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Hazard versus Thomas C. Durant depositons, numbers 1-15, 1859-1880

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the Company, the Credit Mobilier Int No 160 Have you got the original of that? Ans No 160 No, sir; I have not. Int No 161 Do you know where it is? Ans No 161 No, sir; a copy of the original paper is contained in the Record book of the Credit Mobilier of America Int No 162 Please to read from the record what it says about it? Read from the place where it begins "Copy of subscription paper" down to the end? Objected to as not the best evidence. Ans No 162 "Copy of subscription paper. We the undersigned do hereby subscribe for the number of shares set opposite our respective names in the Capital Stock of the Credit Mobilier of America, a Corporation duly incorporated by an act of Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania under the title of "The Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency", the 1st day of November, 1859, said title being changed by the Legislature aforesaid, March 20th, 1864, to that of the "Credit Mobilier of America", on the following condition: That there be delegated the full powers of the Board of Directors to the New York Agency; that a Railway Bureau be established at said agency to consist of a Board of five managers, three of whom shall be Directors of the
 
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