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 FIRST MORTGAGE UNTAXABLE 
 
 SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS, 
 
 HAYING THIRTY YEARS TO RUN—INTEREST COUPONS 
 PAYABLE SEMI-ANNUALLY AT METROPOLITAN 
 NATIONAL BANK, NEW YORK. 
 
 Sgtitfs. 
 
 WINSLOW, LANIER & CO., 27 Pine St., New York. 
 RICHARDSON, HILL & CO., Sears’ Building, Boston. 
 WM. L. GILBERT, Treasurer, West Winsted, Conn. 
 
 HARTFORD: 
 
 CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD, PRINTERS. 
 
 1871. 
 
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 "Cljt Coiuu'ttinit SttUsterit ^Riulroai) Compitg. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Hon. WM. H. BARNUM, M. 0., Lime Rock, Conn. 
 GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, Hartford, “ 
 
 Ex Gov. A. H. HOLLEY, Lakeville, “ 
 
 GEO. H. BROWN, Mill Brook, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
 FREDERICK WATSON, Canaan, Conn. 
 
 EGBERT T. BUTLER, Norfolk, “ 
 
 GEORGE DUDLEY, West Winsted, Conn. 
 
 WM. L. GILBERT, “ “ “ 
 
 NATHANIEL B. STEVENS, Hartford, Conn. 
 JAMES L. HOWARD, 
 
 GEORGE W. MOORE, 
 
 BYRON LOOMIS, Suffield, 
 
 03VJFICERS. 
 
 Hon. WM. H. BARNUM, President. 
 
 GEORGE M. BARTHOLOMEW, Vice President. 
 
 WM. G. COE, Winsted, Conn., Secretary. 
 
 WM. L. GILBERT, West Winsted, Conn., Treasurer. 
 WM. F. SHUNK, W. Winsted, Conn., Chief Engineer. 
 
The Connecticut Western Railroad Company was 
 chartered by the General Assembly of the State at its May 
 Session, 1868. 
 
 The Charter, hereto annexed, is liberal and comprehensive, 
 conferring certain privileges and powers not before granted 
 by the State of Connecticut; among which are those enabling 
 towns, cities and corporations to subscribe to its capital stock 
 and, by their duly elected agents, to participate in the man¬ 
 agement of the Road. 
 
 This liberal franchise was granted by the State for the reason 
 that a large section, embracing nearly all its mineral wealth 
 and many of its populous manufacturing villages, was without 
 adequate railway facilities, thereby retarding the development 
 of the former, limiting the growth and prosperity of the latter 
 and seriously crippling their energies by confinement to de¬ 
 vious and expensive freight routes. 
 
 The want of a railroad through North-western Connecticut 
 has long been felt, also, by the traveling public, who have 
 hitherto been obliged to diverge from natural and direct lines 
 to circuitous and costly ones in going East or West and to 
 points intermediate. 
 
 Eastward, the markets of Boston, Worcester, and other 
 cities have heretofore been nearly valueless to the manufactur¬ 
 ers of Western Connecticut, owing to the need of a direct 
 railway line. 
 
 The immense quantities of coal consumed in the manufac¬ 
 turing districts through which the road passes, now obtained 
 at the seaboard after various transhipments, will hereafter be 
 
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 brought from the Eastern Depots of the Pennsylvania Coal 
 Company and the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company over 
 the Connecticut Western Railroad and its connections, with¬ 
 out breaking bulk, by much shorter lines and, therefore, at 
 greatly diminished expense. 
 
 Cattle, lumber, grain and flour have ruled higher, hereto¬ 
 fore, in Western Connecticut than in any other part of New 
 England. On the opening of the Connecticut Western Rail¬ 
 road this section will have direct communication with Albany 
 and the West and these important staples must be obtained at 
 largely reduced cost. 
 
 The heavy manufacturing and mining interests upon the 
 line of the road may be relied on to furnish at once a hand¬ 
 some local business; this, with the through transportation 
 which may reasonably be expected, can hardly fail to rank it 
 speedily among the most important and profitable thorough¬ 
 fares of New England. 
 
 Facts and considerations of this kind, obvious to the intelli¬ 
 gent communities directly concerned in the enterprise, needed 
 no argument for their support. Hence it was a comparatively 
 easy matter to obtain liberal subscriptions to the capital stock 
 and to perfect an organization. 
 
 The Company organized in July, 1868. A Board of thirteen 
 Directors was elected, composed of the most substantial and 
 trusted citizens on the line of the road, and engineers were 
 immediately put in the field. 
 
 That the best possible route might be obtained, nearly a 
 year was spent in surveys, and it is believed that the grades, 
 curvature and general alignment of the road cannot be 
 materially improved. 
 
 The town subscriptions are as follows : 
 
 Hartford .... $750,000 Bloomfield .... $42,300 
 
 Simsbury.... 50,000 Canton. 40,000 
 
 Winchester. . . 116,000 Norfolk. 41,500 
 
 Canaan . . . 34,000 Salisbury. 50,000 
 
 The entire capital stock, nearly every dollar of which is 
 owned on the line of the road, is $1,650,000. Instalments to 
 the amount of $1,575,760 have been paid in and the balance 
 is unquestionably good. 
 
The Engineer’s estimated cost of grading, masonry, and 
 bridging, based upon the preliminary surveys, was $1,500,000 ; 
 the correctness of the estimate has been confirmed by a careful 
 recast after the completion of more than nine tenths of the 
 work—a fact creditable alike to the Engineer and the officers 
 of the road. 
 
