: terms prescribed in the act of incorporation. That said books be opened on the first Wednesday of November next, at 12 o'clock, at noon, in Portland, Maine Concord, New Hampshire; Rutland, Vermont; Boston, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Hartford, Connecticut; New York city; Trenton, New Jersey; Philadelphia city; Wilmington, Delaware; Baltimore, Maryland : Washington city; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. Paul, Minnesota; Burlington, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Leavenworth, Kansas; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver City, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio; Buffalo and Albany, New York; Wheeling, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Dubuque, Iowa; Carson City, Nevada; San Francisco, California; to be opened in such localities therein as may be designated by or under the authority of the president, secretary, and treasurer of the board, or any two of them. If it shall prove impracticable to open or keep open said books at any or either of said places, such plans shall be dispensed with. A cash payment of ten per cent, on the amount of every subscription shall be made by a certificate of deposit to the treasurer, in some bank of good standing, to be approved by him, and on receiving such certificate he shall issue his receipt to the subscriber for the amount. Now, therefore, the undersigned, the president, secretary, and treasurer of said board, named in said resolutions, do, by authority vested in us, hereby designate and appoint the office or place of business as the place at which books to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said corporation shall be opened in said agreeably to the provisions of the act and of the resolutions aforesaid; and the undersigned president, secretary, and treasurer of said board do, by virtue of the authority of said act and of the resolutions aforesaid, commit the charge, care, and custody of said books opened for subscription to the capital stock of said corporation in said who are hereby, for and in behalf of said board, authorized to open said books for subscription to the capital stock of said company, agreeably to the provisions of said act, and of the resolutions. aforesaid, at the place above named in said on the first Wednesday of November, 1862, at 12 o'clock m., and to keep and maintain said books open for subscription to the capital stock of said corporation for at least two weeks from the said first Wednesday of November, 1862; and said are hereby authorized to receive, in manner prescribed by said resolution, all certificates of deposits, checks, bills of exchange, for the moneys subscribed by the act to be paid by each person subscribing to the capital stock of said company, and to forward the same to the treasurer of said company at Albany as fast as received, and upon closing the aforesaid books to forward them to said treasurer, or the secretary of the company in New York, with a statement or account of their action in the premises. Dated New York, day of 1862. ད WM. B. OGDEN, President. THOMAS W. OLCOTT, Treasurer. Το Form of a return by the persons intrusted with the opening of books. : We, the undersigned, to whom were committed the books to be opened in for subscription to the capital stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, agreeably to the act of Congress incorporating the same, and of the resolution of the board of commissioners of the Union Pacific Railroad Company held at Bryan Hall, Chicago, on the 2d day of September, 1862, hereby certify that said books of subscription were opened in said on the first Wednesday of November, 1862, at 12 o'clock m., and kept open by us for subscription to the capital stock of said company for at least two weeks continuously, from the said first Wednesday of November, 1862; and we further certify that subscriptions were made on the same capital stock of said company by the persons and amounts as follows: ; and we further certify that the following sums have been paid us by the parties subscribing, being ten per cent. on the amount of the subscription, viz : which sums, as aforesaid, we have forwarded to the treasurer of the company at Albany, New York. To be sworn to before some commissioner of deeds, justice of the peace, or judge of the United States courts. And whereas it was thought advisable to secure the assistance and co-operation of other parties to aid the person or persons to whom the book or books of subscription were committed, the undersigned filled the blanks in the letters of instruction respectively with the names of the following persons, to wit: UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. Persons to whom books of subscription to the capital stock have been committed: Albany, New York, Thomas W. Olcott. Baltimore, Maryland, Thomas Swann, Chauncey Brooks, Edward Wilkins. Buffalo, New York, Dean Richmond. Boston, Massachusetts, Samuel T. Dana, W. H. Swift, John Bertram. Burlington, Iowa, Lyman Cook, H. T. Reid. Carson City, Nevada Territory, Wells, Farago & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, Amasa Stone. Chicago, Illinois, William B. Ogden, Henry Farnam, C. G. Hammond. Concord, New Hampshire, Joseph A Gilmore. Cincinnati, Ohio, S. S. L'Hommedieu, William H. Clement. Detroit, Michigan, Charles A. Trowbridge, R. N. Rice, Ransom Gardner. Dubuque, Iowa, Platt Smith, L. H. Langworthy, Lewis A. Thomas. Denver City, Colorado, John Evans, George H. Clayton, Warren Hussey. Hartford, Connecticut, George P. Bissell, C. S. Bushnell. Indianapolis, Indiana, James M. Ray, Isaac C. Elston, William D. Griswold. Louisville, Kentucky, James Guthrie. Leavenworth, Kansas, J. C. Stone, John Kerr. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, John Cattin, E. D. Holton. New York city, New York, H. V. Poor, secretary of the company, 54 William street. Omaha, Nebraska Territory, Alvin Saunders, Gilbert C. Morrell, Augustus Kountze. Portland, Maine, Charles E. Barrett, Joseph Eaton, James Dunning. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jay Cooke & Co., J. Edgar Thompson, Joseph Harrison. Providence, Rhode Island, Walter S. Burgess, W. P. Blodgett. