574. FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 122. 1871. B5¤¤¤§ EMWG C. Osborne, Timothy Hurley, C. C. Pool, Silas N. Martin, John M. Corso, p,:,;°§,c0,.B§2` George E. Wentworth, Philip H. Morgan, J. D. Cameron, Marshal O, rated. Roberts, James L. Hodges, John Ray, W. Vermilye, Enoch L. Faucher. c°’P°"”°”· Charles F. Livermore, Joseph H. Oglesby, John Whytock, Daniel Drew, F. S. Davis, W. Orton, A. C. Babcock, Thomas A. Scott, Samuel D. Hoffman, H. Ramsdale, William H. Jackson, R. C. Parsons, Delos W. Emmons, M. A. Southworth, John H. Hall, G. C. Kinzey, W. P. Clark, James Dart, H. Jacobs, L. T. Smith, W. P. Dole, C. A. Weed, A. P. K. Salford, H. McCullough, Charles Jackson, Elisha Dyer, Alfred Anthony, James Hoy, M. W. Benjamin, H. D. Cooke, Joseph R. West, W. S. Huntington, J. M. Tebbetts, C. C. Leondridge, D. D. Porter, M. Woodhull, Hiram Price, M. C. Hunters W. T. Walters, J. B. Brownlow, T. A. Morris, Owen Tuller, J. H. Ledlie, R. M. Bishop, Samuel Craighead, D. N. Stanton, Augustus H. Whiting, G. L. Johnston, J. W. Goodland, Powell Clayton, Samuel Tate, W. Bolton, H. Robinson, George Maney, O. H. Bynum, M. Burns, J. C. Goodloe, E. G. Barney, Cyrus Busey, J. W. Forney, J. Lockwood, E. M. Davis, N. Patton, W. F lanegan, G. O’Brien, G. P. Buel, G. H. Gidding, J. J. Newell, E. W. Rice, R. M. Shoemaker, Samuel Sloan, S. W. Morton, J. B. Bowman, L. M. Flournoy, J. J. Hinds, G. R. Weeks, J. T. Ludling, B. C. Gilbert, B. D. Williams, Thomas Olcott, G. A. Fosdick, Harry Hays, P. S. Forbes, John T. Sprague, L. R. Marsh, A. W. Beckwith, J. C. Stanton, Cyrus H. Baldwin,A. J. Hamilton, Rush R. Sloan, Silas C. Colgrove, Samuel D. Jones, N. H. Decker, William N. Leet, B. F. Allen, J. B. Chaves, Augustus Kountze, John N. Goodwin, William S. Rosecrans, Michael Hahn, H. C. Warmouth, J. S. Williams, G. M. Spencer, L. J. Higby, W. C. Kimball, and all such persons as shall or may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, by the name, style, and title of the Texas Pacific Railroad Powers ofcor- Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall P°’°·*l°¤- be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and Route ¤f rail- may make and use a common seal ; and the said corporation is hereby
- Q‘;,;‘m£°l°` authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain,
and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph line, with the appurtenances, from a point at or near Marshall, county of Harrison, State of Texas ; thence by the most direct and eligible route, to be determined by said company, near the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, to a point at or near El Paso; thence by the most direct and eligible route, to be selected by said company, through New Mexico and Arizona, to apoint on the Rio Colorado, at or near the southeastern boundary of the State of California; thence by the most direct and eligible route to San Diego, California, to ship’s channel, in the bay of San Diego, in the State of Califbruia, pursuing in the location thereof, as near as may be, the thirty- second parallel of north latitude, and is hereby vested with all the powers, plpivileges, and immunities necessary to carry into effect the purfpojses of is act. Rlgicxng P¤¤i¤¤ Sn.o._2. That the persons named in the first section of this act shall mm',g;,r:°';` constitute aboard of commissioners, (twenty of whom shall constitute a msettnniw quorum for the transaction of business,) to be known as the Texas Y°*‘k “'l'·l‘i¤»&°· Pacific Railroad commissioners, who shall meet in the city of New York within ninety days after the passage of this act, at a time to be desig- Notice. nated in a notice to be signed by the person first named in the list of porporators and six of his associates, and to be published for two weeks rn, at least, one daily newspaper in New York, New Orleans, and Washbogppgsptptiop I mgtonl; and, when so met, they may cause books to be opened for the mm ‘ mp “ subscription of the capital stock of said company, and when twenty thousand shares, amounting to two millions of dollars, shall have been subscribed, and ten per centum actually paid thereon, in money, to the