 The whole road bed is now nearly ready for the rails, the 
 cross ties are delivered, and the work is in such a state of for¬ 
 wardness that trains may be running by mid-summer. 
 
 The Eastern terminus is at the City of Hartford, where it 
 connects with roads running North, East and South, and with 
 the Connecticut river boats. 
 
 The first station west of Hartford is at Bloomfield, five miles 
 distant. This is a suburban village of Hartford and will ulti¬ 
 mately become a place of no inconsiderable importance in 
 numbers and business. 
 
 Tariffville, twelve miles from Hartford, is the next station* 
 Here were located the large works of the Hartford Carpet 
 Company, upon the best water power, probably, in New Eng- 
 , land. Since their destruction by fire, a few years since, they 
 have not been rebuilt, mainly owing to a want of proper rail¬ 
 way facilities ; but the unequaled water-power in and near 
 this village, its central location and accessibility from the great 
 markets, East and West, by way of the Connecticut Wes¬ 
 tern Railroad, put its future growth and importance beyond 
 doubt. 
 
 The next station is at the wealthy village of Simsbury, four 
 miles from Tariffville, near which are located several mills 
 and distilleries that must receive their supplies and ship their 
 products over this road. Here, also, it intersects the line 
 of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, and a profitable 
 interchange of freights and passengers may be expected. 
 
 Three miles west of Simsbury is Farms Village Station, at 
 which point the business of a large back country will reach the 
 road. 
 
 Three miles further west is the village of Canton, the line 
 in that vicinity skirting a valuable granite quarry upon which 
 the demand for building material by towns in the Connecticut 
 Valley must be great and constant. 
 
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 Two miles beyond Canton lies the extensive manufacturing 
 village of Collinsville. At this point are located the works of 
 the celebrated Collins Company, one of the largest industrial 
 establishments in New England, employing several hundred 
 operatives in the manufacture of edge tools, steel plows, and 
 other hardware. The buildings of the Company cover many 
 acres and not less than ten thousand tons of coal are used an¬ 
 nually in their work. This Company has long deeply felt the 
 need of a western railroad line and will be among the heaviest 
 freighters over the road. 
 
 The passenger business of Collinsville is large, and its 
 future growth is certain. 
 
 Five miles north-west of Collinsville is the thriving village 
 of Pine Meadow, with the cotton mills of D. B. Smith & Co. 
 and the machine shops and tool manufactories of Chapin 
 Brothers; and one mile further west the village of New Hart¬ 
 ford, busy and rapidly growing. Here are located the cotton 
 mills of the Greenwoods Company, employing several hundred 
 operatives, the Greenwoods Scythe Company’s works, and 
 other manufacturing establishments. At this point business 
 centres from Pleasant Yalley, Barkhamsted, and adjoining 
 towns. 
 
 Six miles west is the borough of Winsted, the northern termi¬ 
 nus of the Naugatuck Railroad, and the largest and most im¬ 
 portant town in north-western Connecticut. Its water-power 
 is magnificent and unfailing, and its growth rapid. There are 
 no less than twenty manufacturing establishments in full ope¬ 
 ration, mostly engaged in the making of heavy iron goods, 
 consuming immense quantities of coal, and promising to 
 furnish the road a large amount of its most desirable tonnage. 
 
 The mercantile interest of Winsted is greatly in excess of 
 any town of its size in the State, being supported by a circuit 
 of country embracing many thrifty villages and a large and 
 wealthy population. 
 
 Several important stage lines center at this point, and the 
 Farmington Yalley Railroad, chartered by the Legislature of 
 Massachusetts, now organized and surveyed, will make it its 
 southern terminus. 
 
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 For the accommodation of Winchester, Goshen, and South 
 Norfolk, a station will be located five miles west of Winsted, 
 and four miles beyond is the village of Norfolk. The beauty 
 of its scenery and healthful location have long made it de^ 
 sirable for summer residence; with railway facilities it will 
 undoubtedly become a popular place of resort. Its water¬ 
 power is abundant and enduring, already utilized to a con¬ 
 siderable extent, and will ultimately make it one of the 
 important manufacturing villages of Western Connecticut. 
 
 Three miles further on is the village of West Norfolk, with 
 its extensive leather manufactories, and, three miles beyond, 
 the village of East Canaan. Here are two of the furnaces 
 of the Barnum-Richardson Company, which will receive and 
 deliver not less than one hundred tons of freight every day in 
 the year. The ore for these furnaces is now hauled by teams 
 a distance of from twelve to fifteen miles, and the beds from 
 which it is taken lie immediately on the line of the Connecti¬ 
 cut Western Railroad. With increased facilities for trans¬ 
 portation the business will be largely augmented. 
 
 Three miles west is the village of North Canaan, where the 
 Connecticut Western Railroad intersects the Housatonic Rail¬ 
 road. Near this station are the celebrated lime kilns of 
 Barnes, Hadsell, and others. This lime is confessedly the 
 best made and is eagerly sought for in the large markets. In 
 this vicinity, also, lie the extensive marble quarries from 
 which the Girard College in Philadelphia and the Fifth Ave¬ 
 nue Hotel and many other prominent buildings in New York 
 were constructed. 
 
 Ore and coal for furnaces on the line of the Housatonic 
 Railroad will be transferred at this station, and general mer¬ 
 chandise and passengers will be interchanged. 
 
 Four miles west is Chapinville, where the furnaces of Lan- 
 ' don & Co., and other manufactories are located. 
 
