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. 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 said commissioners for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this act, and the act or acts to which this is in
addition; and there is accordingly hereby appropriated for the purpose
of constructing and completing said tunnel and railroad and equipping
the the same, and paying interest upon such scrip, as has been or may
be issued during the progress of the work, the unexpended balance of
the two millions of dollars authorized by chapter two hundred and
twenty-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and
referred to in chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the acts of the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-two. And the treasurer of the Commonwealth is
hereby authorized, upon the warrant of the governor drawn as aforesaid,
to issue scrip or certificates of debt to the amount of said
appropriation, which shall be expressed in such currency and shall bear
such rate of interest as the governor and council may direct, and shall
be redeemable at the end of thirty years from the date thereof: and said
treasurer shall sell or otherwise dispose of the same as he may deem
proper, subject to the approval of the governor and council.
SECT. 3. Said commissioners', and their successors in office, shall be
removable by the governor, with the advice of the council, and in case
of any vacancy occasioned by death; resignation or removal, such vacancy
shall be filled by appointment of the governor, with the advice of the
council; and said commissioners shall, once in three months, and oftener
if required, present to the governor and council an account of all
contracts entered into by them as such commissioners, and of all
payments and charges by them made, by virtue of their commission, with
their vouchers therefore, which vouchers and accounts shall be examined,
and if found correct, and in good faith, shall be allowed by the
governor and council; but no lease of any part of said railroad, nor any
contract amounting to more than ten thousand dollars shall be made by
said commissioners without the of the governor and council.
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