Grand Total..

35,085

36,827 39,276 42.373 47,373 52,898 60,077 67, 104 70,651

General average increase of mileage per annum in all the states and territories.

Average number square miles to one mile of railway for all the states.. Av. No. sq. miles to one mile of railway for all the states and territories in which railways have been built General average increase of mileage per annum in all the states...

TERRITORIES.

LAWS RELATING TO RAILROADS.

STATE LEGISLATION.

Lars Relating to the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and the Roads merged in and absorbed by it.

[In abstract.]

GALENA AND CHICAGO UNION RAILROAD COMPANY.

From Galena to Chicago. Capital stock, $100,000, which may be increased to $1,000,000. Seven directors shall be chosen by stockholders, who shall have one vote for each share of stock, but no stockholder shall be allowed to vote at any election, after the first, for any stock assigned to him within thirty days of such election. Company may construct lateral routes, unite with any other railroad company upon any part of the route, and construct such lateral route as may be necessary to connect them with any other route deemed expedient. May construct a stone or gravel turnpike on any part of said route, and erect toll gates. May borrow money to an amount not exceeding capital stock. Act of Illinois Legislature, approved Jan. 16, 1836.

BELOIT AND MADISON RAILROAD COMPANY

Chap. 45 Laws of 1852, approved Feb. 18

Act of incorporation. Capital stock $1,200,000. Shares $50 each. Route to be from Beloit to Madison. May consolidate with intersecting roads. To make a division of profits when they exceed six per cent. upon capital stock paid in. Authorized to borrow money.

Chap. 21 Laws of 1853, approved Feb. 15.

Charter amended so that road shall not cross the north line of town two north, west of range eleven east of 4th meridian.

Chap. 338 P. Laws of 1857, approved March 7. Authorizing certain towns in Rock and Dane counties to aid, repealed. See chap. 195, P. Laws of 1858.

Chap. 104 G. Laws of 1863, approved March 26.

Legalizes the forclosure and sale of the Beloit and Madison Railroad, and reorganizes it under the same name, provided it is holden for the payment of

a judgment in favor of David Merrill, rendered Jan. 12, 1859, against the original company.

Chap. 370 P. Laws of 1866, approved April 9.

Authorized to consolidate with the Chicago and Northwestern R'y. Co., as the same is consolidated with the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Co., the Dixon, Rockford and Kenosha Railroad Company, and the Peninsula Railroad Co., of Michigan. May exercise all the powers heretofore conferred upon the Chicago and Northwstern Railroad Company and the Kenosha and Rockford Railroad Company. Shall not take up any of its main tracks in this state.

ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN RAILROAD COMPANY.

From the north line of McHenry county, Illinois, to Woodstock, thence to any point on the Chicago and Galena Union Railroad deemed practicable to form a junction, in the counties of Cook, Kane and McHenry. Company may form a junction with any railroad company in the counties of Kane and Cook, and may consolidate with any company now or hereafter incorporated by the state of Wisconsin. The company may also extend their road from Woodstock to Chicago, and unite or connect with any railroad company or corporation associated together in Chicago, or with any railroad company running from the south part of Illinois to Chicago, or with any company running from the east through the state of Indiana, and terminating at, or passing through Chicago.-Act of Illinois Legislature, approved Feb. 12, 1851

LA CROSSE, TREMPEALEAU AND PRESCOTT R. R. COMPANY.

Capital stock, $5,000,000. Shall be managed by eleven directors, who shall be stockholders, and possess all the powers of the corporation. Directors shall be chosen by the stockholders, and the number may be increased to fifteen. Directors may receive land or other estate, real, personal or mixed, in payment for stock; may mortgage their property to any extent, on such terms as they may think proper; may make any contract or agreement they may think proper, with any other railroad company, for the leasing or purchase of the whole or any part of said other railroad, or may lease or sell this road to any other company or persons, on such terms as they may think proper. The company may construct a road from some point in the city of La Crosse, by the way of Trempeleau and Fountain City, to Prescott, with such branches for connection with the Milwaukee and La Crosse Company, as the company shall determine: provided, this company shall not connect with the western division of said Milwaukee and La Crosse Road more than four miles out of the corporate limits of the city of La Crosse. The company may "connect with any other railroad in this state," and may "extend their line so far as may be necessary to make such connection," and may consolidate with such other company. The company may create any debt and issue bonds not exceeding in amount the amount of the capital stock