| Office of the Memphis El Paso & Pacific Rail Road
Company Paris Texas |
| October 14th 1861 |
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| To the Hon. C. R. Johns, Comptroller for the State of
Texas |
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| We, the President and Treasurer of the
Memphis El Paso & Pacific Rail Road Company, respectfully submit
the following report of the operations of said Company for the year
ending June 1st 1861, in compliance with 18th section of an "Act
to regulate Rail Road Companies" approved Feb. 7th 1853. |
| First |
| The capital stock of this Company has
been fixed at |
$ 1,200,000 |
| Stock actually taken |
$ 1,000,245 |
| Amount paid into the hands of the
Treasurer & Collecting Agents since organization
of Co. (about) |
$ 170,000 |
|
| Second |
| Nothing expended for Lands |
| Expended for buildings |
$ 1,300 |
| Expended for Engines & Cars |
$ 6,983.33 |
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| Third |
| Indebtedness of Company, outstanding Drafts |
about $ 34,000 |
| Due Company from Stockholders |
$ 186,000 |
|
| Fourth |
Nothing to report under this head |
| Fifth |
Nothing to report under this head |
| Sixth |
| Amount paid on Engine |
$ 1,750 |
|
"
" Passenger Car |
$ 733.33 |
|
"
" Platform Cars |
$ 4,500 |
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"
" buildings |
$ 1,300 |
| Salaries of officers per annum |
$ 7,100 |
| Salaries suspended May 1st 1861 |
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| Seventh |
No dividends |
| Eighth |
One Engine house & one Engine and ten Platform Cars |
| Ninth |
Nothing to report under this head |
| Tenth |
Two Contractors, employing about two hundred men on Road Grade |
| Eleventh |
No persons injured in life or limb |
| Twelfth |
Nothing to report under this head |
| Thirteenth |
Forty thousand acres of the Lands donated by the State,
together with two hundred & thirty seven certificates for six hundred
and forty acres each have been sold by this Company. There are yet on hand
sixty one certificates for six hundred and forty acres each |
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| There being no superintendent, and the
President being absent this is signed by the Vice President. |
| T. G. Wright |
| Vice President |
| MEP&P RR Company |
| Wm Branlette Treas |
| MEP&P RR Co. |
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| Sworn to before me |
| October 14th AD 1861 |
| E. Collins |
| Chief Justice |
| Lamar County, Texas |
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