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 ENTERPRISE 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. 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 ARTICLE 17. Exemption from duty granted 20. No tax on through traffic. ARTICLE 38. No sale of road, &c., without Government consent. Sale to foreign government" prohibited. How bonds may be issued and property hypothecated. 39. Board of Direction may be in United States. 40. Depot for coal and navy-yard in Huatulco. 41. Regarding suspension caused by force majeure." 42. Restrictions on the company. First. No fort to be built on Isthmus. Second. No armed force to Third. No foreign armed inals to be discharged from company's employ. Seventh. Measures as to revenue laws to be observed. 43. Causes of forfeiture of privi leges. First. In default of bond. Second. For failure to present plans and construct road within time limited. Third. For constructing fort on Isthmus. Fourth. For organizing an Sixth. For carrying articles Eighth. For suspension of work for one or two years. Ninth. For transfer of rights and property without consent of Government. 44. Company liable for non-compliance with other obligations. 45. Effect of forfeiture of privileges. 46. All information concerning the company to be furnished to Government. 47. Controversies concerning the construction and execution of this law to be decided by Mexican tribunals. |