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FORTY-NIN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 315. 1887. 489 age of business done, constructive mileage, monthly or other payments on any pooling or rate arrangement, contract, or agreement; and also to inquire into, ascertain,' and report as to the kind, character, and amount of the assets of said companies, and what assets of each com pany are now ‘ subject to the lien of the Government, and the value thereof; and also whether any dividends have been unlawfully declared by tue directors or paid to the stockholders of said companies, and, if so, to what extent, and whether the amount thereof may not be recovered from the directors unlawfully declaring the same or persons who have unlawfully received the same; whether the proceeds of any trust funds or lands loaned, advanced, or granted have been diverted from their lawful use; whether any new stock or bonds have been issued or any guarantees or _ pledges made contrary to or without authority of law; whether any of the directors, ofncers, or employees of said companies respectively have been or are now directly or indirectly interested, and to what amount or extent, in any other railroad, steamship, telegraph, express, mining, construction, or other business company or corporation, and with which · any agreements, undertakings, or leases have been made or entered into; what amounts of money or credit have been or are now loaned by any of said companies to any person or corporation; what amounts of money or credit have been orare now borrowed by any of said companies, giving names of lenders and the purposes for which said sums have been or are now required; what amounts of money or other valuable consideration, such as stocks, bonds, passes, and so forth, have been expended or paid out by said companies, whether for lawful or unlawful purposes, but for which sunicient and detailed vouchers have not been given or nled with the records of said companies ; aud, further, to enquire and report whether said companies, or either of them, or their ofncers or agents, have paid any money or other valuable consideration, or done any other act or thing, for the purpose of innuencing - legislation; and to investigate and report all the facts relating to an alleged consolidation of the Union Pacino Railroad Company, the Kan- Consolidation of sas Pacino Railway Company, and the Denver Pacino Railway and Tele- UH i on Pac i_ii c, U graph Company into an alleged corporation known as the Union Pacino K“5';‘:‘ P if *3,** Railway Company. Said investigation shall include the alleged sale of $,,-,1 xg? Zim'; the stock of the Kansas Pacino Railroad Company to the Union Pacino panics. Railroad Company, and all the circumstances and particulars pertain- · ing to said alleged sale, and whether any of the Pacino railroad corporations which obtained bonds from the United States to aid in the construction of their railroads have expended any of their moneys or other assets in the construction, or to aid in the construction, of other railroads, or invested of their moneys or other assets in the stocks or bonds of any manufacturing, mining, and commercial companies or corporations, or of other railroad corporations; and if any such expenditures or investments have been made, the extent and character thereof made by each of said corporations shall be inquired into, and also the present interest of any of said corporations in the railroads auxiliary to their respective railroads. And said commission shall also ascertain and report the names of all Names of stockthe stockholders in each of said companies, from its organization to the holdem, ew-, W be date of the investigation herein provided for, as they appear on the "P°"°°d• books of said companies at the date of its annual meeting in each year; the amount of stock held by each ; what consideration, if any, was paid by each stockholder to said company for his stock, and when and in what proper ty such payment was made; the date when each stockholder so appearing on the books became such; and whether stock is now held orhas heretofore been held in the name of any person in trust or for the benent of any other, and the names of all such persons; the total amount of the stock in each company, and the dates and amount of any increase of such stock, and the reason for such increase; and the amount of the annual salaries or compensation that are now or at any prior time have been paid to any officer or employee of said company,