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
amounting to eighty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid;
and for the graduation and superstructure of each additional mile of
road, graded and laid continuously through either of the towns of
Buckland, Charlemont, Rowe or Florida, another portion of said scrip,
amounting to twenty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid:
_provided_, that when the rails shall have been laid and the road put in
running order, between Greenfield and the east end of the Hoosac Tunnel,
excepting that portion of the road which is to be made from the material
to be furnished by the tunnel itself, another portion of said scrip,
amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, shall be delivered as
aforesaid: and _provided_, _also_, that whenever the aggregate amount of
scrip that shall have been delivered to the treasurer of said company
shall have reached the sum of one million seven hundred thousand
dollars, no further delivery of scrip shall be made until the whole of
the tunnel through the Hoosac Mountain shall have been completed, of
size not less than fourteen feet in width and eighteen feet in height
from the bottom to the top of the excavation, and until the facades of
the said tunnel and such portions as may require arching shall be
finished with good substantial stone or brick masonry, and until the
rails shall have been laid over the whole length of the road, including
the tunnel, and the same constructed in such manner, and the necessary
connections with other roads 80 finished, as will permit the convenient
use of the same in the transportation of passengers and freight between
the cities of Boston and Troy; but when such connections shall have been
made, the tunnel fully completed and the road constructed as herein
before provided, the balance of said scrip, amounting to three hundred
thousand dollars, shall be delivered as aforesaid: and _provided_,
_also_, that until the rails shall have been laid and the road put in
running order between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, the aggregate
payments under this act shall not exceed one million of dollars: and
_provided_, _also_, that prior to the second delivery of scrip to the
treasurer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Corporation, according to
the provisions of this section, evidence shall be furnished,
satisfactory to the governor and council, that a sum equal to thirty per
cent. of the amount of the scrip then applied for, shall have been
actually paid to the treasurer of said corporation, (in cash,) by the
stockholders thereof, in addition to the one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars to be paid prior to the delivery of any scrip, and that on each
application for scrip, in pursuance of the provisions of this section,
and prior to the delivery thereof, satisfactory evidence shall be
furnished to the governor and council that a sum equal to thirty per
cent. of the amount of scrip then' applied for, has been actually paid
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