Company has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, and the same to be attested by the signatures of its president and secretary, and has also caused the coupons hereto annexed to be signed by its secretary on the 30th day of November, A. D. 1872.

President.
Secretary.

C. & N. W.
R'Y CO.

SEAL.

It is hereby certified that the above bond is one of the bonds secured by the deed of trust, bearing date on the 30th day of November, A. D. 1872, above mentioned.

UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,

States of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, and Ter

ritory of Dokota.

For value received, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company promise to pay to or assigns, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in gold coin of the United States, on the first day of December, in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, with interest thereon, from the day of 18, inclusive, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in gold, on the first days of June and December of each year, at the office or agency of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, in the city of New York, until said principal sum becomes due.

This bond is transferrable on the books of the company, at its office or agency aforesaid, and is one of a series of coupon and registered bonds issued, and to be issued to an aggregate amount not exceeding forty-eight millions of dollars, for the purpose of consolidating the entire mortgage debts of said railway company, and of the several railroad and railway companies, whose stock is owned and whose railroads are controlled and operated by it, and which shall become consolidated with it, and is secured by a deed of trust bearing date on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1872. upon all the lines of railroad, franchises and property of said Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and of the other companies aforesaid, severally.

The deed of trust provides for a sinking fund, to be applied annually to the purchase and cancelation of this debt.

This bond shall not become obligatory until it shall have been

authenticated by a certificate endorsed hereon, and duly signed by the trustee.

In witness whereof the said Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, and the same to be attested by the signatures of its president and secretary, on this A. D. 18

day of

It is hereby certified that the above bond is one of the bonds secured by the deed of trust bearing date on the thirtieth day of November, A. D. 1862, above mentioned.

UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
By

For value received

hereby assign unto

President.

within bond, issued by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and hereby authorize said company to transfer said bond on its books, at its office or agency in the city of New York. Dated

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EXHIBIT 7.

An act to authorize the Chicago, St. Paul aud Fond du Lac Railroad Company, and the Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company to consolidate.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Ilinois and Wisconsin, by consolidation of the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad Company in the State of Illinois, and the Rock River Valley Railroad Company, in the State of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Wisconsin; are hereby authorized and empowered to consolidate the capital stock of the two companies, and to make the two companies one, and to place the affairs and property of the two companies under the direction of one board of directors of not less than thirteen nor more than seventeen, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon a majority of each of the two boards of directors of said companies respectively Provided, That the stockholders representing a majority of the stock in each company to be thus consolidated consent to such consolidation. And the affairs, property, and business of the consolidated companies hereby created shall be conducted, man

aged, and carried by the two boards of directors of said companies, jointly acting as the board of directors of the consolidated company until the election of directors of the consolidated company on the first Tuesday in October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, as provided in section four (4) of this act. And thereafter the directors so elect shall have the powers of the joint board aforesaid. In the joint board aforesaid each director holding such office in both of the boards thus jointly acting shall be entitled to two votes on any question before the board, unless otherwise ordered by the respective boards in agreeing upon the terms of consolidation aforesaid.

SECTION 2. Whenever the said two companies shall have agreed to consolidate; and settled the terms thereof in writing, in some form in their discretion, either by resolutions of their respective boards of directors, or by written agreement executed by some person or persons duly authorized in behalf of said companies, and when they shall have deposited with the Secretary of State a certificate of the fact of such consolidation, signed by the president of each of the companies aforesaid, therefrom and thereafter all rights, franchises, privileges, grants, conveyances, powers, immunities, property, and causes of action of the said Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company, and of the said Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, and also of the said two former companies, heretofore consolidated, to-wit: the said Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad Company, and the said Rock River Valley Union Railroad Company, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, thereby transferred to, conferred upon, merged in, belong to, and be the property of, and be owned by, the said consolidated company thus created; and the capital stock of the said consolidated company shall be the aggregate of the capital stock of the said two companies so consolidated, with power to increase the same to a sum not exceeding fifteen millions of dollars, or the whole cost of its line of railroad or other property; and the said consolidated company thus created shall be, and is hereby to be, a body politic and corporate, under the name of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, and may under such name, contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded with, and may take and enforce the right of way according to and in pursuance of the law applicable to either of the said companies so consolidated. After the certificates of consolidation aforesaid shall have been filed as aforesaid with the Secretary of State, he is required, when requested so to do, and on payment of his fee, to make an official certificate that the aforesaid companies are consolidated into one company and corporation, under the name aforesaid, and such certificate shall be evidence in any court of law or equity, or wherever proof is required of the fact of such consolidation, and that the said consolidated company is a body corporation, with all the powers, privileges, rights, property, and causes of action by virtue of this act conferred upon, or required by, said company. All rights or causes of action which either of the aforesaid companies have or might have before consolidation, may

