By the second section the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was authorized to surrender to the State the property mortgaged. By the third section the commissioners were authorized to audit and allow all just claims for labor, service, materials and land damages incurred between April 6, 1860 and July 12, 1861, in carrying on the work, and to procure the release and discharge of all attachments and liens upon said materials. $175,000 was appropriated to pay the claimants under the approval of the governor and council. By the fourth section the commissioners were authorized to use or run that portion of the road east of the mountain or lease the same to the "Vermont and Massachusetts," the "Fitchburg," the "Troy and Boston Railway Company," or either of them, until the completion of the tunnel. By the fifth section the commissioners were authorized to continue the work on the Hoosac Tunnel, and by contract or otherwise, to expedite its completion. On the 18th of August 1862, is recorded on the records of the corporation the following votes:-- 1. "The directors of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company hereby instruct the president to transfer to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, under the several mortgages held by said Commonwealth, all the property of said corporation. 2. "_Voted_ to call a meeting of the stockholders to see if they would ratify the above vote. 3. "_Voted_, That the treasurer be directed to make no further delivery of the stock or bonds to the contractors without the written order of all the finance committee." At the commencement of the session of the legislature in January, 1863, his Excellency Governor Andrew, after stating the general provisions of the Act of April, 1862, and the appointment of the commissioners under it, "each of whom was carefully selected as being, in the words of the Act, at once 'able, impartial and skilful,'" and after alluding to the labors of the commissioners, and the reports of the distinguished engineers appointed to "assist them, closes his remarks upon the enterprise in the following words:--