 Three miles beyond Salisbury village is reached, and, two 
 miles further, the village of Lakeville; both are places of sum¬ 
 mer resort and are extensively engaged in manufacturing. 
 
 Two miles west of Lakeville is the Ore Hill and, two miles 
 further, Millerton, the western terminus of the road* 
 
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 The Brown Hematite Ore, from which the celebrated Salis¬ 
 bury iron is made, lies contiguous to the road and, in some 
 instances, immediately under its track. The tonnage from 
 the ore beds now opened is immense and their development 
 and yield yet in their infancy. Indeed, it is believed by those 
 who have carefully investigated the subject that these ore 
 beds alone will afford a sufficient amount of business, directly 
 and indirectly, to pay the interest onthe entire bonded debt 
 of the road. The demand for the ore is unlimited and the 
 supply inexhaustible. 
 
 At Millerton a direct connection is made to New York, 
 Albany and the West via the Harlem Railroad; also with the 
 Hudson River Railroad, the N. Y. and Erie Railroad and the 
 Pennsylvania Coal Company’s terminus at Newburgh via the 
 Dutchess and Columbia Railroad, now in successful operation. 
 In addition to these a connection is made with the Pough¬ 
 keepsie and Eastern Railroad, running eastward from the en¬ 
 terprising city of Poughkeepsie through the rich agricultural 
 towns of Dutchess County. A further connection will soon 
 be made to Rondout, the Eastern Depot of the Delaware and 
 Hudson Canal Company, by the Connecticut and Rhinebeck 
 Railroad, to be built the coming season, and also with the 
 Rondout and Oswego Railroad, now nearly completed and 
 affording a new, short and direct interior line to the West. 
 The Eastern business of this important road, together witli 
 that of the Erie Road, must all pass over the Connecticut 
 Western. 
 
 The general merchandise and passenger business, not al¬ 
 ready referred to, must be large. Indeed it is believed that 
 there has never been a railroad located in New England which 
 had upon its line a greater amount of local business waiting 
 its completion, and whose tributaries and connections were 
 more certain to make it an important trunk line between New 
 England and the West. The country through which it passes 
 is populous and wealthy. Nowhere east of the Hudson, within 
 an equal area, can be found so great an amount of water power, 
 ana m locating the road special reference lias been had to its 
 future use. 
 
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 The road lias been built with great care and thoroughness, 
 and all its appointments are first class. 
 
 It may not be necessary, in view of the foregoing state¬ 
 ments, to make an estimate in detail of the prospective busi¬ 
 ness of the Road: but, in order to show how reasonable a 
 probability, in the way of transportation, will be sufficient to 
 pay interest on the whole investment, attention is invited to 
 the following exhibit. 
 
 The Boston and Albany Railroad, west of Springfield, trav¬ 
 erses a region very much resembling in population, industry, 
 and resources, that occupied by the Connecticut Western 
 Railroad. The two roads are alike also in their physical char¬ 
 acteristics. By reference to the Report of the Company des¬ 
 ignated, for 186T, it will be seen that in 1853, when the Road, 
 with a single track, was doing little more than one half the 
 passenger business and just one third the freight business 
 which passed over it in 186T, the following movement was 
 effected, in round numbers, in Western Massachusetts:— 
 
 Through passengers . . . . 38,000 
 
 Way passengers .... 618,000 
 
 Tons of through freight . . . 80,000 
 
 Tons of way freight . . . . 244,000 
 
 Assuming, as it would appear to be quite safe to do, that 
 the Connecticut Western Railroad may look for at least half 
 this business, furnished eighteen years ago by a tributary 
 country at that time much less rich and populous than that 
 now awaiting its completion, we shall have 
 
 19,000 Through Passengers, at $2.00 . . $38,000 
 
 309,000 Way “ at .80 . . 247,200 
 
 40,000 Tons Through freight, at 1.75 . . 70,000 
 
 123,000 Tons Way “ at .80 . . 98,400 
 
 Add for mails and other sources $750 per m. 50,000 
 
 Total $503,600 
 
 Deduct 60 per cent, for expenses, 302,160 
 
 Balance 
 
 $201,440 
 
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 which is seven per cent, on $2,877,714—a sum more than 
 sufficient to build and equip the road. 
 
 To make up the amount required, in addition to the stock 
 subscriptions, to finish the work, and put it in running order, 
 it is proposed to issue Bonds, not exceeding $1,500,000, se¬ 
 cured by a first mortgage of all the Company’s property, real 
 and personal, to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, in 
 trust for the bondholders, and registered in the office of the 
 Comptroller of public accounts, who is forbidden to register 
 in any greater proportion than two thirds of the amount ex¬ 
 pended in construction. A copy of the mortgage is hereto 
 annexed. 
 
 The bonds are offered to the public at present at the low 
 price of Ninety and accrued interest, and it is honestly be¬ 
 lieved by the Managers that no safer or better railway secu¬ 
 rity has ever been offered in New England. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 INCORPORATING THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN 
 RAILROAD COMPANY. 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly ,— 
 
 Sec. 1. That E. Grove Lawrence, Nathaniel B. Stevens, Albert 
 Austin, Alexander H. Holley, William H. Barnum, William W. 
 Welch, William G. Coe, Theron Bronson, James F. Henderson, Wil¬ 
 liam L. Gilbert, John T. Rockwell, Egbert T. Butler, Edmund G. 
 Howe, George M. Bartholomew, Edward Norton, George H. Brown, 
 Oliver W. Barnes, Robert G. Coffin, Jairus Case, and Cornelius S. 
 Bushnell, with such other persons as shall associate with them for 
 that purpose, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by 
 the name of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, and by that 
 name may sue, be sued, implead and be impleaded in any court; and 
 may make and have a common seal, and break, alter, or renew the 
 same at pleasure ; and said corporation is hereby vested with all pow¬ 
 ers, privileges and immunities which are, or may be, necessary and 
 proper to carry into effect the purposes and objects of this act as here¬ 
 inafter set forth. 
 
