| I Jno. A. Williams hereby certify and
affirm that the Buffalo Bayou Brazos & Colorado Railway Co. have
completed and have now in actual use Eighty Miles Six Hundred &
seventeen thousandths of a mile of main track, extending from
Harrisburg in Harris County to Alleyton Depot (about 2 1/2 miles East
from Columbus) in Colorado County. |
| That the said Company has completed, under
my direction as Chief Engineer, in addition to the main track as above
stated, Two Miles & Five Hundred fifty-two thousandths of a mile
of Turnouts or Side Tracks. |
| Main Track |
80 617/10000 |
Miles |
| Turnouts |
2 552/1000 |
" |
| Total |
83 160/1000 |
Miles |
|
| That the said Company have built their
entire road and turnouts with Rails of the full weight prescribed by
the General R. R. law; that they have filed Maps & profiles as
required, and generally so complied with all the Laws applicable to
Railroads, a to entitle said Company to the benefits of the Acts of
the Legislature passed to encourage the construction of Railroads. |
| Jno. A. Williams |
| (Late) Chief Engineer |
| |
| State of Texas |
| Harris County |
| Harrisburg April 15, 1861 |
| |
| Personally appeared before me L. C.
Butcher an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jno. A.
Williams and made oath to the truth of the above declaration. |
| Witness my hand L. C. Butcher J. P. H. C. |