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00 Number 00 Total Aggregate length amount paid articles of association Average number Average rate Average ton haul Battle Creek Bay City brakeman bridges Capital stock carelessness cent charter or articles Chicago Commissioner of Railroads couplers Coupling cars crossings of highways December 31 Detroit earnings per mile earnings per train East Saginaw Employés expenses and taxes express companies feet freight cars Freight train Grand Rapids Grand Trunk Railway iron Kalamazoo Lansing length of road Main line Manistee Manistee River Michigan Central Railroad mile of road mileage Miles run Notary Public Number of crossings Number of locomotives Number of passenger Number of persons Number of stockholders operating expenses passenger cars Passenger train Pere Marquette Railroad power brakes Proportion for Michigan Railroad Company Repairs road belonging stock and debt Toledo Total earnings Total funded debt Total miles Total passenger track in Michigan traffic train mile Transportation earnings Trespassers unfunded debt York City
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Page 174 - What express companies run on your road, and ou what terms, and what conditions as to rates, etc. ; what kind of business is done by them, and do you take their freights at the depot, or at the office of such express companies ? American Express Co.
Page 397 - Company, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he has caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this Company, and having carefully examined the same, declares them to be a true, full, and...
Page lxxi - Such agreement of the directors shall not be deemed to be the agreement of the said two or more corporations, until after it has been submitted to the stockholders of each of said corporations separately at a meeting thereof; to be called upon a notice of at least...
Page lxxi - ... prescribing the terms and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the number...
Page lxx - Corporations into shares in such new Corporation, with such other details as they shall deem necessary to perfect such consolidation of said Corporations ; and such new Corporation shall possess all the powers, rights, and franchises conferred upon such two or more Corporations, and shall be subject to all the restrictions, and perform all the duties imposed by the provisions of their respective charters or laws of organization, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Page 439 - State upon its gross receipts, have you paid car mileage or car rentals for the use of such cars, while in use for traffic between local points in this State, and what was the amount of such car rental or mileage...
Page lxxii - ... in person or by proxy, each share of capital stock being entitled to one vote; and when such agreement of the directors has been so sanctioned by each of the meetings of the stockholders separately...
Page 433 - Michigan, additional track Total length of branches owned by company Total length of branches owned by company in...
Page lxii - ... go to the informer and the other half to the county; and the corporation shall also be liable for all damages which shall be sustained by any person by reason of such neglect.
Page 161 - ... and the several acts amendatory thereof, or of some railroad company incorporated and doing business under the laws of some other state or province, shall be liable to pay taxes upon the gross receipts or revenue derived as car mileage or car rentals for the use of such cars while in use for traffic between local points in this state, and from all sums received from passengers as additional charges to the regular fare for the occupancy of any palace, drawing-room, sleeping, parlor, chair, or...