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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. * Earnings from passenger ... York , Avon , Geneseo and Mount Morris , 204 . 212 Bleecker Street and Fulton ... City , .... 239 Brooklyn City and Newtown , 245 Brooklyn City and Ridgewood ...
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. * Earnings from passenger ... York , Avon , Geneseo and Mount Morris , 204 . 212 Bleecker Street and Fulton ... City , .... 239 Brooklyn City and Newtown , 245 Brooklyn City and Ridgewood ...
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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Name of Company . Brooklyn City and Newtown , Report filed . Dec. 25 , 1865 . Brooklyn City and Ridgewood ,. Brooklyn City and Rockaway , Dec. 23 , 1865 . No Report . Brooklyn , East New York ...
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Name of Company . Brooklyn City and Newtown , Report filed . Dec. 25 , 1865 . Brooklyn City and Ridgewood ,. Brooklyn City and Rockaway , Dec. 23 , 1865 . No Report . Brooklyn , East New York ...
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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Hunter's Point , Ravenswood and Astoria ... York , ... Long Island , Metropolitan Railroad , Metropolitan Railway , Nassau , .. New York Central ,. New York Northern Central ,. New York City ...
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. Hunter's Point , Ravenswood and Astoria ... York , ... Long Island , Metropolitan Railroad , Metropolitan Railway , Nassau , .. New York Central ,. New York Northern Central ,. New York City ...
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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. 7 List of roads in operation using horse ... City and Newtown . Central Park , North and East River . Coney Island and Brooklyn . Dry Dock , East Broadway and Battery . Eighth Avenue ( New York ) ...
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor. 7 List of roads in operation using horse ... City and Newtown . Central Park , North and East River . Coney Island and Brooklyn . Dry Dock , East Broadway and Battery . Eighth Avenue ( New York ) ...
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... city for New York or Boston started from same locality . Passengers going East or West had only to step fi one train to another . The trains of the New York Central and other roads named , all started from the same depot . Trains are ...
... city for New York or Boston started from same locality . Passengers going East or West had only to step fi one train to another . The trains of the New York Central and other roads named , all started from the same depot . Trains are ...
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8-wheel cars Albany amount now paid annexed report Avenue Average rate baggage cars Broadway Railroad Brooklyn Brooklyn City Buffalo capital stock carried in cars cars rated caused the foregoing cent CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD Communications intended Coney Island cost of iron COST OF ROAD deposes and says Elmira Erie Railway fixtures floating debt freight cars freight trains Fulton Ferry funded debt Grand Street Ferry Hudson River injured killed last report Length of road Morrisania Mount Morris N. Y. TROY NAMES AND RESIDENCES Notary Public Number of miles Number of passengers Number of tons Oil and waste Oswego passenger and baggage passenger trains Railroad Company rate of speed rated as 8-wheel real estate Rensselaer and Saratoga RESIDENCES OF OFFICERS ROAD AND EQUIPMENT Schenectady speed adopted Staten Island STOCK AND DEBTS stock subscribed street Subscribed and sworn Treasurer undersigned have caused Utica Watertown WESTCHESTER Co York and Erie York and Harlem YORK CITY
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Page 43 - ... go to the informer and the other half to the state, and also be liable for all damages which shall be sustained by any person, by reason of such neglect.
Page 27 - To take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate and other property as shall be made to it to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its railroad ; but the real estate received by voluntary grant shall be held and used for the purposes of such grant only.
Page 54 - If any corporation formed under this act shall not, within five years after its articles of association are filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, begin the construction of its road, and expend thereon ten per -cent on the amount of its capital, or shall not finish its road and put it in operation in seven years from the time of filing its articles of association as aforesaid, its corporate existence and powers shall cease.
Page 18 - Xo person holding stock in any such company, as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company...
Page 28 - To regulate the time and manner in which passengers and property shall be transported, and the tolls and compensation to be paid therefor...
Page 36 - Every corporation formed under this act, shall erect and maintain fences on the sides of their road, of the height and strength of a division fence required by law, with openings or gates or bars therein, and farm crossings of the road for the use of the proprietors of lands adjoining such railroad...
Page 42 - A bell of at least thirty pounds weight or a steam whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine, and shall be rung or whistled at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where...
Page 15 - On compliance with the provisions of the next section, such articles of association may be filed in the office of the secretary of state, who shall endorse thereon the day they are filed, and record the same in a book to be provided by him for that purpose; and thereupon the persons who have so subscribed such articles of association, and...
Page 18 - ... but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estates and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee shall be liable, in like manner and to the same extent, as the testator or intestate, or the ward or person interested in such fund, would have been if he had been living and competent to act, and held the stock in his own name.
Page 24 - ... company on account thereof, on such company paying into court a sufficient sum, or giving security, as the court may direct, to pay the compensation therefor when finally ascertained ; and in every such case the party interested in such real estate may conduct the proceedings to a conclusion, if the company delays or omits to prosecute the same.