John W. Cary, Richard F. Wilson and Oliver S. Powell, being severally duly sworn, depose and say that the names subscribed to the foregoing arti cles of association are the genuine signatures of the persons named therein, and that it is the intention of the subscribers in good faith to construct, maintain and operate the road mentioned in said articles of association, and fur. ther say not. JOHN W. CARY, O. S. POWELL, Subscribed and sworn to, before me, this 14th day of June, A. D. 1873. Notary Public, Wisconsin. Recorded June 6, 1873. CHANGE OF NAME OF MIL. & ST. P. R. R. TO “CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY. At an adjourned meeting of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, held in the city of Milwaukee on the 7th day of February, 1874, at which were present in person and by proxy a majority of all its shareholders, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the corporate name of this company be changed to the "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company." Resolved, That the Secretary of the company file in the office of the Secre tary of State on the 11th day of February, 1874, a copy of the above resolution, certified under his hand and the seal of the company, in order that the change of name take effect from that date. I, R. D. Jennings, Secretary of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy from the minutes of a meeting of the stockholders of said company, held at their office in Milwaukee, February 7, 1874. Witness my hand and the corporate seal affixed this seventh day of Febru ary, 1874. R. D. JENNINGS, Secretary. The seal of the company under the name of the "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company." Recorded February 11, 1874. DEEDS OF CONVEYANCE. DEED CONVEYING THE MINNESOTA CENTRAL RAILWAY TO THE MCGREGOR WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This indenture, made the 22d day of June, A. D. 1867, between the Minnesota Central Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated by the state of Minnesota, of the first part, and the McGregor Western Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated by the state of Iowa, of the second part, witnesseth: That the Minnesota Central Railway Company, for and in consideration of one dollar, and of 271 shares of the capital stock of the McGregor Western Railway Company, received of the McGregor Western Railway Company by the Minnesota Central Railway Company, to its full satisfaction, and in consideration of the said McGregor Western Railway Company assuming and agreeing to pay the present mortgage debts of said Minnesota Central Railway Company,— Hath granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presnts doth grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said McGregor Western Railway Company, and to their successors and assigns forever, all of their the Minnesota Central Railway Company's roadway, rolling stock, equipment and supplies, embracing and including all their railroad from the state line to Austin, thence in a northerly direction to Minneapolis, and embracing the branch from near Mendota to Fort Snelling to the city of St. Paul, including the bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Paul, and ail further extensions of the railroad of the Minnesota Central Railway Company as now authorized by law, or which shall hereafter be authorized, including the right of way and land occupied by said road, and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. Also, embracing all the depots, station houses, engine houses, car houses, ware houses, elevators, machine shops, work shops, superstructures, erections and fixtures, and all lands used for railroad purposes, and all buildings erected and in processs of erection thereon, and all appurtenances, rights, and privileges thereunto belonging. And also, all and singular the locomotives, tenders, passenger cars, carriages, tools, machinery, wood, coal, rents, tools, profits, benefits and advantages of said Minnesota Central Railway Company. And the said Minnesota Central Railway Company for itself and for its successors and assigns doth covenant with the McGregor Western Railway Company its successors and assigns that it hath a good and indefeasible estate in fee simple, and hath good right to bargain and sell the same and that it will, and that its successors and assigns shall warrant and forever defend the same to the said McGregor Western Railroad Co.npany, its successors and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. Excepting and reserving to the grantor all lands that have heretofore been or shall hereafter be donated or granted by the United States or by the state of Minnesota to aid in the construction of the line of railroad above described. The above premises are granted subject to the payment of a mortgage of $2,000,000 made by the grantor to Washington Hunt and Russell Sage, trustees, which mortgage debt the grantee hereby covenants and agrees to assume and pay. DEED CONVEYING THE MCGREGOR WESTERN RAILWAY AND MINNESOTA CENTRAL RAILWAY TO THE MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY. This indenture made on the fifth day of August A. D. 1867, by and between the McGregor and Western Railway, a corporation duly incorporated under laws of the state of Iowa of the first part, and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated by the