elected or appointed in the manner hereinafter declared by the masonic bodies they represent.

SEC. 6. The directors shall have full power to make and prescribe such by laws, rules and regulations as they shall deem needful and proper for the disposition and management of the stock, property, estate and effects of the corporation, not contrary to the charter, or to the laws of the Territory of Colorado and the ordinances of the City of Denver; and shall have power to alter or amend the same as the interests of the corporation, in their opinion, may require. And the said directors shall have power to regulate the payment of interest upon the certificates of stock held by the stockholders, or other dividenda that may accrue, and shall have power to provide for the redemption of the stock held by individuals, upon fair and equit able terms.

SEC. 7. Each masonic body or organization named in the first section of this act, shall be entitled, during the month of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and annually thereafter, to meet and select, by ballot, three of its members as successors to the persons then, or last representing it, as members of this corporation, whose annual term expires next thereafter, or whieh may have expired Lext before that time, so that said corporation shall forever consist of three corporators from each of said Masonic bodies named in the first section of this act; Provided, however, That should any of the said several Masonic bodies named in the first section of this act, surrender or forfeit its masonic charter or warrant, or, from any cause, cease to be recognized by the order of free and accepted Masons, it shall not thereafter be entitled to any representation in said corpora tion, nor shall the continued corporate existence and rights of this association be in any wise affected thereby so long as there remains five corporators qualified to act as such.

SEC. 8. Any Masonic Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandary or Consistory now in existence or that may creafter be instituted in the City of Denver, may by and with the consent of two thirds of the corporators named in the first section, or their successors, be admitted to a representation in said corporation upon an equal footing with the several Masonic bodies named in the first section of this act.

Approved February 8th, 1865.

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FOR AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE DENVER AND SAN LUIS Valley WAGON ROAD COMPANY,

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory:

SEC. 1. That Jasper P. Sears, Jr.. A. Cameron Hunt, and Frank Talmer, Robert Berry, and their legal associates, successors and assigns be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Denver and San Luis Valley Wagon Road Company, and by that name they shall have succession for the term of thirty years, and shall be capable of making contracts, of sueing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all courts of law and equity, and may have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. The corporation hereby created shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain, during its existence, a wagon road from Denver City, in the County of Arapahoe, to the southern boundary of the Territory of Colorado, upon the most feasible aud practicable route as the same may be selected and located by the corporators aforesaid, their associates, successors and assigns, by the way of the following intermediate points to wit: From Denver, in a southerly direc tion, to the crossing of Plum Creek, about three miles above the mouth threof, thence southerly and entering the mountains at or near Garbor's Ranche, about five miles southerly from the Platte Canon, thence southerly to the place where the road leading from Colorado City to the South Park crosses the south branch of the Platte river, thence southerly to the point where the roads leading from Canon City to California Gulch and to Montgomery divirge [diverge], thence southerly to the crossing of the Arkansas River, known as the drift, about fifteen miles above Canon City, thence southerly through or across the Punche Pass to the crossing of the Rio del Norte, thence by way of the Conejos Agency and Los Pinos to the southern boundary of the Territory, and the said corporation shall have the right to construct, establish and operate a ferry at the crossing of the Rio del Norte aforesaid, during the period aforesaid.

SEC. 3. It shall be lawfull [lawful] for said corporation to acquire and hold any real estate necessary for the use of said road and ferry, and to sell and convey the same, and to acquire the right of way for said road by purchase or in the mauner provided in the act to enable road, ditch, manufacturing and other companies to become bodies corporate, approved March 11th, 1864.

SEC. 4. The capital stock of soid corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, and the same may be increased by the stock holders to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The capital stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and at all meetings of stockholders each share shali be entitled to one vote, to be cast by the holder thereof, in person or by proxy.

SEC. 5. The stockholders of said corporation or a majority of them at any meeting shall have power to designate the officers of said corporation and to provide for their election, and the duties to be performed by such officers, respectively, and to make bye-laws [by-laws] for said corporation, and to regulate the manner of holding and transferring the stock and all other affairs of said corporation.

SEC. 6. The said corporation shall complete the construction of twenty miles cf that portion of said road, commencing at or near Garbors' Ranche and running thence, southerly, into the mountains, within one year after the passage of this act, and shall complete the whole of said road, with the ferry over the Rio del Norte, within three years after the passage of this act; and if said coinpany shall fail to construct and complete said road, as provided in this section, they shall forfeit all rights and privileges grantad in this act, and the same shall be null and Void.

