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real and personal estate, which may be needful to car-
ry into effect, fully, the purposes and objects of this
act.

SEC. 2.—The said corporation is hereby authorized
and empowered to purchase and hold real estate for
the purpose of mining thereon for coal; to do a gen-
eral coal mining business; to manufacture machinery
and implements necessary to the effectual carrying on
of said coal mining business, and to manufacture coal
cars in sufficient numbers and of sufficient capacity for
the use of said company in the transportation of the
product of its mines to market.

SEC. 3.—The said corporation is hereby authorized
and empowered to construct, maintain and operate a
railway for the transportation of coal, mined by said
company, with one or more tracks or lines or rail, with
all convenient turn-outs, side tracks and appendages,
from Marshfield coal mines, situated in the town of
Indian Grove, Livingston County, to Pontiac, in said
county, or to any point on the line of the Chicago,
Alton and St. Louis Rail Road, between the town of
Chenoa, in the county of McLean, and the town of
Pontiac, in said Livingston county, State in Illinois.

SEC. 4.—To enable the said corporation to construct
the railway herein authorized, and its appendages, the
said corporation is hereby vested with power to take
and apply private property for the purposes, and in
the manner prescribed by an act entitled "An act to