 Sec. 2. The persons named in the first section of this act, or a 
 majority of them, shall open books to receive subscriptions to the 
 capital stock of said corporation at such time or times, and place or 
 places as said persons, or a majority of them, may appoint, and shall 
 give such notice of the time or times, place or places of opening said 
 books as they shall deem reasonable, and shall receive said subscrip¬ 
 tions under such regulations as they may adopt for such purpose. Said 
 persons, or a majority of them, may procure all necessary surveys 
 and estimates in reference to the railroad of said corporation, prelim- • 
 inary to the organization of said corporation, and said corporation, 
 when organized, may pay the expenses of all surveys and services 
 which may have been made and rendered for the benefit of said cor¬ 
 poration. 
 
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 Sec. 3. The persons named in the first section of this act, or a 
 majority of them, are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of 
 the stockholders of said corporation, in such way and at such time and 
 place as they may appoint, whenever one thousand shares or more of 
 the capital stock of said corporation shall have been subscribed for, to 
 choose directors and perfect the organization of said corporation; and 
 in all meetings of the stockholders of said corporation each share 
 shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote, which vote may be given 
 by such stockholder in person or by lawful proxy ; and whenever said 
 corporation shall have been so organized it may proceed to commence 
 the construction of the railroad hereafter specified, and to exercise all 
 the powers herein granted. 
 
 Sec. 4. The directors of said corporation shall be not less than 
 nine, nor more than thirteen in number. The first meeting of the 
 board of directors first chosen, shall be held at such time and place, 
 and upon such notice as a majority of them may appoint. The direct¬ 
 ors shall have full power to make and prescribe such by-laws, rules 
 and regulations as they shall deem needful and proper, (not contrary 
 to the laws of this State or of the United States,) touching the dispo¬ 
 sition and management of the stock, property, estate, and effects of 
 said corporation, the transfer of its shares, the duties and conduct of 
 its officers and servants, the elections, and meetings of directors, the 
 number of directors who shall constitute at any meeting of directors a 
 quorum for the transaction of business, and all matters whatsoever 
 that may appertain to the concerns of said corporation. The board 
 of directors shall have power to fill, from time to time, any vacancies 
 which, by death, resignation, or otherwise, during the interval between 
 any two annual meetings of said corporation may occur in their num¬ 
 ber. 
 
 Sec. 5 Said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to 
 locate, construct, and finally complete, a single, double, or treble rail¬ 
 road or way from some convenient point in the town of Hartford to 
 some convenient point in the town of Salisbury or the town of Sharon 
 upon the we,stern boundary line of this state, through any or all the 
 towns of Hartford, West Hartford, Wethersfield, New Britain, Farm¬ 
 ington, Burlington, Bloomfield, Simsbury, Avon, Canton, New Hart¬ 
 ford, Barkhamstead, Torrington, Winchester, Colebrook, Norfolk, 
 Canaan, North Canaan, Salisbury and Sharon ; also from some con¬ 
 venient point in the town of Canton to some convenient point in the 
 town of Suffield upon the northern boundary line of this State, through 
 any or all of towns of Canton, Simsbury, Granby, East Granby, and 
 
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 Suffield. Said corporation shall have full power to equip, maintain, 
 use, and enjoy the said railroad, and to take, transport and carry per¬ 
 sons and property thereon by the power and force of steam, of animals 
 or of any mechanical or other power, or of any combination of them. 
 Said corporation may purchase, receive and hold, in fee simple or 
 otherwise at its pleasure, such real estate and personal estate as said 
 corporation may see fit to purchase, receive or hold, in order to carry 
 out economically or advantageously the purposes of this act; and said 
 corporation may sell, convey and dispose of, as it may see fit, such of 
 said estate, real and personal, as said corporation may see fit so to sell, 
 convey and dispose of after having acquired the same. Said corpora¬ 
 tion is also authorized to construct and operate extensions of its track 
 into the States of New York and Massachusetts, or either of them, as 
 parts of its railroad line (and also to purchase or lease and hold and 
 operate, in like manner, any such extensions which may be constructed 
 by any person, persons, corporation or corporations in said States, or 
 either of them,) whenever said corporation shall receive from the 
 proper authorities in said States, respectively, lawful permission and 
 authorization so to do. Said corporation may also make any lawful 
 contract with any other railroad company with whose railroad its 
 track may connect or intersect, in relation to its business or property, 
 and may take lease of the property and franchises of, or lease its 
 property and franchises to any such railroad company, and any com¬ 
 pany having any such connection or intersecting railroad, may make 
 with said corporation the contracts aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 6. Said corporation may from time to time, for the purpose 
 of providing for the construction, equipment and maintainance of its 
 railroad, borrow money to an amount not exceeding two-thirds of the 
 amount expended in the construction of the same at the time of the 
 issue of such bonds, said amount expended to be ascertained by the 
 sworn statement of the chief engineer of said road, and may secure 
 the repayment of the money so borrowed, by its bonds, with or with¬ 
 out its corporate seal, signed by its president aud countersigned by its 
 treasurer, with or without coupons or certificates of interest, due at 
 the end of every six months, attached thereto; which bonds shall be 
 made and issued at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent, 
 per annum, payable semi-annually, and said corporation may sell and 
 dispose of such bonds, and may secure such bonds by mortgage or 
 mortgages of all or any part of its railroad property, rights and fran¬ 
 chises, in the manner provided for the sale and disposition of railroad 
 bonds, and the execution of railroad mortgages in and by section 510 
 