be prosecuted or defended after such consolodation, in the name of the said Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, (the name of the consolidated company,) in the same manner and same rights as if said consolidated company had been an original party to such cause of action when the same arose and occurred, and any person or corporation having any claim or demand against either of said companies on or before such consolidation, may, after such consolidation, have and maintain suit therefor in any court having jurisdiction thereof against the said consolidated company after such consolidation.

SECTION 3. The said consolidated company hereby created shall be entitled to and invested with the title and ownership of all the lands, and all and singular the rights, privileges, and immunities granted or conferred by the act of Congress approved June 3, A. D. 1856, entitled, "An act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of railroads in said State," to the extent of the whole of the lands granted by said act of Congress for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad from Fond du Lac, on Lake Winnebago, northerly to the State line, as fully and completely as the said Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company is by its charter entitled to and invested with the same; subject, however, to all the terms, conditions, restrictions, limitations, impositions, duties, and obligations contained in the charter of the said Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company, and in said act of Congress as far as the same are applicable to the consolidated company hereby created: Provided, however, that the consolidated company hereby created shall not be required to pay any greater sum for taxes relatively than any other railroad companies in this State are required by law to pay, excepting on that portion of their line of railroad indicated in said act of Congress which shall be and remain as provided in the charter of the said Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company.

SECTION 4. The consolidated company hereby created shall hold an annual election of directors, at a place to be selected in one of the counties of the State of Illinois, or of this State, through which the said railroad passes. The first election shall be held on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1857, and notices of all annual and special meetings shall be given to the stockholders by publication in one or more newspapers published in the citites of Chicago, Milwaukee, and New York, for thirty days prior to such election.

SECTION 5. All municipal corporations, towns, villages or cities, which have been or may be authorized to loan their credit or subscribe to the capital stock of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, or to the Wisconsin and Superior Railroad Company, are hereby authorized to loan their credit to or subscribe to the capital stock of the consolidated company hereby created, to the same extent and on the same terms as by law said corporations, towns, villages, or cities are now authorized to loan their credit or to subscribe to the capital stock of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company.

SECTION 6. Any railroad company in this State, whose route

shall cross, intersect, come up to, or in contact with the route of the said consolidated railroad company, at any point at or north of the city of Fond du Lac, shall have a right to have running connections with the said consolidated railroad company, upon fair and just principles, to be adjusted by the superintendents of said companies. In agreeing upon the terms of such running connections, the tariff-rates for passengers and freight per mile shall be so adjusted that the said consolidated company shall have no advantage in the transportation of freight and passengers to Chicago, over any other railroad connecting as aforesaid in this State, running to any city or town on Lake Michigan. And if the superintendents of said consolidated railroad company and such connecting railroad shall be unable or fail to agree upon the terms of such running connections, they shall each select a railroad superintendent, and the two thus selected, if they can, shall choose a third person, and, if they cannot agree, then such third person shall be elected or appointed by the governor-all of whom shall be in no way interested in either company. And they, or a majority of them, shall adjust the terms of such running connections and such tariff-rates, and provide for suitable penalties and forfeitures. Such determination shall be reduced to writing and signed by said arbitrators, and one copy delivered to each of said companies, and the same shall be final and conclusive upon both parties.

SECTION. 7. This is hereby declared to be a public act, and the same, immediately after the passage thereof, shall be printed by the State printer, and when thus published shall take effect and be in force.

Approved February 12, 1857.

EXHIBIT 17.

An act to authorize the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company to guarantee certain bonds therein named.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact us follows:

SECTION 1. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, acting by its board of directors, is hereby authorized and empowered to guaranty the payment of principal and interest, or either of them, of any bonds or other written obligations issued by the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Minnesota, issued by the La Crosse, Trempealeau and Prescott Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Wisconsin: Such guaranty, heretofore executed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, of the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds of the said Winona and St. Peter's Railroad Company, is hereby ratified and confirmed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870.