APPENDIX A.

EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE KANSAS CITY, GALVESTON, AND LAKE
SUPERIOR RAILROAD COMPANY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows :

Src. 1. That a Company is hereby incorporated, to be called the Kansas City,
Galveston, and Lake Superior Railroad Company, the stock whereof shall be six millions
of dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, the holders whereof,
their successors or assigns, shall constitute and be a body corporate and politic, in law
and in fact, by the name and style aforesaid, and by that name shall have perpetual
succession ; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended against ;
may make and use a common seal, and break and change the same, and shall be able,
in law and equity, to make contracts; may make, hold, use, possess, and enjoy the fee-
simple, or other titles, in and to any real estate, and may sell and dispose of the same ;
may make by-laws, rules and regulations proper for carrying into effect the provisions of
this Act, not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of this State,

and shall have the usual and necessary powers of corporation for such purposes.
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§ 7. Said Company shall have full power to survey, mark, locate, construct, maintain,
and operate a railroad from the City of Kansas, in Jackson County, by the most direct
and practicable route in the direction of Galveston, in the State of Texas, or to intersect
any road or roads now being constructed, or to be constructed, by the States of Texas or
Arkansas, or by any company or companies, which are or may be chartered by either or
both of said States; also, to construct said railroad north from the City of Kansas,
or from the north bank of the Missouri River, opposite said City of Kansas, by the most
direct and practicable route to the north boundary of the State, in the direction of Fon
du Lac on Lake Superior; and for that purpose may hold a strip of land not exceeding
one hundred feet in width, with as many tracks as the said President and Directors may
deem necessary ; Provided, that in passing hills or valleys, the said Company are author-
ized to extend said width, in order to effect said object, and may, also, hold sufficient
land for the erection of depots, warehouses, and water stations, and may select such
route as may be deemed most advantageous, and may extend branch railroads to any

point in any of the counties through which the said railroad may be located.
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§ 11. Said Company may build said road along or across any State or county road,
or street or wall of any town or city, or over any stream or highway; but whenever