Mt. Moosilauke (1889) - An Act to Incorporate The Moosilauke Railroad Co.
"SECTION 1. That Ira Whitcher, Benjamin E. Brown, Edward F. Mann, Albert B. Woodworth, Edward B. Woodworth, Charles F. Keene, Daniel Q. Clement, Ezra B. Mann, John F. Thayer, George L. Head, and Frederick P. Weeks, their associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Moosilauke Railroad Co., with all the rights and privileges and subject to all the liabilities, duties, and restrictions in the General Laws relating to railroad corporations.SECT. 2. The Moosilauke Railroad Company is hereby entitled and empowered to locate, construct, and maintain a railroad not exceeding six rods in width, with necessary additions for excavations and embankments, from some convenient point on the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, in the towns of Warren or Benton, to the top of Mount Moosilauke, and to extend the same to some point in the town of Woodstock, to connect with the Pemigewasset Valley Railroad.
SECT. 3. The capital stock of said Moosilauke Railroad Company shall consist of and shall not exceed one thousand shares of the par value of one hundred dollars, with the right to issue certificates, mortgages, or other forms of indebtedness for any deficiency incurred in construction or equipment, and to establish a sinking fund for the redemption of the same; and a toll is hereby granted to said corporation upon all persons and property which may be transported, at such rates as may be determined from time to time by the board of directors, which shall consist of seven persons, and who shall be chosen annually. . . ."
From "Moosilauke Railroad," pp. 455-468, The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol.2). ©1999.
