Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That R B Brush, John Turney, Horatio Newhall, D B. Morehouse, G W Fuller, John Dowling, M. C Comstock, J W Stephenson, N T Head, Henry Corwith H H Grear, G W Campbell, Daniel Wann, Moses Hallet, W C Bostwick[,] and T B Farnsworth and their associates, successors[,] and assigns are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of “The Galena Rail Road and transportation Company,” for the term of Fifty years from and after the passage of this act, and by and under that name and style, during said term, shall be and are hereby delared competent to contract and be contracted with, and capable in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded; to answer and be answered unto; to defend and be defended in all courts[,] places, and matters whatever; to make, have[,] and use a common seal and the same to alter, change, break[,] and renew at pleasure, and also to make establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances[,] and regulations as shall in their opinion be necessary and convenient for the government of the Corporation hereby created, and the prudent and efficient management of its affairs and not in any wise contravening the laws of this state or of the United States; and generally to do

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all, and singular, the acts, matters, and things that a corporation may rightfully do in the premises. And the said Corporation shall have the right, and are hereby empowered, and authorized to construct or cause to be constructed, and during the continuance of this charter to maintain and continue a Rail Road or Rail Roads with a single or double track or otherwise, and with such appendages as may be deemed necessary or convenient from the Town of Galena in the County of Jo Daviess to such point or points on the northern boundary line of this state, as shall, upon survey or surveys to be made, be deemed eligible, proper and convenient.

Sec 2. And the President and Directors herein after provided for are hereby authorized and empowered to exercise all the powers and authority herein granted for the purpose of locating, constructing, completing, maintaining[,] and using said Rail Road or Rail Roads,

The said [corp]oration may purchase and hold lands and materials for, and lay out the said road or roads six rods wide throughout, and for cutting embankments, procuring stones, gravel, constructing bridges, viaducts[,] and tunnels, and erecting the necessary buildings . . .

roads, at such rates per mile as to them may or shall seem expedient and proper. And to manage and regulate and prescribe all matters relating to the time and manner of such transportation, the construction of wheels, form, weight[,] and size of all cars, carriages[,] or vehicles to be used on said road or roads, and all other things relating to said transportation, and establish such rules and ordinances in relation thereto as they may deem proper.

Sec 19. The Directors shall semiannually or otherwise declare and pay such dividends of so much of theIr profits of the corporation as may to a majority of them seem proper, and in case of any loss the estate of each and every stock holder shall be liable for the amount actually subscribed for by him, her[,] or them, and remaining unpaid.

Provided that if the said corporation shall not commence the survey of the route or routes, and the construction of the Rail Road, or Rail Roads within three years from and after the passage of this act, then this act to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force.

Sec 20. This act is hereby declared a public act and shall take effect from and after its passage, and shall be liberally construed for every purpose herein contained, and all printed copies of the

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same which shall be printed by or under the authority of the General Assembly, shall be admitted by all courts and places, magistrates and public officers as good evidence thereof without any further proof whatever. Provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to authorise said company to make more than two rail roads