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
of tunnel as above, another portion of said scrip, amounting to twenty
thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid; and whenever said
company, in addition to the above, shall have excavated, in one or more
sections, one thousand lineal feet of heading as aforesaid, and shall
have graded nine miles of road, in location and otherwise as aforesaid,
between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, another portion of said scrip,
to the amount of eighty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as
aforesaid; and whenever said company, in addition to the above nine
miles of graded road, shall have excavated five thousand feet of tunnel
as aforesaid, another portion of said scrip, amounting to twenty
thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid; and whenever said
company shall have excavated, in one or more sections, one thousand
lineal feet of heading as aforesaid, in addition to the five thousand
feet of tunnel above specified, and shall have graded the road between
Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, crossing the Green River upon the
present location, or at a point north thereof, another portion of said
scrip, amounting to eighty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as
aforesaid; and whenever said company, in addition to the grading of the
road between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls as aforesaid, shall have
excavated six thousand feet of tunnel as aforesaid, another portion of
said scrip, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as
aforesaid; and whenever in addition to the grading and tunnel above
specified, the said company shall have excavated as aforesaid, one
thousand lineal feet of heading, another portion of said scrip, to the
amount of thirty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid; and
whenever in addition to the grading above specified, the said company
shall have excavated seven thousand feet of tunnel as aforesaid, another
portion of said scrip, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, shall
be delivered as aforesaid; and for each additional thousand feet of
heading that shall be excavated of dimensions as aforesaid, another
portion of said scrip, amounting to thirty thousand dollars, shall be
delivered as aforesaid; and for each additional one thousand feet of
tunnel that shall be excavated of dimensions as aforesaid, another
portion of said scrip, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, shall be
delivered as aforesaid; and whenever said company shall have completed
the graduation and superstructure of the road between Greenfield and
Shelburne Falls, on the route herein before specified, and shall have
put the same in running order, another portion of said scrip, to the
amount of forty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid; and
whenever said company, in addition to the road between Greenfield and
Shelburne Falls above specified, shall have completed the graduation and
superstructure of two continuous miles of road, commencing at the
western termination of the above road, another portion of said scrip,
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