SEC. 7. The said corporation shall have power and authority to collect tolls on that portion of said road which lies between the point where the same duters the mountains, at Garbors Ranch aforesaid, and the point where the same passes out from the mountains and strikes the San Luis valley, and upon no other portion of the road, at the rates hereinafter prescribed. From all persons passing over or upon said road with wagons or vehicles of any kind, horses, mules, oxen, icattle, sheep or hogs and goats, and any person who shall pass any toll gate, authorized to be erected on said road, and shall refuse to pay toll, as required by this act, shall forfeit to said corporation the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by action of debt.

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SEC. 8. The said corporation may erect and maintain toll gates, on the portion of said road mentioned in section seven, at such points as they may select, not exceeding one gate for every thirty miles of road, at each of which gates it shall be lawfull [lawful] for said corporation to charge and collect toll, at the rates following and no more, that is to say: Upon each wagon or vehicle drawn by one pair of horses, mules or oxen, one dollar; and, for each additional pair of horses, mules or oxen, fifteen cents. Upon each vehicle drawn by one animal, seventy-five cents. For each animal ridden by any person, fifteen cents. For each pack animal, five cents. Upon all cattle

horses and mules, driven loose, four cents per head. Upon all sheep and hogs driven over said road, one cent per head; Provid, That the Legislative Assembly of this Territory, or any body having general legislative authority over the region of country in which said road is located, may, after the expiration of ten years from the passage of this act, and deceminally thereafter, prescribe new rates of toll to be charged and collected on said road by said corporation.

SEC. 9. The said corporation may charge and collect tolls, for crossing in the ferry to be established and operated at the crossing of the Rio del Norte aforesaid, at the following rates, to-wit: For each wagon or vehicle drawn by one pair of horses, mules or oxen, one dollar; and for each additional pair of horses, mules or oxen, twenty-five cents. Upon each vehicle drawn by one animal, seventy-five cents. Upon each saddle horse or mule, the sum of twenty-five cents, Upon each pack animal, the sum of twenty-five cents. Upon all cattle, horses, asses and mules driven loose, the sum of ten cents per head. Upon all sheep and hogs, the sum of two cents per head. For every footman, the sum of ten cents; Provided, That the Legislative Assembly of this Territory, or any body having general legislative authority over the country in which said ferry is located, may, after the expiration of ten years from the passage of this act, and deccminally thereafter, prescribe new rates of toll to be charged and collected by said corporation at said ferry,

SEC. 10. Upon complaint being made before any Justice of the Peace in any county through which said road passes, that any part of the road in the county in which such Justice resides, is is bad condition, or is not passable for wagons and vehicles, said Justice shall summon said company, or any agent thereof, to appear before him at any time to be by him fixed, not exceeding six days from the filing of the complaint, and if upon examination it shall appear that the complaint is true, judgement [judgment] shall be rendered against said company for the costs of suit and for the sum of fifty dollars to be paid into the school fund of the county, and thereupon no toll shall be collected by said corporation on that portion of said road until the same is put in passable condition for wagons and carriages; Provided, however, That said corporation shall not be liable to prosecution or cost of suit when said road is in bad condition from heavy falls of snow, snow drifts, high water. ice, or other providential causes.

SEC. 11. Said corporation shall not demand or collect tolls on any part of said road that may be in bad condition, after judgment shall have been rendered, as provided in section ten, until such part of the road shall be put in passable condition,

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and if said corporation shall demand toll, after judgment shall have been rendered, as aforesaid, and before such road shall have been repaired, the corporation shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, by the person or persons from whom such toll was illegally collected. Nothing herein before contained shall be construed to prevent other road companies constructing roads from other points in this territory from connecting any road or roads of such companies with the road authorized by this act.

SEC. 12. If any person or perrons shall wilfully do or cause to be done any act or acts whatever, through or by which the said road or ferry, or any building, bridge, gate, or other matter or things appertaining to said road or ferry shall be destroyed, weakened or obstructed, he, she or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit and pay to said company treble the amount of damage sustained by the company, through or by reason of such act or acts, to be recovered by the company in any court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 13. The said corporation are hereby authorized to collect tolls on said road, at the rates herein prescribed, as soon as thirty miles thereof shall be completed, and thereafter upon other portions thereof as the same shall be completed.

SEC. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 10th, 1865.

AN ACT

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT PRESCRIBING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE TRUST ARISING UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS ENTITLED 'AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CITIZENS OF TOWNS UPON LANDS OF THE UNITED STATES, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES," APPROVED MARCH 11TH, A. D., 1864.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory :

SEC. 1. That section two of said act be amended by inserting the words "his or their successors," between the words "Congress" and "shall," in the third line from the top of said section.

SEC. 2. That all lots, blocks, pieces or parcels of land, lying within the town os Boulder, in the County of Boulder, and Territory of Colorado, unclaimed under section four of said