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passengers and property shall be transported, and the compensation therefor; but the compensation for any passenger and his ordinary baggage shall not exceed three cents per mile. But this subdivision does not apply to corporations formed under special charter before April 2d, 1850;

9. From time to time to borrow such sums as are necessary for completing or operating their railway, and to issue and dispose of their bonds for any amount so borrowed, and to mortgage their corporate property and franchises to secure any debt contracted for such purposes; and the directors may confer, under such regulations as they see fit, on any holder of any such bond, the right to convert the principal thereof into stock of the company, at any time not exceeding ten years from the date of the bond.

1 R. S., 1230, § 28.

§ 524. Every company shall make an annual report to the state engineer and surveyor of the operations of the year ending on the thirtieth day of September; which report shall be verified by the oath of the treasurer or president, and acting superintendent of operations, and be filed in the office of the state engineer and surveyor by the first day of December in each year, and shall

state:

1. The amount of capital as by charter;

2. The amount of stock subscribed;

3. The amount paid in as by last report;

4. The amount now of capital stock paid in;

5. The funded debt by last report;

6. The amount now of funded debt;

7. The floating debt as by last report;

8. The amount now of floating debt;

9. The total amount now of funded and floating debt;

10. The average rate per annum of interest on funded debt.

COST OF ROAD AND EQUIPMENT:

11. For graduation and masonry by last report; 12. The amount now expended for the same; 13. The amount for bridges by last report; 14. The amount now expended for the same;

15. The amount for superstructure, including iron, by last report;

16. Amount now expended for the same;

17. For passengers and freight stations, building and fixtures, by last report ;

18. Amount now expended for the same;

19. For engine and car-houses, machine shops, and machinery and fixtures, by last report;

20. Amount now expended for the same;

21. For land, land damages and fences, by last

report;

22. Amount now expended for the same;

23. For locomotives and fixtures and snowplows, by last report;

24. Amount now expended for the same;

25. For passenger and baggage cars by last report;

26. Amount now expended for the same; 27. For freight cars as by last report;

28. Amount now expended for the same;

29. For engineering and agencies by last report;

30. Amount now expended for the same;

31. Total cost of road and equipment;

CHARACTERISTICS OF ROAD:

32. Length of road;

33. Length of road laid;

34. Length of double track, including sidings;

35. Length of branches owned by the company laid;

36. Length of double track on the same;

37. Weight of rail by yard on main track; 38. The number of engine-houses and shops,

of engines and cars, and their character;

39. Each company shall also transmit to him, within three months after any portion of the road is in use, the following maps, profiles and drawings: The map to show the length and direction of each straight line and the length and radius of each curve, the point of crossing of each town and county line, and the length of line in each town and county, accurately determined by measurements to be taken after the completion of the road; the profile to be on the map, and to show the grade, line and surface of ground in the usual method; also, the elevation of grades above tides at each change in the inclination thereof; the maps and profile to be made on a scale of five hundred feet to one-tenth of a foot; vertical scale of profile to be one hundred feet to one-tenth of a foot.

DOINGS OF THE YEAR IN TRANSPORTATION, AND TOTAL MILES RUN:

40. Miles run by passenger trains;

41. Miles run by freight trains;

42. The rate of fare for passengers, charged for the respective classes, per mile;

43. Number of passengers carried in cars; 44. Number of miles traveled by passengers;

45. Number of tons, of two thousand pounds, of freight carried in cars;

46. Number of miles carried, or total movement of freight in miles; all to be accurately compiled

from the daily records or evidences of earnings, manifest and way-bills;

47. Average rate of speed adopted by ordinary passenger trains, including stops;

48. Average rate of speed adopted by ordinary passenger trains when in motion;

49. Average rate of speed adopted by express trains, including stops;

50. Average rate of speed adopted by express trains when in motion;

51. Average rate of speed adopted by freight trains, including stops;

52. Average rate of speed adopted by freight trains when in motion;

53. Average weight, in tons of two thousand pounds, of passenger trains, exclusive of passengers and baggage;

54. Average weight, in tons, of freight trains, exclusive of freight;

55. The amount of freight, specifying the quantity in tons, of the products of the forest, of animals, of vegetable food, other agricultural products, manufactures, merchandise and other articles.

EXPENSES OF MAINTAINING THE ROAD OR REAL PROPERTY OF THE CORPORATION:

56. For repairs of road-bed and railway, except