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This volume contains land grants, statutory powers and judicial interpretations, issues of capital stock, leases, purchases, mortgages, indentures of trust securing the bonds of the company, and the act incorporating the ATSF Railroad Company. The latter, which appears on pages 3-8, was passed at the fifth session the Legislative Assembly of Kansas Territory in 1859. It was classified as part of the "private laws of the Territory of Kansas." The act was signed by Governor Samuel Medary. The law listed the following as incorporators: S. C. Pomeroy, C. K. Holliday, Luther C. Challis, Peter T. Abell, Milton C. Dickey, Asaph Allen, Samuel Dickson, Nelson L. Gordon, George S. Hillyer, Lorenso D. Bird, Jeremiah Murphy, George H. Fairchild, and R. L. Crane. Volume one, part of a three volume set, was compiled by Henry W. Swift for the A. T. & S. F. in 1890 at the request of John J. McCook, General Counsel, and George R. Peck, General Solicitor, for the railroad company.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Date: July 1, 1890
Item Number: 225796
Call Number: K 385 At2 D659 Vol. 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225796
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Collections - Library
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s - 1890
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Legislatures
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Book
People - Notable Kansans - Dickey, Milton C., 1824-1879
People - Notable Kansans - Hillyar, George S., 1820-1874
People - Notable Kansans - Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz, 1826-1900
People - Notable Kansans - Medary, Samuel, 1801-1864
People - Notable Kansans - Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - New Mexico - Santa Fe
Places - Rivers - Missouri
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Type of Material - Printed materials - Books
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