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 and section 511 of the statue entitled “An act concerning Communi¬ 
 ties and Corporations,” and all subsequent sections of said statue, so 
 far as they relate to such mortgages, and to the mode of enforcing 
 and making available, by legal process or otherwise, such mortgages 
 are hereby made applicable to any and all mortgages which said cor¬ 
 poration, under the authority given to it by this section, may at any 
 time make or execute. 
 
 Sec. 7. The capital stock of said corporation shall be two mill¬ 
 ions of dollars, and may be increased at the pleasure of said corpora¬ 
 tion to any amount not exceeding the total sum of three millions of 
 dollars, and said capital stock shall be divided into shares of one 
 hundred dollars each. 
 
 Sec. 8 Each of the towns named in section five of this act is 
 hereby authorized to subscribe for and take any number of said shares 
 not exceeding in amount, at the par value of said shares, five per cent, 
 of the total amount of the grand list, then last made, of the town so 
 subscribing, provided that said town shall first at a town meeting 
 specially warned for that purpose, by the vote of at least two-thirds 
 of the voters then and there voting upon the question, vote to sub¬ 
 scribe for such shares and appoint an agent to subscribe in the name 
 and behalf of said town for the same, notice of which meeting shall 
 be given at least ten days prior to said meeting by posting written or 
 printed copies of such notice in all the school districts of such town. 
 Any agent so appointed by any of said towns for said purpose may so 
 subscribe for such shares in the name and behalf of said town, and 
 his subscription, so made, shall be obligatory upon said town in the 
 same manner and to the same extent in which and to which a sub¬ 
 scription for the same number of shares by a natural person would 
 be obligatory upon him; and said town may from time to time, by any 
 agent appointed by it from time to time, for the purpose, vote upon 
 the shares of stock so held by it at all stockholders’ meetings of said 
 corporation, and exercise all the privileges of a stockholder of said 
 corporation so long as said town shall continue to hold any of said 
 shares; and said town shall be subject so long as it shall continue to 
 hold any of said shares, to all the duties and liabilities which would 
 attach to a natural person holding the same number of said shares, 
 and any such town for the purpose of paying for its said shares, may, 
 from time to time, borrow money and secure the repayment of the 
 same, by the issue of its notes, bonds, or other obligations. 
 
 Sec. 9. Whenever any town meeting shall be warned in the town 
 
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 of Hartford for the purpose specified in section eighth of this act, said 
 meeting shall be warned, held, and conducted in the following manner, 
 namely: said meeting shall be warned by a notice, signed by the 
 selectmen of said town, or a majority of them, and published at least 
 one week before said meeting is to be held, in one or more daily news¬ 
 papers of said town. Said notice shall contain, and propose for the 
 adoption of said meeting, a form of a vote purporting to authorize 
 some person, therein named, to subscribe in the name and behalf of 
 said town for a certain number of said shares in said proposed vote 
 specified; and said notice shall warn the inhabitants of said town 
 qualified to vote in town meetings of said town to meet at a day and 
 time in said notice specified, in the respective voting districts of said 
 town, wherein said inhabitants shall respectively on the day of said 
 meeting, reside, then and there to cast their ballots for or against said 
 proposed vote. Said notice shall also specify a place, in each voting 
 district of said town, where said qualified voters so residing in said 
 district shall so give their votes, and shall designate a time when the 
 ballot boxes in said districts shall open, and a time when they shall 
 close. Said selectmen shall cause a ballot box to be provided for the 
 reception, at the time and place so appointed, of ballots, in each dis¬ 
 trict, and shall appoint some person or persons to preside at each of 
 said voting places and to receive the ballots there to be cast. At the 
 time and place so appointed in each district every inhabitant of said 
 town then residing in said district, and qualified to vote in town meet¬ 
 ings of said town, shall be at liberty to deposit his ballot for or against 
 said proposed vote, in the ballot box so provided in that district. 
 Every voter who shall be in favor of the adoption of said proposed 
 vote shall deposit in the ballot box his ballot with the word “ Yes” 
 written or printed thereon; and every voter opposed to the adoption 
 of said proposed vote shall deposit in the ballot box his ballot with 
 the word “ No” written or printed thereon. Said selectmen shall 
 cause all the ballots so cast in said several districts to be counted after 
 said boxes shall be closed, and if the ballots having the word “ Yes’’ 
 so written or printed thereon shall constitute at least two-thirds of the 
 whole number of ballots so cast in said town, the said proposed vote 
 shall be deemed and held to have been passed and adopted and to be 
 a lawful and valid vote of said town, and thereupon any subscription 
 for said shares made in conformity with said vote by the person so 
 named in said vote shall be deemed and held to be a subscription 
 made by said town, and shall be obligatory according to the terms 
 thereof upon said town. 
 
