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6647

OF THE

RAILROAD COMMISSIONER,

WITH

REPORTS OF RAILROAD COMPANIES,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1872.

PREPARED BY A. J. EDGERTON, COMMISSIONER.

SAINT PAUL:

PRESS PRINTING COMPANY.

NORMAN WRIGHT,

STATE PRINTER.

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059

JAN 21 1907

STATE OF MINNESOTA,

OFFICE OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONER,
ST. PAUL, January 7, 1878.3

His Excellency, Horace Austin,

Governor of the State of Minnesota:

SIR: I have the honor to submit through you to the Legislature of Minnesota my second Annual Report as Railroad Commissioner.

I am respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. J. EDGERTON,

Rairoad Commissioner.

REPORT OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONER.

To the Legislature of Minnesota :

The Railroad Commissioner respectfully submits his second annual report.

The constitution of the State prohibits the Legislature from granting any charter except for municipal purposes. Nearly all the railroads in the State have been constructed under charters granted by the Territorial Legislature. Some have been forfeited and sold with the grants and franchises to the State, and again regranted either to the old or to new companies. Others were formerly branches of some other roads, and have been authorized by acts of the Legislature to separate from the parent stock and form independent com panies. A short summary of the origin and progress of each road already constructed or being constructed, is given, that every one may better understand the relations these corporations sustain to the State.

MINNESOTA AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

This company was chartered by the Territorial Legislature, May 22, 1857, and "authorized and empowered to survey, locate, construct, complete, alter, change the location of, reconstruct, maintain and operate a railroad, with one or more tracks or lines of rails, on such route and with such alignment and gradation as said company shall think proper, from Stillwater, by way of St. Paul and St. Anthony, via

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