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, George W. Cass, Thomas M. Howe, Robert Finney. Rutland, Vermont, Henry H Baxter. St. Louis, Missouri, William M. McPherson. St. Paul, Minnesota, Parker Paine, David Blakely. Salt Lake City, Utah, Brigham Young. San Francisco, California, Wells, Fargo & Co. Trenton, New Jersey, Philemon Dickenson, Ephraim Marsh, Charles M. Harker. Wilmington, Delaware, R. R. Robinson & Co. Wheeling, Virginia, S. Brady. Washington, D. C., R. W. Latham. The books of subscription aforesaid, the letter of instruction, with a blank form of return, a printed copy of the notice of the opening of the books, and a printed copy of the list of persons to whom the books of subscription to the capital stock of said company were committed, were enclosed in an envelope and properly directed to the several persons named, and deposited in the post office, in the city of New York, postage paid, in due season to reach their place of destination in due time, and before the time mentioned therein for the opening of said books, with the exception of books prepared for the States of Oregon and California, and the Territory of Nevada, which were delivered to Wells, Fargo & Co., and were forwarded by said Wells, Fargo & Co., the last books referred to being prepared at an earlier day in consequence of the length of time required to reach their place of destination, and differ in some respects, though not materially, from books opened in other places, and were not accompanied by a blank form of return; and said president, secretary and treasurer, on the seventeenth day of November, 1862, for the purpose of ascertaining whether an amount of stock had been subscribed, to wit, 2,000 shares, and ten per cent. of this amount paid to the treasurer of the company, which will make it obligatory on the part of the officers to call a meeting for choice of directors, caused a notification to be addressed to the several persons to whom books of subscription of the capital stock of said company had been committed, with the exception of the parties in the city of New York, to whom books of subscription had been committed, in the words and figures following: UNION PACIFic Railroad Company, SECRETARY'S OFFice, 54 William Street, New York, November 17, 1862. Pursuant to the authority vested in them by the act incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and by the commissioners of said company, at their meeting, held at Chicago, on the 2d day of September, 1862, the officers of the company hereby direct that the books of subscription to its capital stock, and committed to your charge, be closed after the same shall have remained open for subscription for at least 15 days, exclusive of Sundays, from and after the 5th day of November, instant, at 12 o'clock at noon; and you are requested to forward immediately to the office of the secretary, in this city, such books, with a statement of the amount subscribed, and of your action in the premises, agreeably to the letter of instruction accompanying the said books. By order of the officers of said company, To HENRY V. POOR, Secretary. Pursuant to the foregoing notifications and instructions, the books of subscription to the capital stock of said company were returned to the office of said company, they having first remained open for subscription to the capital stock of said company in each place designated for at least fifteen days, as provided in the act incorporating said company, and upon said books twenty-two shares were subscribed to the capital stock of said company, as follows: Upon the books opened in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, five shares were subscribed by William M. McPherson, and ten per cent. thereon paid in to the treasurer of the company; upon the books opened in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, five shares were subscribed by George A. Thompson. and ten per cent. thereon paid into the treasury of said company; upon the books opened in Omaha, Nebraska, twelve shares were subscribed by the following persons: by Augustus Kountze, five shares; by Francis Smith, one share; by John Rickby, one share; by O. P. Hospord, one share; by James G. Megeath, one share; George R. Smith, one share; John McCormick, one share; and W. J. Sweesey, one share; upon all of which ten per cent. of the amount was paid into the treasury of the company; and the aforesaid subscriptions are all that have, up to the date hereof, been made to the capital stock of said company. The books opened in the city of New York have remained opened for subscription to the capital stock of said company. WILLIAM B. OGDEN, President. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, It having been made to appear to the president and secretary of the board of commissioners of the Union Pacific Railroad Company that at least 2,000 shares had, in good faith, been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and that ten per centum thereon had been paid into the treasury of said company by the following parties, to wit: And the said president and secretary of said company, agreeably to the provisions of the act incorporating eaid company, and the duties imposed upon them in said act, appointed the 29th day of October, 1863, at noon, and the office of said company, 54 William street, in the city of New York, as the time and place for the first meeting of the subscribers to the stock of said company, and gave notice thereof in at least one newspaper in each State in which subscription books had been opened, at least thirty days previous to the day of meeting, of which notice (with the exception of the notices published in the States of Oregon and California) the following is a copy, to wit: Notice.-Union Pacific Railroad Company. Two thousand shares of the capital stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company having been subscribed, and ten per cent. thereon paid to the treasurer of said company, a meeting of the subscribers to the stock of said company, for the election of directors thereof, for the adoption of by-laws, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting, will be held at the office of said company, 54 William street, in the city of New York, on the 29th day of October next, at noon. NEW YORK, September 25, 1863. WM. B OGDEN, President. Meeting of the subscribers to the capital stock of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, for choice of directors. Pursuant to the appointment by the president and secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, of the time and place of the first meeting of the subscribers to the stock of said company, such subscribers met at the office of the company, 54 William street, in the city of New York, at noon, and organized by the choice of Hon. George Opdyke, one of their number, as chairman, and Henry V. Poor, one of their number, as secretary. Mr. Pruyn offered the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That in pursuance to the authority conferred by the charter in this |