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CORPORATIONS. [ART. 26.

same manner, as if such debts, liabilities and duties
had been originally incurred by it.

Ibid. s. 21.

245. Any railroad company heretofore or hereafter
incorporated, may at any time, by means of subscrip-
tion to the capital of any other company, or otherwise

Company may
aid other com-
panies.

aid such company in the construction of its railroad,
for the purpose of forming a connection of said last
mentioned road with the road owned by the company
furnishing said aid ; or any railroad company organ-
ized in pursuance of law, may lease or purchase any
part, or all of any railroad, constructed by any other
company, if said companies' lines of said road are con-
tinuous or connected as aforesaid, upon such terms and
conditions as may be agreed on between said companies
respectively; or any two or more railroad companies

Lease or pur-
chase connect-
ing roads

whose lines are so connected, may enter into any ar-
rangement for their common benefit, consistent with
and calculated to promote the objects for which they

Proviso.

were created; provided, that no such aid shall be fur-
nished, nor any purchase, lease or arrangement per-
fected, until a meeting of the stockholders of each of
said companies shall have been called by the directors
thereof, at such time and place and in such manner as
they shall designate, and the holders of at least two-
thirds of the stock of such company represented at such

Stockholders
to approve.

meeting, in person or by proxy, and voting thereat,
shall have assented thereto.

Ibid. s. 26.

246. Every railroad company in the state shall cause
all its trains of cars for passengers to entirely stop upon

Trains must
stop at stations.

each arrival at a station advertised by such company as
a station for receiving passengers upon such trains, at
least one-half of one minute ; and every company, and
every person in the employment of such company, that
shall violate, or cause or permit to be violated, the pro-

Penalty.

visions of this section, shall be liable' to a forfeiture of
not more than one hundred nor less than twenty dol-
lars, to be recovered in an action of debt, upon the
complaint of any person, before any justice of the peace
of the county in which such violation shall occur ; and
in all cases in which a forfeiture shall occur under the