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Freeport City Railway Charter Passes Senate 1867
The Freeport City Railway Charter tightens control by local boards, bans steam engines, requires city ratification, and sets conditions on one mile outside city limits. It creates a public corporation to build track, with annual earnings payments to the city and a possible city take over after thirty years.
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J. M. Bailey
Freeport City Railway Company
Senate
House
Board of Supervisors
General Assembly
Springfield
Freeport
Stephenson
State of
Illinois
Illinois, In, Over Anid
Stephenson Street
Walnut Street
Illinois Central Railroad
Board of Directors
Shortion
United States
Jincorporation
City Railway
Circuit Court