ISBN: 9781153831451

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... By an act of the legislature of Florida, approved January 18, 1872, the name of the Florida Railroad Company was changed to the Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company, continuing the rights, franchises, privileges, etc., the same as if no change had been made. By section 4 of the act of December 14, 1855, amending the charter of the Florida Railroad Company, it was provided: That the president and directors of the Florida Railroad Company may set off any portion of their line to persons desirous of constructing the same, and in that event such portion may have a distinct organization, with all the grants, rights, powera duties, and privileges conferred on the Florida Railroad Company, with the right tfl adopt a different name, in order to beep the stock account and liabilities separate. Acting under this authority, the Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company, by proper assignment set off and gave authority to the Peninsular Railroad Company to build that part of the road from Waldo to Ocala, a distance 44.88 miles, and on July 1,1882, the governor of the State of Florida made the following certificate to the Secretary of the Interior: Sir: I have the honor to certify that the railroad from Waldo to Ocala, in the State of Florida, being a part of the line of railroad from Amelia Island, on the Atlantic, to the waters of Tampa Bay, specified in the act of Congress approved May 17, 1856, and entitled An act granting public lauds in alternate sections to the States of Florida and Alabama to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said States, has been completed, and is in actual operation, and that said railroad from Waldo to Ocala is of a continuous length of 44.88 miles. Acting under the authority conferred by section 4 of the a United States. Dept. of the Interior, Books, Reference and Language, Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands (Volume 270-281) Books>Reference and Language, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153831451

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... By an act of the legislature of Florida, approved January 18, 1872, the name of the Florida Railroad Company was changed to the Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company, continuing the rights, franchises, privileges, etc., the same as if no change had been made. By section 4 of the act of December 14, 1855, amending the charter of the Florida Railroad Company, it was provided: That the president and directors of the Florida Railroad Company may set off any portion of their line to persons desirous of constructing the same, and in that event such portion may have a distinct organization, with all the grants, rights, powera duties, and privileges conferred on the Florida Railroad Company, with the right tfl adopt a different name, in order to beep the stock account and liabilities separate. Acting under this authority, the Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company, by proper assignment set off and gave authority to the Peninsular Railroad Company to build that part of the road from Waldo to Ocala, a distance 44.88 miles, and on July 1,1882, the governor of the State of Florida made the following certificate to the Secretary of the Interior: Sir: I have the honor to certify that the railroad from Waldo to Ocala, in the State of Florida, being a part of the line of railroad from Amelia Island, on the Atlantic, to the waters of Tampa Bay, specified in the act of Congress approved May 17, 1856, and entitled An act granting public lauds in alternate sections to the States of Florida and Alabama to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said States, has been completed, and is in actual operation, and that said railroad from Waldo to Ocala is of a continuous length of 44.88 miles. Acting under the authority conferred by section 4 of the a United States. Dept. of the Interior, Books, Reference and Language, Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands (Volume 270-281) Books>Reference and Language <