Brooks  being  entitled  to  have  50  per  cent,
more  stock  by  virtue  of  his  ownership  of
the  hundred  shares.  Neither  Brooks  nor
Durant  thought  of  any  such  thing.
Some  time  after  the  transfer  of  the
shares  to  Neilson,  Mr.  Brooks  called  on
Sidney  Dillon,  then  the  president  of  the
Credit  Mobilier,  and  claimed  he  or  Neilson
was  entitled  to  fifty  additional  shares  of
the  stock,  by  virtue  of  the  purchase  of  the
one  hundred  shares  of  Durant.
This  was  claimed  by  Mr.  Brooks  as  his
right  by  virtue  of  the  50  per  cent,  increase
of  the  stock  hereinbefore  described.  Mr.
Dillon  said  he  did  not  know  how  that  was,
but  he  would  consult  the  leading  stock
holders,  and  be  governed  by  them.  Mr.
Dillon,  in  order  to  justify  himself  in  the
transaction,  got  up  a  paper  authorizing  the
issue  of  fifty  shares  of  the  stock  to  Mr.
Brooks,  and  procured  it  to  be  signed  by
most  of  the  principal  shareholders.  After
this  had  been  done,  an  entry  of  fifty  shares
was  made  on  the  stock-ledger  to  some  per
son  other  than  Neilson.  The  name  in  two
places  on  the  book  has  been  erased,  and
the  name  of  Neilson  inserted.  The  com
mittee  are  satisfied  that  the  stock  was  first
entered  on  the  books  in  Mr.  Brooks's  name.
Mr.  Neilson  soon  after  called  for  the  cer-


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tificate  for  the  fifty  shares,  and  on  the  29th
of  February,  1868,  the  certificate  was  issued
to  him,  and  the  entry  on  the  stock-book
was  changed  to  Neilson.
