Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by THE TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS, THERE ARE FEW MEN LIVING TO WHOM AMERICAN COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IS MORE LARGELY INDEBTED THAN TO Marshall O. Roberts. IN THE TRUE SPIRIT OF AN EMINENT MERCHANT, HE HAS DEVOTED YEARS OF PATIENT ENERGY AND OF LIBERAL AND FAR-SEEING EN TERPRISE TO THE GRAND WORK OF OPENING AND KEEPING OPEN THE INTER-OCEANIC GATEWAYS OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT, AND PROVIDING NEW CHANNELS FOR THE COMMERCE OF THE ORIENT. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE IS NOW ABOUT TO REALIZE ANOTHER OF THOSE SAGACIOUS PROPHECIES OF THE ROUTES OF COMMERCE WHICH HAVE WON HIM HIS PRESENT PROUD POSITION AMONG THE MERCANTILE LEADERS OF THE NEW WORLD. TO HIM THIS MODEST VOLUME, DEVOTED TO THE DEFENCE AND ELUCIDATION OF IDEAS WHICH ARE DEAR TO HIS HEART AND HOPES, AS THE LEADING PROMOTER OF THE TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY, IS INSCRIBED. CONTENTS. GRANT FROM MEXICAN GOVERNMENT to Don ARTICLE 1. Decree of 1867 to be modified. 2. Authority to open communica- 4. Railroad to Pacific. Carriage 6. Before survey Government to 7. Surveys, &c., submitted within 8. Construction to begin with- 9. Carriage road to be built with- 11. Reservation of one-half of the 12. Cession of Government land 13. Company to have gratis from 14. Private property may be taken 28. Transit open to all nations. 29. Foreign mails to be in sealed 30. Government may appoint one- 31. Right to navigate river Goat- 32. Not to conflict with right of 33. No tonnage duty for through 34. Company responsible for Falco- 35. Company to be a Mexican or- 36. All engaged now or hereafter |