who, in the absence of the President, shall fill his place, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the said company; and a President pro tempore shall only be appointed in the absence of the President and Vice President.

§ 4. At all general meetings or elections by the stockholders, each share of stock under the number of six hundred shall entitle the holder to one vote; each stockholder holding over six hundred shares shall have one vote for every three shares over six hundred, and not exceeding one thousand; and one vote for every five shares exceeding one thousand, and not exceeding fifteen hundred; and one vote for every ten shares exceeding fifteen hundred; and each ballot shall have endorsed thereon the number of shares thereby represented.

§ 5. All the engines, cars, wagons, machines and other property belonging to said company, shall be deemed a part of the capital stock of said company, and shall be vested in the respective shareholders of the company forever, according to their respective shares, and transferable by them in the transfer of stock, as personal property; but no transfer of stock shall be made without the consent of said company until the whole amount due upon such stock shall be fully paid up.

§ 6. Said company shall have power from time to time to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary, (subject to the prior lien of the State, if any State bonds are loaned said company,) for the completion or extension of their railroad, and to issue and dispose of their bonds for any amount so borrowed, and to mortgage if necessary their corporate property or franchise, or any part thereof, to secure the payment of any debt contracted by the company for the purposes aforesaid, and if deemed expedient may confer upon the holders of any bonds issued as aforesaid, the right to convert the amount of said bonds into stock of said company, at any time not exceeding ten years from the date of the bond, under such regulations as the Board of Directors may see fit to adopt; and any city or county that shall issue bonds in payment for stock subscribed to said company, is hereby authorized to make like provision for the transfer of the stock held by them to the bondholders; Provided, The proper authorities of such city or county shall deem such provisions expedient.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
Approved February 17, 1853.

passage.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

§ 1. The notice required by the fifth section of the "Act to incorporate the St. Louis and Bellevue Mineral Railroad Company," approved January 25, 1837, (which section has been made part of the act incorporating the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company), to be given by said St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company in making calls for payments on its stock, may be given by publishing the same at least once a week, for eight successive calendar weeks, in not less than two newspapers published in the county of St. Louis.

This act shall take effect from its passage.
Approved November 17, 1855.

AN ACT to amend the several acts incorporating the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad

Company.

§ 1. Road may be so located as to connect |§ 2. Authorized to unite with Cairo and with the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, Fulton Railroad; on what terms. etc., etc. 3. Rates of representation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

§ 1. It shall be lawful for said St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company, in permanently establishing the line of said railroad south of the Pilot Knob, to locate the same so as to connect with the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, and from any part or point in the line of said Cairo and Fulton Railroad, to locate and construct a branch road to any point on the Mississippi river, below Cairo, and, also, from any point on the main line, or as a continuation of the main line, or from any point on line of the Cairo and Fulton Road, to construct a branch road to any point on the Mississippi river, in New Madrid county, or to continue and establish the main line of said railroad from the Pilot Knob to any point on the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the Ohio river, and to locate and construct branch roads from any point on the line of said road, not exceeding sixty miles length.

§ 2. It shall be lawful for said St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company to unite with the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, for the purpose of enabling each company to use the road of the other, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by said companies, or they may unite in the construction of any part of either of said roads, or any branch road, and hold the same in common to the use of each of said companies, or the said

St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company may take stock in said Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, or any other road company connecting with. the same; may contract to construct the same or any part thereof; may receive in payment the whole or a part of the lands belonging to the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company, and, also, the State bonds authorized to be issued to said company, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the parties; or the said Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company and the said St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company may consolidate and form one company, under the name and style of either company, for such portion of said railroad, or branch roads, as lies between the point of intersection of the two roads and the Mississippi river, or the Arkansas State line, or between both such points or places.

§ 3. That in all elections of President, Directors, or other officers, or other votes by said stockholders of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad, every stockholder shall be allowed one vote for each share of stock owned, less than six hundred; and for each share of stock so owned, over six hundred shares, said stockholder shall be allowed one vote for every three shares so owned.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.
Approved March 3, 1857.

PLATTE COUNTY RAILROAD COMPANY.

AN ACT to incorporate the Platte County Railroad Company, and to expedite the Construction of said Railroad.

§ 1. Style of the corporation; capital stock; | § 14. Directors to make exhibit of the affairs

its division into shares.

2. Names of Board of Directors.

3. When election to be held for Directors. 4. Time of annual election.

15.

5. Directors authorized to appoint agents, Engineers, etc.

16.

6. Directors to make calls for the payment of the capital stock.

17.

7. Company empowered to locate and construct a railroad.

18.

8. How right of way obtained when owner refuses to relinquish it.

19.

20.

9. Persons appointed to view said land to file their report in the Clerk's office. 10. Company may build said road along or across any State or county road.

11. Within what time construction of road commenced and finished.

12. Dividends to be declared semi-annually. 13. County Courts authorized to subscribe to the stock of the company.

of the company at each annual meeting.

Record of expense of constructing the road to be kept.

Any person ceasing to be a stockholder shall cease to be a member of the company.

Any person injuring said road deemed guilty of a criminal offense. Operations of the company confined to the business of making and using said railroad.

Stock of the company considered personal property.

Company authorized to hold gifts, grants, donations, and loans of lands, money, or bonds.

21. What provisions of the act concerning corporations shall not apply to this company.

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