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 504 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 330, 341, 342. 1894. the election is closed shall count the votes and declare who have been elected; and if at any time it shall happen that an election ot directors shall not be made at the time specified, the corporation shall not for that reason be dissolved, but it shall be lawful to hold and make such election of directors on any day within three months thereafter by giving at least ten days’ previous notice of the time and place of holding said election in the manner aforesaid, and the directors of the preceding year shall in that case continue in office, and be invested with . all powers belonging to them as such until others are elected in their vmucm. · stead. In case of the death or resignation of a director, or a failure to _ elect in case of a tie vote, the vacancy may be iilled by the board of "¤*¤¤ <>f ¤¤•¤l=°*d· directors. At all general meetings or elections by the stockholders, °"' each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote, and each ballot shall have indorsed thereon the number of shares represented; but no share or shares transferred within sixty days next preceding any election or general meeting of the stockholders shall entitle the holder or holders thereofto vote at any such election or general meeting, nor shall any proxy be received or entitle the holder to vote unless the same shall bear date and have been duly executed within the three months next preceding such election or general meeting. A¤¤•¤·i¤¤¤*· •*¤- Sec. 8. That Congress may at any time amend, alter, or repeal this - Act. » · Approved, August 24, 1894. Augnsttl, IDL CHAP. 341.-—An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to create a new divi- —i··""‘*"_ eionagtgghe northern judicial district of Georgia," approved March third, eighteen hun and ninety-one. . Be it enuctedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United .ug?;s*,;·jstd¤;~;¤¤¤¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the circuit J rm-ms of mm. and district courts for the western division of the northern judicial discolumbus. trict of Georgia, held at Columbus, shall convene on the iirst Monday in May and the first Monday in December, instead of the first Monday ver 2•s,p.uw. in June and the first Monday in January, as now provided by law. And each of said terms shall continue as long as the presiding judge may deem necessary. Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws conilicting with this Act are hereby repealed. · Approved, August 27, 1894. August 27, 1804. _ CHAP. 342.--An Act Granting to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company a ————--——--· x‘;x‘gl£i::;gy:hrough the Chippewa and White Earth Indian reservations in the State · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Dugan mguwmi- States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted i6,?,,,,,, ‘,T,§{,, ,,'}",'§ to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company, a corporation organized éfgnvxwgiw and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, and to its assigns, mm. °°’ the right of way for the extension of its railroad, and for a telegraph and telephone line, through the Chippewa and White Earth Indian Lmneu. reservations in said State, commencing at some point on its already constructed line in said State and running in a general westerly or northwesterly direction, by such route as shall be deemed advisable, to some point on the western boundary line of the said State, or to some point on the northern boundary line thereof, between the Red River of the wma., ew. North and the Lake of the Woods, or to both such points. Such right of way shall be fifty feet in width on each side of the central line of said railroad, and said company shall also have the right to take from the lands adjacent to the line of said road material, stone, and earth necessary for the construction of said railroad; also grounds adjacent to such