state of Wisconsin of the second part, Witnesseth: that the McGregor Western Railway Company for and in consideration of one dollar, and 975 shares of the said Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company's capital stock of which one half is common and and one half preferred, received to its full satisfaction by the McGregor Western Railway Company of the said Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com. pany, and in consideration of the last named company assuming and promising to pay all the mortgage bonds and past due coupons of the McGregor Western Railway Company, and of all the debts and valid contracts of said McGregor Western Railway Company, hath granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company and to their successors and assigns forever, all of their railway, rolling stock, equipments and supplies, embracing and including all their railroad from the Mississippi River at or near McGregor in the county of Clayton, state of Iowa, thence running westerly and northwesterly through Clayton, Alamakee, and Winnesheik counties via Cresco in Howard county to the Minnesota state line, thence in a northwesterly direction to Austin in the county of Mower in said Minnesota, thence northerly through the counties of Mower, Dodge, Steele, Rice, Dakota and Hennepin to Minneapolis, and embracing the branch from near Mendota or Fort Snelling to the city of St. Paul in Ramsey county, including the bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Paul, all further extensions of the railroad of the McGregor Western Railway Company as now authorized by law or which may hereafter be authorized including the right of way and land occupied by said road, and all the appurtenances, privileges and franchises thereunto belonging, also embracing all the depots, station-houses, engine houses, car houses, ware houses, elevators, machine shops, workshops, superstructures, erections and fixtures, and all lands, used for railroad purposes, and all buildings erected or in process of erection thereon, and all appurtenances, rights and privileges therunto belonging, and also all and singular the locomotives, tenders, passenger cars, carriages, tools, machinery, wood, coal, rents, tolls, profits, benefits and advantages of said McGregor Western Railway Company relating thereto. * * * The above premises are granted subject to the payment of a mortgage to Wm. B. Ogden and Samuel J. Tilden, Esqrs., trustees of $1,091,000 and interest, and subject to a mortgage to Washington Hunt and Russell Sage, Esqrs., trustees of $2,000.000, which mortgage debts the said Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company hereby assumes and promises to pay; and subject to a contract with the Iowa and Minnesota Railway Construction Company, for the construction of the road from Cresco to Owatonna, the obligations of which contract, so far as the same are unsatisfied, the said Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company hereby assume and agree to save the McGregor Western Railway Company harmless therefrom. DEED CONVEYING THE MINNESOTA CENTRAL RAILWAY FROM AUSTIN TO THE STATE LINE-11 MILES-TO THE MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY. This indenture, made the 15th day of February, A. D. 1870, by and between the Minnesota Central Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Minnesota, of the first part, and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated by the state of Wisconsin, of the second part, witnesseth: That the Minnesota Central Railway Company, for and in consideration of three thousand five hundred and twenty shares of the capital stock of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, of which one-half is preferred stock, and one-half is common stock, and (of the present market value of about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), all received to the full satisfaction of the Minnesota Central Railway Company, they have granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, and to their successors and assigns forever, all their railway from a point where the same connects with said Milwaukee and St. Paul line of railway, in the city of Austin, county of Mower, running southerly to the state line, to a point of connection with the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railway Company, including the right of way, and land occupied by said railway company for railway or station house purposes, and all the appurtenances, privileges and franchises appertaining to the operation of said railroad between the points named; also embracing all depots, station houses and lands used tor railroad purposes, and all buildings erected or in process of erection thereon. * * DEED CONVEYING THE ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO RAILWAY TO THE MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY. This indenture made the third day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between the St. Paul and Chicago Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Minnesota, of the first part, and the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com. pany, a corporation under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, of the second part, witnesseth; That the St. Paul and Chicago Railway Company, party of the first part, in consideration of the sum of four million dollars, to be paid