stockholders the said agreement shall be considered, and a vote by ballot taken, for the adoption or rejection of the same, each share entitling the holder thereof to one vote; and said ballots shall be cast in person or by proxy; and if two-thirds of all the votes of all the stockholders shall be for the adoption of said agreement, then that fact shall be certified thereon by the secretary of the respective companies under the seal thereof; and the agreement so adopted, or a certified copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, and in the office of the Secretary of this Territory, and shall from thence be deemed and taken to be the agreement and act of consolidation of the said companies; and a copy of said agreement and act of consolidation, duly certified by said Auditor, or by the Secretary of the Territory, under his official seal, shall be evidence of the existence of said new corporation; Provided, That if the mode of ratifying said agreeConsolidation ment of consolidation in such other State or Termay be rati- ritory shall vary from the mode herein prescribed, then said agreement may be ratified by the railroad company or corporation of such other State or Territory in the mode prescribed by the laws thereof.

When consolidation is completed..

fied in accordance with laws of

States, other

etc.

After Consolidation to

be known as one corpora

tion.

All rights,

SEC. 3. Upon the making and perfecting the said agreement and act of consolidation, as provided in the preceding sections, and filing the same as aforesaid, the several corporations, parties thereto, shall be deemed and taken to be one corporation, by the name provided in said agreement and act, possessing within this Territory all the rights, privileges and franchises, and subject to all the restrictions, disabilities, duties and liabilities of each of such corporations so consolidated.

SEC. 4. Upon the consummation of said consolidation as aforesaid, all and singular the rights, privileges and franchises of each of said corporafranchise, tions, parties to the same, and all the property, vested in new real, personal and mixed, and all debts due on corporations. whatever account, as well as of stock, subscrip

property, etc.,

tions and other things in action belonging to each of such corporations shall be taken and be deemed to be transferred to, and vested in such new corporation without further act or deed; and all

property, all rights of way, and all and every other interest shall be as effectually the property of the new corporation as they were of the former corporations, parties to said agreement; and the title to real estate, either by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this Territory, vested in either of such corporations, shall not be deemed to revert, or be in any way impaired by reason of this act; and all debts, liabilities, and duties of either of said companies shall thenceforth attach to said new corporation, and be enforced against it to the same extent as if said debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by it.

established.

SEC. 5. Such new company shall establishan offices may be office at some point in this Territory on the line of its road; and may change the same at pleasure, giving public notiee thereof in some newspaper published and having general circulation in the Territory.

maintained

SEC. 6. Suits may be brought and main- suits may be tained against such new company in any of the brought and courts of this Territory, for all causes of action, against. in the same manner as against other railroad companies organized under the laws of this Territory.

SEC. 7. That portion of the road of such consolidated company, and all its real estate and

other property within this Territory shall be sub- Road subject ject to like taxation, and assessed in the same to taxation. manner as property of other railroad companies within this Territory.

etc.

SEC. 8. Any railroad company organized under the laws of this Territory, may lease and May lease operate any part, or all of a railroad constructed other roads by another company, within or without this Territory; and any railroad company organized under the laws of the United States or any State or Territory may lease and operate any part or all of a railroad constructed by another company within this Territory. Such leases may be made on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon between said companies.

Approved March 4, 1882.

CHAPTER XIX.

OF COMPILED LAWS.

AN ACT amending Section 504, Compiled Laws of Utah.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Section 504 of the Compiled Laws of Utah is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: Provided, That no railroad company doing business in this Territory shall consolidate its stock, shall not con- property or franchises with' any other railroad company owning a parallel or competing line, nor to lease the property of any such other railroad company in this Territory.

When

Railroads solidate.

Approved March 6, 1882.

CHAPTER XX.

OF PAYSON CITY CHARTER.

AN ACT changing the Boundary Lines of Payson.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That section 1 of An Act to incorporate the City of Payson, approved January 20, 1865, is hereby amended by striking out after the words "commencing at," in the third line, all up to and including the word "Lake" in the tenth line of said. section, and the following substituted therefor, to

wit: The northwest corner of Township 9, south of Range 2 east, Salt Lake meridian, in Utah County, thence east three miles, thence south two and three-fourth miles, thence west three miles, thence north two and three-fourth miles, and that said section one be further amended in the eleventh line, by inserting after the word "Payson" the word City.

SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws conflicting herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 6, 1882.

CHAPTER XXI.

OF COMPILED LAWS.

AN ACT to amend Sections 839, 944 and 960 of the Compiled
Laws of Utah.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That section eight hundred and thirty-nine of the Compiled Laws of Utah is hereby amended by Amending striking out the second line of said section the Compiled words "pursuant to an order from the Probate Court."

Section 839

Laws.

Compiled

SEC. 2. Section nine hundred and forty-four Amending of said Compiled Laws of Utah is hereby amended Section 944 by adding thereto the following, to wit: Provided, Laws. That no final account of any administrator or executor shall be allowed or decree of distribution made, until at least ten days' public notice shall have been given by publication or posting, as the probate judge shall direct, stating that the same is applied for.

Amending Section 960 Compiled Laws.

SEC. 3. Section nine hundred and sixty of said Compiled Laws is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "and such decree may be enforced as is provided in section two hundred and nineteen of this act."

Approved March 7, 1882.

CHAPTER XXII.

CHANGE OF NAME.

AN ACT to Change the Name of Lars P. Christensen.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That the name of Lars P. Christensen, of Richfield, Sevier County, be changed to Lars P. Petersen, and that all legal rights in law or equity now existing in the name of Lars P. Christensen are hereby continued to Lars P. Petersen.

Approved March 8, 1882.