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CHAP. XIX.] W. P. Lyman, A. W. Puett, G. P. Waldron, B. Wood, H. S. Donaldson, J. W. Boyle, and H. D. Betts.

. 14. It shall be lawful for a majority of the persons named in this act, or their successors, by giving thirty days' notice, stating the objects, to call a meeting of the stockholders of said company, and the secretary of said company shall certify said call, and record the same, as well as all matters that may be transacted under said call, in a suitable book provided for such purpose.

. 15. Said company shall have power to unite its road, in whole or in part, with any other railroad or railroads either in this territory or in the states of low Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, or Territory of Nebraska, and to grant to any such company or companies, the right to construct, operate, or use this line of road, and to lease its right of way and franchises, together with its equipments, rolling stock, furniture, and materials used in constructing or operating said road, and authorize such railroad company or companies to complete, finish, use, and operate such line of roads so purchased or leased, upon such terms as may be mutually agreed between the said company or companies, or may consolidate the capital stock with the capital stock of any railroad company or companies with which it shall intersect, and shall have power to place the road of said company and its capital stock so consolidated, under the direction of a board of directors of not less than five persons, who shall be chosen from the stockholders of the company so consolidated, not less than two of which shall have been members and stockholders of the company previous to its consolidation as aforesaid.

. 16. Notice shall be published in at least one newspaper printed in the territory, for the election of directors and calls for instalments to be made upon the capital stock, and all meetings of stockholders; all matters intended for the action of stockholders, by the directors or stockholders authorized to call meeetings, shall be published in the notice given for the meeting before which said matters will be brought.

. 17. The said corporation shall be bound to repair all public highways or bridges which may be injured in constructing said railroad, and shall restore them, as far as prac-