burg Railroad Company may hereafter become merged into, or a part of, by consolidation or otherwise, be and are hereby respectively authorized and. empowered to enter into such contract or contracts with each other relative to the location and maintaining at such city of the machine shop? of said railroad company, as they may mutually agree upon, together with such limitation, conditions, privileges, immunities, ex- emptions from city taxation, settlement of all claims . . . and such other thin?s as may be decided and/nutually agreed on between said city of Vicksburg and said railroad corn-' party," etc. Under this antherity, on August 11, 1885, a contract was made with the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Company, one of who?e constituent companies was the Mem- phis and Vicksburg Railroad Company, named in the act above set forth. The pertinent parts of that contrac? am. 'as follo?: "Second. Said city agrees to and does hereby exempt from all municipal taxation for a period of ninety-nine years all of the property used or which shall Or may be used for ?[racks, switches, depots, machine shops, rolling stock, and any and all other railway purposes (except only buildin? for residences or stores) of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas R?llway Company dr of its successors, or of any company into which it may from time to time be merged by consolidation or other�se, & of any company which, upon foreclozure or reorganiza- tion, may become the owners of' its line of railroad within said city. "Sixth. The general or main building, repairing and ma- chine shops of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Ha'd- way Company, or its successors, [shall be] located and shall be permanently kept and maintained within the present limits of the city of Vicksburg, north of Fairground street, and any failure so to do shall forfeit to the city all lands granted to said railway company by the city, and all lands purchased by said railway company for and on which to locate said shops
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