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CHAP. XIX.]
RAILROADS.
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Joseph Lemay shall forfeit a sam not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered by a civil action before any court having competent jurisdiction.

Sect. 6. Any person who shall sustain any injury, by the negligence of the said Joseph Lemay, or any ferryman in his employ, may have remedy on the bond required by this act.

Sect. 7. The legislature may at any time alter, amend, or modify, or repeal this act.

Sect. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 30, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.





RAILROADS.




CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MISSOURIAND NIOBRARA VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

Section 1. That the persons hereinafter named in section thirteen (13) of this act be, and the same are hereby, made and constituted a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Missouri and Nioblara Valley Railroad Company, with perpetual succession, and by that name and style shall be capable in law of taking, purchasing, holding, leasing, selling, and conveying real and personal estate and property, so far as the same may be necessary for the purposes hereinafter mentioned; and in their said corporate name to sue and be sued, to have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at pleasure; to have a capital stock of two millions of dollars, to be divided into shares of dollars each, which