the Company is insolvent, or the payment of which would render it insolvent, they shall be severally liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars. representation in SEC. 15. If any certificate or report made, or public Penalty for false notice given, by the officers of any such Company, in Reports. pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall be willfully false in any material representations, all the officers who shall have signed the same, knowing it to be false, shall be severally liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars each. made and filed. See Converse no Grand Rapids and SEC. 16. Every such Company proceeding to construct Map of Route to be a part of their road into or through any county named in their certificate of Association, shall make a map of the route intended to be adopted by such Company, which shall be certified by a majority of the Directors, and filed in the office of the Register of Deeds of such county, for inspection and examination of all persons interested therein. ties. SEC. 17. Every such corporation shall possess the rowers and liabiligeneral powers, and be subject to the liabilities and restrictions following, that is to say: etc. 1. To cause such examination and surveys for the To make survey, proposed Railroads to be made as may be necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route for the road, and for such purposes, by their officers, agents, and servants, to enter upon lands or waters of any person or company, but subject to liability for all damages which they shall do thereto; etc. 2. To receive, hold and take, such voluntary grants To take donations, and donations of real estate and other property, as shall be made to it, to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of such road; but the real estate thus received by voluntary grant, shall be held and used for the purposes of such grant only; To purchase and 3. To purchase, and by voluntary grants and dona take property nec essary for struction of Road, tions receive and take, and by its officers, engineers, surveyors and agents, enter upon and take possession of, hold and use, all such lands and real estate and other property, as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of its railroad, and stations, depots and other accommodations, but not until the compensation to Owners to be com- be made therefor, as agreed upon by the parties, or ascertained as hereinafter prescribed, be paid to the owners thereof, or deposited as hereinafter directed, unless the consent of such owner be given therefor ; pensated. To lay out and construct Roads. To cross watercourse, hghways, etc. To cross, intersect, etc., with other Railroads. 4. To lay out its roads not exceeding six rods wide, and to construct the same; and for the purpose of cutting embankments, and procuring stone and gravel, may take as much more lands within the limits of its charter, in the manner hereinafter provided, as may be necessary for the proper construction and security of the road; 5. To construct their road across any stream of water, watercourse, private road, highway, plank road, railroad, or canal, which the route of its road shall intersect, but the corporation shall restore the stream, or watercourse, private road, highway, plank road, railroad, or canal, to its former state, as near as may be: 6. To cross, intersect, join and unite its railroad with any other railroad now or hereafter constructed, whether the same be so constructed under this act, or under any charter now or hereafter granted, at any point on its route, and upon the grounds of such other Railroad Company, with the necessary turn outs, sidings and switches, and other conveniences, in furtherance of the object of To make running its connections; and to make all such running and business arrangements as said Companies may agree upon ; and every Company whose railroad shall be intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the owners of such new railroad in forming such intersections and connec arrangements. |