Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.Wentworth, Tappan
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Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.
Wentworth, Tappan
Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.); Railroad tunnels -- Massachusetts; Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company
SECT. 2. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the
governor and council, that the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company
shall have obtained subscriptions to their corporate stock, in the sum
of six hundred thousand dollars, and twenty per cent. on each and every
share of said six hundred thousand dollars shall have been actually paid
in, and shall have completed seven miles of their said railroad, in one
or two sections, and one thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel under
the Hoosac, in one or more sections, of size sufficient for one or more
railroad tracks, a portion of said scrip, to the amount of one hundred
thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company;
and when said company shall have completed, in one or two sections, ten
miles of their said railroad, and two thousand lineal feet of their said
tunnel, in one or more sections, another portion of said scrip, to the
amount of one hundred thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the
treasurer of said company; and when said company shall have completed
fifteen miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and three
thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections,
another portion of said scrip, amounting to one hundred thousand
dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company; and when
said company shall have completed twenty miles of their said railroad,
in one or two sections, and four thousand lineal feet of their said
tunnel, in one or more sections, another portion of said scrip,
amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the
treasurer of said company; and when said company shall have completed
twenty-five miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and
five thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections,
another portion of said scrip, amounting to one hundred thousand
dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company; and when
said company shall have completed thirty miles of their said railroad,
in one or two sections, and six thousand lineal feet of their said
tunnel, in one or more sections, another portion of said scrip,
amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the
treasurer of said company; and when said company shall have completed
thirty-two miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections,
including all their line to be constructed east of the town of Florida,
and seven thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more
sections, another portion of said scrip, amounting to one hundred
thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company;
and for each additional portion or portions of said tunnel, of fifteen
hundred lineal feet, in one or more directions, completed by said
company, another portion of said scrip, amounting to one hundred
thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company;
subject, however, to this proviso, that the last two hundred thousand
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