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Show I uion Pacific Kuilrontl Election, Elec-tion, ol' I rectors. New York, 10. The meeting of directorsoi the U. P. K. R. company in Boston to-day, adopted resolutions authorizing the directors to pay from the surplus earnings a dividend at the rate of ix per cent, per annum, payable pay-able quarterly, beginning on the first of July, 1875; also authorizing the directors to consummate tlie plan proposing pro-posing the payment into the United States treasury of a fixed sum to form a sinking fund to pay the government debt and interest, in lieu of all demands de-mands of the government upon the company. Ol the 307,450 shares of tho com-pany, com-pany, 39,6(j8 were cast for the following follow-ing board of directors: Oliver Ames, Elisha Atkins, F. Gordon Dexter, Benjamin E. Bates, Oliver Amei 2d, and Ezra Baker, of Beston; Sidney Dillon, Charles J. Osborn, Jay Gould, George S. Scott, Samuel Si. Mills, James D. Smith, Joseph RicharJson, of New York; G. M. Bodge, Iowa; John Sharp, Salt Lako city. It whs resolved that a suitable and permanent monument be erected on the line of the road to the memory of Oakes Ames. |