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

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the [?] was completed, amended so as to give the Company the whole as [?] as Completed
401 - Q. Any other? 
A. It is pretty difficult to recollect every thing that we studied in 7 months
The restriction as to any amount of stock that any one party should hold was reviewed.
They had coal and iron lands not reserved by the Government.
I think the time for filing the Map - the location I mean - was extended for one year.
The prioritize of commencing the heavy work in the Rocky Mountains before the road had reached there.
And to allow Government Bonds [with?] Certificate of Engineers.
I think also we got an Amendment [?] to bridge rights - bridge rights. I think so but I am not positive
The length of the sections on which they issued bonds was reduced from 40 to 20 miles
And the provision that no bonds should be issued from the Union Pacific [p?] until the [illegible]

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the [?] was completed, amended so as to give the Company the whole as [?] as Completed 401 - Q. Any other? A. It is pretty difficult to recollect every thing that we studied in 7 months The restriction as to any amount of stock that any one party should hold was reviewed. They had coal and iron lands not reserved by the Government. I think the time for filing the Map - the location I mean - was extended for one year. The prioritize of commencing the heavy work in the Rocky Mountains before the road had reached there. And to allow Government Bonds [with?] Certificate of Engineers. I think also we got an Amendment [?] to bridge rights - bridge rights. I think so but I am not positive The length of the sections on which they issued bonds was reduced from 40 to 20 miles And the provision that no bonds should be issued from the Union Pacific [p?] until the [illegible]