LOCAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, PASSED AT THE THIRTIETH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEGUN ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN DECEMBER, 1845. BY AUTHORITY. INDIANAPOLIS: J. P. CHAPMAN, STATE PRINTER. 1846. LAWS OF A LOCAL NATURE. CHAPTER I. An Act to incorporate the Logansport and Rochester Michigan Road Company. [APPROVED JANUARY 15, 1846.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That John W. Wright, Joseph Penrose, James Troutman, and Peter Anderson, of the county of Cass, and James Moore, Adam Pence, Alexander Chamberlain, and Ebenezer Ward, of the county of Fulton, and their associates and successors in office be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of constructing a plank or McAdamized road on the present track of the Michigan road, from Logansport, in Cass county, to Rochester, in Fulton county, to be known as the "Logansport and Rochester Michigan Road Company ;" and by that name they, and their successors, shall have perpetual succession, and may take, purchase and hold, to them and their successors, in fee simple or any less estate, any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and also, any personal estate which may be necessary for the efficient prosecution of the object contemplated by this act; and shall be capable by their corporate name aforesaid, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, in all courts of competent jurisdiction, and shall have and use a common seal, and the same to break, change or renew at pleasure: Provided, That the stock, funds, and property of said company shall be applied to no other use or purpose than is provided for by this act. SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of ten dollars each; and said |