362 CORPORATIONS—RAILROAD. [ART. 23,

sidering the same, and shall be sanctioned by the holders of two
thirds of the stock represented at such meeting in person or by
proxy, and if sanctioned at such meeting, shall be filed in the
office of the secretary of State of this State; and provided,
further, that such agreement shall contain no provisions in con-
flict with the provisions of this article, or which shall exempt-
such railroad, so far as it lies within this State, from the opera-
tion of the laws of this State.

1886, ch. 134, sec 5.

191. Any railroad company incorporated under the provisions,
of sections 187, 188 and 189, shall also have power to purchase
or contract for the use and enjoyment, in whole or in part, of
any other railroad or railroads lying within or without this State,
if the same shall connect with or form a continuous line with
the railroad of the company incorporated under said sections.

Ibid. sec. 6.

192. Any corporation organized under the provisions of said
sections, which shall have purchased an Incompleted railroad,
shall have ten years from the date of its organization to complete,
and finish the main line of its railroad.

Ibid. sec. 7.

193. No corporation shall be established under the provisions
of said sections 187, 188 and 189, unless it shall allow and issue
to this State the same proportion of its common stock, if any, as
the State shall own of the capital stock of the corporation whose
railroad shall have been purchased as aforesaid.

1886, ch. 294, sec. 1.

194. Whenever the several railroads of this State, operated by
steam, shall cross any public highway at grade outside the cor-
porate limits of cities, and any such highway shall be believed to
be of such a character as to render the passage of locomotives and
trains thereon dangerous to life and property, it shall be the duty
of the commissioners of the county in which such point of
crossing shall be located, to notify the company owning or
operating the railroad at such point, by serving a written notice