by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, aliened, enfeoffed and confirmed, and hereby grants, bargains, sells, remises, releases, enfeoffs and confirms to the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, party of the second part, its successors and assigns forever, the line of railway, of the party of the first part, commencing at its terminus, in the city of St. Paul, thence in a southerly direction on the east bank of the Mississippi river through the counties of Ramsey and Washington, to a point opposite or nearly opposite to the city of Hastings, thence across the Mississippi river by the iron bridge or viaduct to Hastings, thence on the west bank of the Mississippi river in a southerly direction through the counties of Dakota, Goodhue, Wabash, Winona and Houston, to La Crescent, including said iron bridge at Hastings, all in the state of Minnesota; with all lands and real estate used for railway purposes at and between the points above named, and all rails, fixtures, stations, depots, warehouses, shops, water tanks, turn tables, machinery and apparatus connected therewith and appurtenant thereto, into, including fifteen first-class locomotive engines, one hundred box cars and thirty-five flat cars, and all the rights and franchises of every description, of the party of the first part appertaining to the said line of railway, from St. Paul to La Crescent, necessary or requisite for the operation of the same, reserving therefrom all lands not used for railway purposes, owned or to be owned by the grantor, donated by the United States of America, or by the state of Minne. sota. DEED FROM THE HASTINGS AND DAKOTA RAILWAY COMPANY TO THE MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY, FROM HASTINGS TO GLENCOE, SEVENTY-FIVE MILES This indenture, made this 29th day of June, A. D. 1872, by and between the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Minnesota, of the first part, and the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, a corporation duly incorported by the state of Wisconsin, of the second part, witnesseth: That the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company, for and in consideration of $450,000 in money, or seven thousand five hundred shares of the capital stock, designated common stock of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, and one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at their par value, of the bonds of said Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, to be received to the full satisfaction of the grantor, hath granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presents, doth grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, and to their successors and assigns forever, all their right, title and interest in and to, and all their rights and privileges appertaining to the line of railroad, commencing in the city of Hastings, in the county of Dakota, state of Minnesota, at or near the Mississippi river, extending westerly through the counties of Dakota and Scott, across the Minnesota river, into and through the city of Carver, to Glencoe, in the county of McLeod, as shown by the maps of said line of railroad, now on file in the office of the two railroad companies, embracing the road bed, right of way, and all the bridges, depots, station houses, engine houses, and all lands used for railroad purposes, at any and all places between the two terminal points, and all buildings erected or in process of erection thereon, and all appurtenances, rights and privileges thereunto beonging or appertaining; also embracing five new locomotives, first class, seventy-five new box freight cars and four new passenger cars. * * WINONA AND ST. PETER RAILROAD COMPANY-AGREEMENT WITH DANFORD N. BARNEY, AND OTHERS. Memorandum of an agreement, made the 31st day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by and between Danford N. Barney, Jesse Hoyt, Angus Smith, William G. Fargo, Benjamin P. Cheney, Charles F. Latham, Ashbel H. Barney, Samuel N. Hoyt and Alfred M. Hoyt, parties of the first part, and the Winona & St. Peter Railroad Company, party of the second part: Whereas, the said parties of the first part have, at and upon the request of the said party of the second part, loaned and advanced large sums of money to the party of the second part, and made, constructed and equipped one hundred and five miles of the railroad of the said party of the second part in the state of Minnesota, and the said party of the second part is indebted to the said parties of the first part in a large sum of money on account thereof: And whereas, the said parties have agreed upon the terms of liquidation, settlement and payment of all such indebtedness, and the adjustment of the matters between them on the terms hereinafter named; And whereas, the said party of the second part hath heretofore issued and delivered to the said parties of the first part its first mortgage bonds on said road for two million one hundred thousand dollars, in part payment of such indebtedness; Now, the said party of the second part hath agreed, and doth hereby agree, in further part payment and satisfaction of such indebtedness, to issue to the said parties of the first part, four hundred thousand dollars of the full paid capital stock of its said company, and will also make, execute and deliver to the said parties of the first part, twelve hundred and sixty bonds or obliga |