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. 7. The governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the
treasurer of the Commonwealth, for such sums as may be required from
time to time by the commissioners for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this act, and the amount of the same is hereby
appropriated therefore; and the treasurer of the Commonwealth is hereby
authorized to issue scrip, or certificates of debts, in the name and in
behalf of the Commonwealth, to an extent sufficient to secure the
required funds, which scrip shall bear such rate of interest, as is
allowed at the time on state scrip issued for other purposes, and shall
be redeemable at the end of thirty years from the date thereof; and he
shall sell or otherwise use the same at his discretion, to procure the
sum necessary to meet the payments in this act provided: provided, that
all expenditures and advances made under and by virtue of this act,
shall be on account, and form part of the two millions of dollars,
authorized to be loaned in state scrip to the Troy and Greenfield
Railroad Company by chapter two hundred and twenty-six of the acts of
eighteen hundred and fifty-four; and said expenditures and advances,
together with all sums hitherto advanced to said company, excepting the
sums advanced on account of the "Southern Vermont Railroad," shall not
exceed in amount the said two millions of dollars. Such changes may be
made in the location and grades of the road, as may be necessary to
improve the same; and no lease shall be made of the portion of the road
east of the tunnel for a term exceeding six years; nor shall such
portion be constructed without the approval of the governor and council.
SECT. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby
repealed.
SECT. 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
_Approved April 28, 1862._
[1863.--Chapter 214.]
AN ACT in addition to "an Act providing for the more speedy completion
of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel."
_Be it enacted, &c., as follows:_
SECT. 1. The commissioners appointed under the one hundred and
fifty-sixth chapter of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, are
hereby authorized, subject to the advice and approval of the governor
and council, to construct, complete and equip the Troy and Greenfield
Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel; and to make such alterations in the line of
said road as may be deemed necessary to render it suitable and proper
for part of a thorough line from Troy to Boston; also such alterations
in the location and dimensions of said tunnel as will render it suitable
and proper for use, in accordance with the spirit and intent of the two
hundred and twenty-sixth chapter of the acts of eighteen hundred and
fifty-four.
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