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 366 THIRTY—ElGlITl·I CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 217. 1864., N011h6m Pm- F. Perkins, Richard Chenery, Samuel Brannan, George Rowland, §;,§,?'h`°“d C°m` Henry Platt, of California; William F. Mercer, James W. Brownley, of Virginia; John H. B. Latrobe, W. Prescott Smith, of Maryland; Greenbury Slack, A. J. Boreman, of West Virginia; Thomas E. Bramlette, Frank Shorin, of Kentucky ; John Brough, John A. Bingham, Oran Follett, John Gardner, S. S. L’Hommedieu, Harrison G. Blake, Philo Chamberlin, of Ohio; John A. Duncan, Samuel·M. Harrington, of Delaware; Thomas A. Morris, Jesse L. Williams, of Indiana; Samuel L. Case, Henry L. Hall, David H. Jerome, Thomas _D. Gilbert, C. A. Trowbridge, of Michigan ; Edward H. Broadhead, Alexander Mitchell, Benjamin Ferguson, Levi Sterling, —-—— Marshal, of Wisconsin; J. C. Ainsworth, Orlando Humason, H. W. Corbett, Henry Failling, of Oregon ; J. B. S. Todd, M. K. Armstrong, J. Shaw Gregory, J. Le Berge, of Dakota Territory; John Mullan, Anson G. Henry, S. D. Smith, Charles Terry, of Washington Territory; H. W. Starr, Platt Smith, Nixon Denton, William Leighton, B. F. Allen, Reuben Noble, John L. Davies, of Iowa; Willai·d P. Hall, George R. Smith, H. Gayle King, John C. Sargeant, of Missouri; William H. Wallace, of Idaho Territory; J. H. Lathrop, Henry D. Cooke, H. E. Merrick, of the District of Columbia, and all such other persons who shall or may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby created and erected into a bodyporporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of the “Northern Pacino Railroad Company,” and by that name shall have perpemal Powers, Sw. succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal. &3lag'J;§_g;§» And said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out, lo- ,,mfm1eg,.,,ph cate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and line. telegraph line, with the appurtenances, namely, beginning at a point on Lake Superior, in the State of Minnesota or Wisconsin ; thence westerly by the most eligible railroad route, as shall he determined by said company, within the territory of the United States. on a line north of the forty-fifth degree of latitude to some point on Puget’s Sound, with a branch, via the valley of the Columbia River, to a point at or near Portland, in the State of Oregon, leaving the main trunk-line at the most suitable place, not more than three hundred miles from its western terminus; and is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges, and immunities necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this act as herein set forth. G¤1>ii¤lSY<>¢k· The capital stock of said company shall consist of one million shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall in all respects be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable in such manner as the by-laws of said corporation shall provide. The persons hereinbefore named are hereby C<>mmiSSi<>¤¢F¤· appointed commissioners, and shall be called the board of commissioners of the “Northern Pacific Railroad Company," and fifteen shall constitu[t]e $;;;’;‘;;éGng a quorum for the transaction of business. The first meeting of said board ,,m,mm,sS,On,,,S_ of commissioners shall be held at the Melodzon hall, in the city of Boston, at such time as any five commissioners herein named from Massachusetts shall appoint, not more than three months after the passage of this act, notice of which shall be given by them to the other commissioners by publishing said notice in at least one daily newspaper in the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago, once a week at least four weeks previous to the day of meeting. Said board shall Officers. &¤· organize by the choice from its number of a president, vice-president, sec— retary, and treasurer, and they shall require from said treasurer such bonds as may be deemed proper, and may from time to time increase the amount thereof as they may deem proper. The secretary. shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties, and such oath shall be entered upon the records of the company, signed by him, and the oath verified thereon. The president and secretary of said board shall in like manner call all