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 Sec. 10. Any corporation located in any of said towns and trans¬ 
 acting therein any manufacturing, mining or mechanical business, may 
 subscribe for and take any number of shares of said corporation, pro¬ 
 vided the stockholders of any such corporation shall vote unanimously 
 in favor of such subscription, and provided that the record of such 
 vote shall be subscribed by every stockholder, and said corporation 
 shall thereupon become vested with all the privileges and subject to 
 all the liabilities which would attach to a natural person subscribing 
 for, taking and holding the same number of said shares. 
 
 Sec. 11. Whenever the land or estate of an y feme covert , infant, 
 cestui que trust, person non compos mentis , or person out of this State, 
 shall be required for the purposes of said railroad, the notice to be 
 given to such person of a proposed laying out of said railroad or loca¬ 
 tion thereof upon said land or estate, or of any intended application 
 by said corporation for the appointment of appraisers, or of a proposed 
 appraisal of damages in reference to said land or estate may be such 
 reasonable notice as shall be prescribed and ordered by some judge of 
 the superior court; and such notice, duly given in the manner pre¬ 
 scribed by such judge, shall be deemed sufficient notice to that person. 
 The husband of any such feme covert , the guardian by nature or by 
 appointment, of any such infant, the trustee of any such cestui que 
 trust , and the conservator of any such person non compos mentis , 
 respectively, may, in behalf of that person, release all damages for 
 any land or estate, taken or to be taken as aforesaid, as effectually as 
 they might respectively do if said land or estate were holden by them 
 in their own right respectively. 
 
 Sec. 12. Said corporation shall have all the powers conferred upon 
 railroad corporations by chapter seventh of the statute entitled “ An 
 Act concerning Communities and Corporations,” and the other stat¬ 
 utes which have been passed in alteration of said statute or in addi¬ 
 tion thereto. 
 
 Sec. 13. If said corporation shall not complete the construction 
 of said railroad on or before July 4th, A. D. 1876, then this act shall 
 become null and void. 
 
 Sec. 14. This act may be altered, amended, or repealed at the 
 pleasure of the General Assembly. 
 
 Approved, June 25th, 1868. 
 
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 COPY OF MORTGAGE. 
 
 This Indenture, made the 11th day of October, in the year one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy, between the Connecticut Western Rail Road Com¬ 
 pany, incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Connecticut, of the 
 first part, and the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut (trustee as here¬ 
 inafter set forth) of the second part. 
 
 Whereas, the said Company, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it by 
 its Charter and fhe amendments thereto, has commenced to build its Rail Road 
 from the City of Hartford in said State, to the line of the-State of New York, at 
 Salisbury in said State of Connecticut, and has obtained subscriptions to its 
 Capital Stock to the amount of Sixteen Hundred and Fifty Thousand 
 ($1,650,000) Dollars, and desires, for the purpose of constructing and equipping 
 said Rail Road, to borrow further sums of money upon the first mortgage Bonds, 
 hereinafter described, and proposes to make and issue such Bonds from time to 
 time pursuant to the power and authority to that effect, in said Charter contained, 
 to an amount not to exceed at any time two-thirds of the amount expended upon 
 said Road, in accordance with the provision of the sixth section of its Charter. 
 
 Such Bonds to be in sums of Five Hundred and One Thousand Dollars each, 
 and to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, and to be sealed 
 with the corporate seal of said Company, signed by its President and counter¬ 
 signed by its Treasurer, and to have interest coupons attached thereto, and to be 
 duly registered in the office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State 
 of Connecticut before being issued, which Bonds are to be in the following form: 
 
 No.- $- 
 
 FIRST MORTGAGE BOND. 
 
 STATE OP CONNECTICUT. 
 
 The Connecticut Western Rail Road Company promise to pay to the Treasurer 
 of the State of Connecticut or bearer, thirty years after the first of July eighteen 
 hundred and seventy, the sum of Dollars 
 
 for money borrowed, with interest at seven per cent, per annum, payable semi¬ 
 annually on the first days of July and January, in each year, on presentation and 
 surrender of the proper annexed coupon. 
 
 This Bond is part of an issue of Bonds secured by a first mortgage to the 
 Treasurer of the State of Connecticut upon the Rail Road of said Company, and 
 all its property, rights and franchises under its Charter, which issue is not to 
 exceed in amount at any time two-thirds of the amount then actually expended 
 for the construction of said Rail Road. 
 
 Said Bonds must be registered and certified by the Comptroller of Public 
 Accounts of the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Should any of the said interest coupons remain unpaid for six months after 
 presentation and default, the principal sum secured hereby, shall, at the option of 
 the holder hereof, then become due and payable. 
 
 This Bond may on request of the holder be registered in his name on the books 
 of the Company, and such registry shall be noted on the Bond. It shall there¬ 
 after be transferable only by written transfer on the books of the Company, unless 
 again being made payable to bearer by being transferred to bearer on said books, 
 and such transfer being noted on the Bond. 
 
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 Payment of interest to the holder of the proper coupon shall discharge the 
 company in all cases. 
 
 In witness whereof, this Bond has been sealed with the corporate 
 seal of said Company, and signed by its President and coun¬ 
 tersigned by its Treasurer, the day of 
 
 in the year 
 
 Countersigned. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 President. 
 
 This Bond is duly registered according to law in the office of the Comptroller 
 of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut, the 
 day of 
 
 Comptroller. 
 
 And whereas, the said Company has by a vote of its Stockholders, at a meeting 
 duly called for that purpose, and held at the City of Hartford, on the sixth day of 
 April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, authorized and directed the 
 execution of this mortgage, for the purpose of securing the payment of the Bonds 
 so to be issued as aforesaid and the interest thereon. 
 
