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Aggregate length Air Line appeal bonds brakeman bridge Bridgeport Canaan Capital stock authorized cent Colchester construction County crossings at grade Danbury Danbury & Norwalk depot directors East Hartford engine Fairfield County grade crossings gross earnings Harlem River Hartford & Conn Hartford Railroad Company Haven & Derby Haven & Hartford Haven & Northampton Hawleyville highway crossings Housatonic Housatonic Railroad Included in N. Y. injured land last report lease Length of track locomotives London Northern main line Meriden Miles run mortgage Naugatuck Railroad Norwich Notary Public Number of highway Number of passenger Number of spans Number of stations Number of stockholders operating expenses paid pany parties passenger cars passenger train petition Providence & Boston Railroad Commissioners repairs Ridgefield selectmen September 30 South Manchester South Norwalk Southport Stamford statute Stock issued Street Superior Court thereof tion Treasurer Watertown & Waterbury whistle William D Willimantic
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Page 21 - ... prescribing the terms and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into effect, the name of the new corporation, the number and names of the directors and other officers thereof, and who shall be the first directors and officers, and their places of residence, the number of shares of the...
Page 8 - ... have a lien upon such animals for food, care, and custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any detention of such animals.
Page 8 - In estimating such confinement the time consumed in loading and unloading shall not be considered, but the time during which the animals have been confined without such rest or food or water on connecting roads shall be included, it being the intent of this act to prohibit their continuous confinement beyond the period of twenty-eight hours, except upon the contingencies hereinbefore stated...
Page 3 - No County, City, Town, Borough, or other municipality, shall ever subscribe to the capital stock of any railroad corporation, or become a purchaser of the bonds, or make donation to, or loan its credit, directly or indirectly, in aid of any such corporation; but nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any bonds or debts incurred under existing laws, nor be construed to prohibit the General Assembly from authorizing any Town or City to protect by additional appropriations of money or...
Page 34 - ... therein alleging that public safety requires an alteration in such crossing, its approaches, the method of crossing, the location of the highway or crossing, the closing of a highway crossing and the substitution of another therefor, not at grade, or the removal of obstructions to the site of such crossing, and praying that the same may be ordered...
Page 192 - The proposition which these recognised cases suggest, and which is, therefore, to be deduced from them, is that whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position with regard to another that everyone of ordinary sense who did think would at once recognise that if he did not use ordinary care and skill in his own conduct with regard to those circumstances he would cause danger of injury to the person or property of the other, a duty arises to use ordinary care and skill to avoid such...
Page 64 - Willimantic Railroad Company, the Shepaug Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Company, the Connecticut Central Railroad Company, or either of them, to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed for by it in any of said companies; but such bonds or stock, when their avails shall have been expended in the construction of any of said railroads, shall be assessed and taxed in the manner provided in section 2424.
Page 18 - Each subscriber to such articles of association shall subscribe thereto his name, place of residence, and the number of shares of stock he agrees to take in said company. On compliance with the provisions of the...
Page 31 - ... the convenience and safety of the public travel upon said turnpike, highway or street may require; but the railroad commissioners may, upon due notice to said company and to the selectmen of the town or mayor of the city in which said crossing is situated, direct such company or trustee to construct its railroad at such a crossing upon a level with the turnpike, highway, or street...
Page 4 - Every such policeman shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a shield bearing the words 'railroad police