cer, 1852, as appears of record in the office of the said Secretary of State, has been executed in the manner and with the provisions required by an act of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin, entitled "an act to authorize the business of banking," approved April 19, 1852, and that such mortgage or deed of trust is the first lien on a certain portion of road of the said Railroad Company of not less length than forty miles, to wit, on so much of said road as lies between Waukesha and Milton, being forty-two and one half miles in extent, its equipments, depots, fixtures, machinery, income and franchises. Signed E. ESTABROOK, Att'y Gen. Filed in the office of State Treasurer at Madison this 19th day of Septem ber, 1853. (Signed) E. H. JANSSEN, By D. M. SEAVER. OFFICE OF STATE TREASURER, I do hereby certyfy that the preceding papers are copies of the statement of the directors of the "Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company," on file in this office and of the certificate, filed therewith, bearing date Sept. 14th, 1853 and that the same are full and correct copies of the whole and of every part of such statement and certificates. E. H. JANSSEN, OFFICE OF ATTormey General OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, October 4, 1853. Upon the statement of the Directors of the Milwaukee & Mississppi Rail Road Co., and the certificates bearing date Sept. 14th, 1853, filed therewith in the office of the State Treasurer, I have no hesitation in saying that the bonds of the said rail road company secured by a mortgage or deed of trust, and bearing date June 15, 1852, executed by the said company, to George S. Coe, of the city of New York, on so much of said road as lies between the city of Milwaukee and the east bank of Rock River in said State, are receivable as a basis for banking within the restrictions contained in an act entitled "an ac to authorize the business of banking, approved April 19, 1852. E. ESTABROOK, Att'y. General. OFFICE OF BANK COMPTROLLER, MADISON, Wisconsin, Oct. 4, 1354 The bonds of the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road Company to which the opinion of the Attorney General of this date and the preceeding papers relate, will be received at this office as a basis for banking, within the restrictions contained in an act entitled "an act to authorize the business of banking," approved April 19, 1852. JAMES S. BAKER, The following statement will show the names of the persons who have executed Bonds, now on deposit in the Bank Comptroller's Office, (in addition to the State Stocks deposited,) to further secure the redemption of the countersigned notes issued to their respective Banks, as required by Section 17, of the Banking Laws: Names of Bondsmen: Sam'l Marshall and Chas. F Ilsley. - $12,500 Wisconsin Marine & Fire Ins. Co., Milwaukee, penalty of bond, 25,000 Bank of Racine, Racine, penalty of bond, 12,500 Names of Bondsmen: Aug. L McCrea, William J Bell, and City Bank of Kenosha, Kenosha, penalty of bond, 6,250 Names of Bondsmen: A Campbell, E W Blinn, H W Hub- City Bank of Kenosha, Kenosha, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: HB Towslee, Sam Hale, S Bronson, jr., State Bank of Wisconsin, Milwankee, penalty of bond, 6,250 Names of Bondsmen: James B Martin, Eliphalet Cramer, Wisconsin Bank, Mineral Point, penalty of bond, 12,500 Names of Bondsmen: CC Washburn and Cyrus Woodman. Farmers & Millers' Bank, Milwaukee, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: Newcomb, Cleveland, Stephen H Alden, Farmers & Millers' Bank, Milwaukee, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: Edward H Brodhead, S H Alden, An- Jefferson County Bank, Watertown, penalty of bond, 12,500 12,5000 6,250 Jefferson County Bank, Watertown, penalty of bond, 6,250 Names of Bandsmen: James Kneeland, David P Hull and Benj S Henning. Racine County Bank, Racine, penalty of bond, 12,500 Names of Bondsmen: George C Northrop, L W Munroe, RM Exchange Bank of Win J Bell & Co., Milwaukee, penalty of boud, 12,500 T Names of Bondsmen: Wm J Bell and E S Wadsworth. Names of Bondsmen: Gilbert Knapp, W H Waterman and Alex McClurg... Bank of the West, Madison. penalty of bond, 25,000 Names of Bondsmen: James E Kelly, James Ludington and Geo W Chapman. Bank of the West, Madison, penalty cf bond, Name of Bondsmen; Samuel A Lowe. 8,750 Names of Bondsmen: Bank of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, penalty of bond, 6,250 Bank of Commerce, Milwaukee, penalty of bond, 25,000 Names of Bondsmen: George W Peckham, James H Rogers, Columbia County Bank, Portage City, penalty of bond, 6,250 Names of Bondsmen: Samuel Marshall, Charles F Ilsley and Fox River Bank, Green Bay, penalty of bond, 7,000 Names of Bondsmen: Joseph G Lawton, M L Martin, F Des- Northern Bank, Howard, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: Otto Tank, M L Martin and E Conklin. Germania Bank, of G Papendick & Co, Milwaukee, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: Levi B Vilas, Leonard J Farwell and N 6,250 People's Bark of Haertel, Greenleaf & Co, Milwaukee, penalty of bond, 6,250 Bank of Watertown, Watertown, penalty of bond, Names of Bondsmen: A L Pritchard, Linus R Cady, Luther 12,500 |