 And whereas, the said Company has caused the route of its said Bail Road 
 from the City of Hartford to the east line of the State of New York, at Salisbury 
 in said State of Connecticut, to be surveyed, and the plans and drawings thereof 
 to be prepared, and has acquired title to portions of the Roadway, and has placed 
 the graduation and masonry on said line under contract, and has commenced and 
 is now proceeding with the construction of said Rail Road. 
 
 Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that the said Company, party of the 
 first part, to these presents in consideration of the premises, and to secure the 
 payment of the principal and interest of said Bonds, so to be issued and duly 
 registered as aforesaid, to an amount not to exceed at any time two-thirds of the 
 amount then actually expended in the construction of said Road, and also for and 
 in consideration of one dollar to said Company duly paid by the party of the 
 second part hereto at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the 
 receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. 
 
 Hath granted, bargained, sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed and set over, and 
 by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer, convey and set over 
 unto the said party of the second part, and unto his successors in said office of 
 Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, all and singular the Rail Road of said party, 
 of the first part, from the City of Hartford to the east line of the State of New 
 York, at Salisbury, Connecticut, as the same is now or may be hereafter located, 
 constructed, or improved, and all the roadway and lands that are or may be 
 included in the location of said Rail Road, or acquired by the said Company for 
 the purposes of said Rail Road within the several points aforesaid, with all and 
 singular the railways, rails, bridges, fences, station houses, depots, shops, build¬ 
 ings, structures, tools, cars, engines, equipments, machinery, fuel, materials, 
 privileges, appendages, appurtenances and property, real and personal, which now 
 belong, or may at any time hereafter belong, to said Company, and used as a 
 part of said Rail Road, or be appurtenant thereto or necessary for the construction, 
 operation, or security thereof, and also all the property, rights and franchises of 
 the said Company under its Charter and every part thereof, together with the 
 
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 tolls, income, issues and profits thereof, and all rights to receive the same, and 
 everything necessary for the completion and operation of the Road. 
 
 To have and to hold the said property and premises herein before granted and 
 conveyed, unto the said party of the second part, and his successors in office as 
 aforesaid, in trust for the person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, who shall 
 from time to time become holders of said Bonds, so about to be issued by said 
 Company, or any of them, subject to the terms and stipulations of said Bonds, 
 and the provisions of said Charter under which the said Company derives its 
 power, and subject to the possession, control and management of the Directors of 
 said Company, so long as said Company shall well and truly perform all and 
 singular the stipulations of the Bonds aforesaid and the covenants of this inden¬ 
 ture. And the said party of the first part, for itself, its successors and assigns, 
 doth covenant and agree with said party of the second part, his successors and 
 assigns, that until the ensealing and delivery hereof the said party of the first 
 part is well seized and possessed of the above granted premises, and hath full 
 power to grant, assign and convey the same in manner aforesaid, and that the 
 same are free from all encumbrances, and that it will warrant and defend the same 
 unto the said party of the second part, his successors and assigns, from and against 
 all claims and demands whatsoever, and further, that the said party of the first 
 part, its successoss and assigns, will make, execute and deliver all and singular 
 such further assurances and instruments as shall from time to time be necessary, 
 and the said party of the second part, or his successors or their counsel learned in 
 the law, shall reasonably advise and require for the better effectuating of the 
 objects and purposes of this trust and mortgage, and of subjecting thereto any 
 and all property, real or personal, which may hereafter be acquired by said Com¬ 
 pany, and shall appertain to said Rail Road, or be used in its construction or 
 operation. 
 
 And it is further mutually agreed by and between the respective parties hereto 
 that until default shall be made in the payment of the principal or interest of said 
 Bonds, or some part thereof, according to their tenor, the party of the first part, 
 its Directors and Officers, may remain in the quiet and peaceable possession and 
 enjoyment of all the Rail Road and property, rights and franchises herein before 
 granted and conveyed, and the tolls, earnings and income to arise therefrom, 
 without any molestation by or from the party of the second part, or his successors 
 but in case the said Company should make default in the payment of the interest 
 upon any of said Bonds, after due demand and presentation of the proper coupon 
 for such interest, and such interest should remain unpaid for six months after such 
 default, the said party of the second part, or his successor, may and shall, after 
 the lapse of said six months, upon the written request of the holder or holders of 
 one-third in amount of the Bonds, secured by this mortgage and then outstanding 
 take actual possession of said Rail Road, and of all and singular the property and 
 effects, rights and franchises, hereby conveyed or mortgaged, and subject to this 
 mortgage, and shall through agents to be appointed by him, for the purpose of 
 operating said Rail Road, receive the income and profits of said Rail Road for 
 the purposes of the trust herein before declared, defraying out of the same the 
 expenses of the Road and its necessary repairs ; and he may retain such posses¬ 
 sion until all arrearages of interest due by said Company on said Bonds, together 
 with any sums of money which may have been raised from sources other than the 
 earnings of the Road and actually expended on said Road in construction or 
 
repairs, or in additional rolling stock, during the management of said Road by 
 said Trustee, provided such expenditures were necessary for the operation of said 
 Road in the opinion of said Trustee, shall have been fully paid, and thereupon 
 such possession shall be restored to the officers of said Company. 
 
