A meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Madison & Beloit Railroad Company was held at Janesville, with stock subscriptions agreed to.

The evidence

• “This urgency was not without its effect, as a meeting was promptly called, to be held at Janesville, an account of the proceedings of which appears in the Gazette of December 29, 1848, At a meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Madison & Beloit Railroad Company, held pursuant to public notice at Janesville on the 20th of December, 1848, on motion of A. Hyatt Smith, Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/10-rock-county-ch04-early-maps-courts-railroads.md, PDF p. 379 / book p. 383

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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