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Includes "Statistical tables compiled from the annual returns of the railroad companies of the state."

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Page 21 - ... prescribing the terms and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the number and names of the directors and other officers thereof, and who shall be the first directors and officers, and their places of residence, the number of shares of the...
Page 8 - In estimating such confinement the time during which the animals have been confined without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received shall be included, it being the intent of this section to prohibit their continuous confinement beyond the period of twenty-eight hours, except upon contingencies hereinbefore stated.
Page 3 - No County, City, Town, Borough, or other municipality, shall ever subscribe to the capital stock of any railroad corporation, or become a purchaser of the bonds, or make donation to, or loan its credit, directly or indirectly, in aid of any such corporation; but nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any bonds or debts incurred under existing laws, nor be construed to prohibit the General Assembly from authorizing any Town or City to protect by additional appropriations of money or...
Page 22 - ... in some newspaper printed in the city, town or county where such company has its principal office or place of business ; and at the said meeting of stockholders the agreement of the said directors shall be considered, and a vote by ballot taken for the adoption or rejection of the same, each share...
Page 21 - ... company to its stockholders by written or printed notices addressed to each of the persons in whose names the capital stock of such company stands on the books thereof...
Page 18 - Each subscriber to such articles of association shall subscribe thereto his name, place of residence, and the number of shares of stock he agrees to take in said company. On compliance with the provisions of the...
Page 48 - U8e to transport over the line of its road any railroad port material ties, sleepers, or material to be used in the construction anotner'road. or repair of any other railroad, at the same rate or price as other freight of the same class, shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars, half to him who shall sue therefor, and half to the State.
Page 21 - ... directors and other officers thereof, and who shall be the first directors and officers, and their places of residence, the number of shares of the capital stock, the amount or par value of each share, and the manner of converting...
Page 48 - ... roads connect shall not charge or receive for the transportation of freight to any station on the road of either of them a greater sum than is at the time charged or received for the transportation of the like class and quantity of freight from the same original point of departure to a station at a greater distance on the road of either of them in the same direction. In the construction of this section, the sum charged or received for the transportation of freight shall include all terminal charges...
Page 64 - Willimantic Railroad Company, the Shepaug Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or either of them, to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed for by it in any of said companies; but such bonds or stock, when their avails shall have been expended in the construction of any of said railroads, shall be assessed and taxed in the manner provided in section 2424.

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