 And if the interest on any of said Bonds shall remain due and unpaid for the 
 term of six months after presentation of the proper coupon and default of the 
 payment thereof as aforesaid, the principal of each of said Bonds on which 
 such default shall have been made, shall at the option of the holder of such Bonds 
 respectively, become due and payable within one year from the date of such 
 default, 
 
 This conveyance is upon the express condition and limitation that upon the 
 payment of each and every of the said Bonds, and the discharge of the said 
 Company from all liability thereupon, the estate and trust herein and hereby 
 created in said grantee and trustee shall cease and be null and void, and the 
 premises hereby granted and conveyed, and all property which shall have been 
 subjected to this mortgage, shall be divested from said grantee and immediately 
 be reinvested in law and in fact in said grantor without any entry or other act to 
 be by said grantor or said grantee made or performed. 
 
 And it is further mutually agreed by and between the parties to these presents, 
 that in case at any time hereafter the holder of any or either of said Bonds should 
 desire to have such Bond registered so that it shall cease to become payable to 
 bearer, the said Company will, on his request, register such Bond in his name in 
 a book to be kept by the Company for that purpose, and will by an endorsement 
 upon such Bond certify that the same has been registered, and thereupon the same 
 shall be payable only to the person in whose name it is so registered, or his assigns, 
 and shall be transferable only on the books of the Company. 
 
 The Company shall keep a book or books containing such transfers, and no 
 bond so registered and certified shall be transferable except by a transfer in such 
 transfer book or books, signed by the party in whose name such Bond shall stand 
 at the time of the transfer, or by his attorney, duly authorized by a written power 
 t o be delivered to and retained by the Company, and every such transfer shall be 
 noted on the Bond by the Secretary or Treasurer of the Company. 
 
 And the holder of any such Bond so registered may again make it payable to 
 bearer by transferring on said books to bearer, and having such transfer noted by 
 the Secretary or Treasurer on such Bond. 
 
 But it is agreed that the Company shall not incur any responsibility to the 
 holder of any registered Bond by reason of the payment of interest to the bearer 
 of the coupon, when said coupon is paid according to its tenor for such interest, 
 and such payment shall discharge said Company from all liability for the interest 
 so paid. 
 
 And it is further mutually agreed by and between the parties hereto, that in 
 case the said Company should at any time desire to have any real or personal 
 property which may be covered by this mortgage, and not essential to the opera¬ 
 tion of said Rail Road, discharged from the lien and operation of said mortgage, 
 the party of the second part, or his successor, shall release such property from 
 the lien of this mortgage on the substitution therefor of other property of at least 
 equal value, and subjecting the same to the lien of this mortgage, or on the sur¬ 
 render to said Trustee for cancellation of Bonds secured by this mortgage to the 
 
amount of not less than two-thirds of the value of the property so sought to be 
 released, and such Bonds shall thereupon be cancelled. 
 
 And in case said parties fail to agree as to the fact whether any property sought 
 by the Company to be released is or is not essential to the operation of said Bail 
 Road, or as to the value of such property, or of any property proposed to be sub¬ 
 stituted therefor, those questions, or either of them, as to which the parties may 
 disagree, shall be decided by a referee to be appointed by one of the Judges of the 
 Superior Court of the State of Connecticut on the application of the Company, 
 and on at least three days notice of such application to the party of the second 
 part, or his successor. 
 
 And it is further mutually agreed as aforesaid, that in case it should he desired 
 by the Company at any time to exchange or replace any of the property which 
 may be covered by this mortgage, and which is essential to the operation of said 
 Rail Road, the party of the second part, or his successors, shall release from the 
 lien and operation of this mortgage the property so sought to be exchanged or 
 replaced on the Company acquiring and by a proper instrument subjecting to the 
 lien of this mortgage other property at least equal in value and utility for the 
 purposes of said Rail Road, to take the place of the property so released. And 
 in case the parties cannot agree as to the value or utility of the property sought 
 to be released, and of the property proposed to he substituted therefor those 
 questions shall be decided by a referee to be appointed in the manner last herein¬ 
 before prescribed. 
 
 In witness whereof, the said Corporation, party of the first part, has caused its 
 corporate seal to he hereto affixed and attested by its Secretary, and these presents 
 to be signed and executed in its behalf by William H. Barnum, its President, 
 who is hereunto duly authorized and empowered by a vote of its Board of Direc¬ 
 tors, passed at a meeting of said Board held at Hartford, the sixth day of April, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy. 
 
 CONNECTICUT WESTERN RAIL ROAD COMPANY. 
 
 By 
 
 William H. Barnum, 
 
 President. 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 County of Litchfield— ss. Winchester. 
 
 On this eleventh day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy, person¬ 
 ally appeared William H. Barnum, President of the Connecticut Western Rail 
 Road Company, the signers and sealers of the within and foregoing deed, and 
 acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed, and the free act and deed of 
 said Rail Road Company, before me, 
 
 William F. Hurlbut, Justice of Peace. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE. 
 
 Hartford, Conn., October 21, 1870. 
 
 Received, filed and recorded by 
 
 D. W. Edgecomb, Clerk, 
 
 For Thomas M. Waller, Secretary of State. 
 
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 Mayor’s Office, 
 Hartford, Conn., March 20, 1871. 
 
 To Whom it May Concern : 
 
 This may certify that I have carefully examined the records pertaining to the 
 organization of the Connecticut Western Rail Road Company, and find them 
 correct and in conformity to the General Statutes of this State relating to Rail 
 Roads, and in my opinion its Bonds are legally issued, and the mortgage executed 
 to secure the same is in compliance with law. 
 
 Charles R. Chapman, 
 
 Mayor of City of Hartford and Attorney at Law. 
 
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