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... RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND RAILROAD AND LAND COMPANY OF THE NEW YORK WILDERNESS : An act to organize this company : chap . 683 , Laws of 1865 . • NASSAU RAILROAD COMPANY : Articles of association filed March 12 STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR'S.
... RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND RAILROAD AND LAND COMPANY OF THE NEW YORK WILDERNESS : An act to organize this company : chap . 683 , Laws of 1865 . • NASSAU RAILROAD COMPANY : Articles of association filed March 12 STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR'S.
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... land described in the petition is required for the purpose of constructing or operating the proposed road ; and that the company has not been able to acquire title thereto , and the reason of such inability . The petition must also ...
... land described in the petition is required for the purpose of constructing or operating the proposed road ; and that the company has not been able to acquire title thereto , and the reason of such inability . The petition must also ...
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... land to be taken , in the state paper , and in a paper printed in the county in which the land to be taken is situated , once in each week for one month next previous to the presentation of the petition . And if the residence of such ...
... land to be taken , in the state paper , and in a paper printed in the county in which the land to be taken is situated , once in each week for one month next previous to the presentation of the petition . And if the residence of such ...
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... land is situated , once in each week for one month previous to the presentation of such petition . 6. In case any ... lands are to be appraised , or their attorneys , may , in case they appear , name six such persons , and the company a ...
... land is situated , once in each week for one month previous to the presentation of such petition . 6. In case any ... lands are to be appraised , or their attorneys , may , in case they appear , name six such persons , and the company a ...
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... land described in it is situated ; and thereupon , and on the pay- ment or deposit by the company of the sums to be paid as compensa- tion for the land , and for costs , expenses , and counsel fees as aforesaid , and as directed by said ...
... land described in it is situated ; and thereupon , and on the pay- ment or deposit by the company of the sums to be paid as compensa- tion for the land , and for costs , expenses , and counsel fees as aforesaid , and as directed by said ...
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8-wheel cars Albany and Susquehanna Albany and West amount now paid annexed report Avenue Average rate baggage cars Binghamton Broadway Railroad Brooklyn Brooklyn City Buffalo capital stock cars rated Cayuga and Susquehanna CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD Coney Island COST OF ROAD Elmira and Williamsport Erie Railway expenses floating debt freight trains Freight Transportation Fulton Ferry funded debt Grand Street Ferry Hudson River including stops injured killed Lake Champlain last report Length of road Morrisania Mount Morris NAME OF ROAD Number of miles Number of passengers Oil and waste Oswego and Syracuse passenger and baggage passenger cars Railroad Company rate of speed rated as 8-wheel real estate Rensselaer and Saratoga RESIDENCES OF OFFICERS ROAD AND EQUIPMENT Rochester and Genesee Saratoga and Whitehall Schenectady speed adopted Staten Island STOCK AND DEBTS Troy and Boston Utica and Black Warwick Valley Watertown West Stockbridge WESTCHESTER Co York and Erie York and Flushing 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.