APPENDIX A. EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE KANSAS CITY, GALVESTON, AND LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD COMPANY. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: SEC. 1. That a Company is hereby incorporated, to be called the Kansas City, Galveston, and Lake Superior Railroad Company, the stock whereof shall be six millions of dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, the holders whereof, their successors or assigns, shall constitute and be a body corporate and politic, in law and in fact, by the name and style aforesaid, and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended against; may make and use a common seal, and break and change the same, and shall be able, in law and equity, to make contracts; may make, hold, use, possess, and enjoy the feesimple, or other titles, in and to any real estate, and may sell and dispose of the same; may make by-laws, rules and regulations proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of this State, and shall have the usual and necessary powers of corporation for such purposes. § 7. Said Company shall have full power to survey, inark, locate, construct, maintain, and operate a railroad from the City of Kansas, in Jackson County, by the most direct and practicable route in the direction of Galveston, in the State of Texas, or to intersect any road or roads now being constructed, or to be constructed, by the States of Texas or Arkansas, or by any company or companies, which are or may be chartered by either or both of said States; also, to construct said railroad north from the City of Kansas, or from the north bank of the Missouri River, opposite said City of Kansas, by the most direct and practicable route to the north boundary of the State, in the direction of Fon du Lac on Lake Superior; and for that purpose may hold a strip of land not exceeding one hundred feet in width, with as many tracks as the said President and Directors may deem necessary; Provided, that in passing hills or valleys, the said Company are authorized to extend said width, in order to effect said object, and may, also, hold sufficient land for the erection of depots, warehouses, and water stations, and may select such route as may be deemed most advantageous, and may extend branch railroads to any point in any of the counties through which the said railroad may be located. § 11. Said Company may build said road along or across any State or county road, or street or wall of any town or city, or over any stream or highway; but whenever said railroad shall cross any State or county road, said Company shall keep good and sufficient causeways or other adequate facilities for crossing the same; and said railroad shall not be so constructed as to prevent the public from using any street, road, or highway, along or across which it may pass; and when said railroad shall be built across any navigable stream, said Company shall erect a bridge sufficiently high on which to cross, or shall construct a drawbridge, so that in no case shall the free navigation of such stream be obstructed. When any person shall own land on both sides of said road, said Company, when required so to do, shall make, and keep in good repair, one causeway or other adequate means of crossing the same. § 16. Said Company shall have power to extend, construct, maintain, and operate their said railroad or branches, beyond the limits of this State, and are hereby authorized to make contracts for the same, and shall have power to contract for, and construct, all necessary bridges over navigable streams, so the same may in nowise interfere with the free navigation of the same. This Act to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1857. APPENDIX B. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE KANSAS CITY BRIDGE COMPANY. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: SEC. 1. That R. T. Van Horn, M. J. Paine, A. J. Lloyd, and David E. James, their associates, assigns, and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Kansas City Bridge Company, and shall have the exclusive right and privilege of constructing a bridge at or near the City of Kansas, over and across the Missouri River, for the term of twenty years, and no other person or company whatsoever shall construct any other bridge for or within the distance of one mile from said bridge during the term of said twenty years, and said Company, by their corporate name, shall be capable in law of purchasing, taking, holding, using, selling, pledging, conveying, and disposing of real estate or other property, whether personal or mixed, so far as the same may be necessary for the purposes herein mentioned; may have a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended against, contract and be contracted with; may make such by-laws, rules and regulations, appoint such officers, agents, and servants, and generally do all such acts and things not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the State of Missouri, and of the United States, as may be requisite and proper for the due execution and management of the work herein proposed to be done and for conducting the business of said Company. § 2. All the powers of said corporation shall be exercised by a board of directors and such officers and agents as they may elect and appoint. Said board shall consist of nine directors, who shall be elected annually by a majority in interest of the stockholders, present and voting, in person or by proxy, at such time and place as shall be prescribed by the by-laws, and who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Previous to such election the corporators herein named shall constitute the board of directors, three of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business. They may at any time after the passage of this Act cause books to be opened for subscriptions to the capital stock of the said Company at such times and places, and in such manner, as may be by them prescribed. § 3. The capital stock of said Company shall be one million of dollars, which shall be divided into ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, and when two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be subscribed the corporators shall call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of electing a board of directors, at such time and place as |