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. 4. The preceding sections shall be in lieu of and be substituted
for sections two and three of chapter two hundred and twenty-six of the
acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the
second section of said act is hereby repealed.
SECT. 5. The time for completing the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and
Hoosac Tunnel, is hereby extended until December thirty-first, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
SECT. 6. Subscriptions, the instalments upon which are payable in cash,
or in the scrip of the towns authorized to subscribe to the stock of the
Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, under the provisions of chapter
three hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five, shall be considered as unconditional
subscriptions, in compliance with the requirements of this act; and
payment in the bonds of said towns shall be considered as cash.
SECT. 7. This act shall take effect, whenever said company shall file,
in the office of the secretary of state, a certified copy of any vote or
votes accepting the same, which may be passed at any regular meeting of
the stockholders of said company, or at any meeting specially called for
that purpose.
_Approved March 26, 1859._
[1860.--Chapter 202.]
AN ACT in addition to an Act authorizing a loan of the State Credit to
enable the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company to construct the Hoosac
Tunnel.
_Be it enacted, &c., as follows:_
SECT. 1. The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company shall forthwith make
and file in the proper offices a location of their entire road and
tunnel, which location shall be made on that side or sides of the
Deerfield River which will afford the most direct and eligible route
between the village of Shelburne Falls and a suitable terminus in the
town of Deerfield or Greenfield, to be determined by the state engineer
appointed as hereinafter provided.
The grades of any part of the road hereafter to be constructed shall not
exceed forty feet to the mile ascending eastward, and fifty feet to the
mile ascending westward; and the limits of grade and curvature of said
road, included within said location; and not graded, shall be such that
the maximum resistance to the passage of trains, in either direction,
shall not exceed the maximum resistance in the same direction on the
Fitchburg and Vermont and Massachusetts Railroads; and before any
location made by the chief engineer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad
Company shall be filed, a copy of the alignment and a table of grades,
verified by the oath of said engineer, shall be submitted to a state
engineer appointed as hereinafter provided, who shall certify that the
limits of grade and curvature herein before prescribed have not been
exceeded, and the said table of grades so certified shall be filed with
the location.
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