Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1836-05-27
VOL. II
AN ACT
... AN ACT
10 incorporate the YeIIOtO Greek, Carroll
ton and ZoGr Rail Road COMPANY.

Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That Ja-
cob Croft, William Mccullough, Jacob
Nesly, Na'hanierM Myers, ToIbert Town.
send, James Mitchell, John Croxton, A
braham Myers, Thomas George, Morde-
cal Moore, Robert George, Jacob Lewton
William Mills, James Smith, John Pearce
William Johnston, James Sinclair, John
Beatty, Isaac Atkinson, Kendall Jackson
J.B. Emery, Jacob Champer, Edward
M'Guire, Robert OgIe, Jacob Shaffer,
George Davis, James BoreIand, James Da
Wis, ROdoIPhus Roe, Edmund Ogden, Dan
isl MGreggor, Robert Meek, John Cross,
David Mcconnell, Joseph Van Buskirk,
!. s. LaPpen, Joseph M, Bimeer, Solo
mon Sala, Lewis Burk, Christian Ruoof,
Jacob Ackerman, George GazeIy, Jacob
SINven and Casper Fetlers, oflhe State Of
Ohio, their associates and Successors be
Rnd they ure hereby constituted and made
a body polite and corporate, and shall re
main q corporation forever. under the
name Of the YeiIo'o Creek, CarrOltton &
Zodr Kali ROad Company, and, by that
name, may sue and prosecute, and be sued
and prosecuted, 10 final Judgement and eX
ecuton in all courts having competent ju
risdlctlOn, and may have common seal
and the same alter and renew at pleasure,
and shall be and hereby are vested with
all the pow,rs or privileges which are by
law incident 10 corporations of similar
nature, and which are necessary for the
purpose OF constructing sing lie or dOu-
be rail way or road, from the mouth of
Big Yellow creek,In Jefferson county, 0
and thence by such route as, after due ex
animation and survey, shall be found 10
be most eligible, 10 point in the main
street ia the town ofCarrolIton, in Carroll
county, where Lisbon street crosses said
main street, thence by way of Lisbon and
canal street, by such route as, after due
examination and survey, shall be found
most eligible, through the village of Zoar
to the line Of the Ohio canal,
Sec. 2. ThatI( the corporation hereby
created shall no:, within five years from
the passage If This act, commence, and
within fifteen years thereafter, construct,
finish, and put in operation the said sin
gle or double rail road or way, then the
said corporation shall thencelorth cease,
and this act shall be null and void.
Sec, 3. That the capital stock Of SAID
company shall be one million Of dollars,
and shall be divided into shares of fifty
dollars each, which shall be deemed per-
sonat property, and transferable in such
manner as the by laws Of said company
shall direct.
See, 4, That the persons named in the
FIRST section of this act, or any fifteen or
more Of ti,em, who may consent to act as
such, shall be commissioners, whose duty
it shall be, so soon after the taking effect
ofthis act, as majority of them tina. will
Ugree 10 act, shall judge proper, to cause
books to be opened at such time and place
as they shall think Gt, in the States Of D.
hio, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. under
the management Of such persons as they
shall appoint, for receiving subscri Pllons
10 the capital stock Of said company, each
subscriber to be member Of the corpora
tion, for all purposes, and public notice
shall be given in such manner as may be
deemed advisable Ivy said commission =
ers, or majority Of them, may prescribe
the form of said subscription; and when
the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall
have been subscribed, it shall be the duty
OfsaiJ commissioners, or majority Ol
them, to call meeting OF the subscribers
by causing notice 10 be published in one
or mere newspapers in general cIrcula-
Ion iu the respective places in which
the books may have 0eGn opened, and
stock subscribed, at least twenty days
previous thereto, Of the time and place ol
eu;h meeting which shall be at some con
veuicut town or place near the route OF
the contemplated rail road; at which NEE
ling tie Stockholders whe shall attend III
person, or hy lawful proxy, shall elect
thirteen directors, who shall hold their ol
fees until the expiration Of! one year, aud
until others shall be chosen ~ their Pla
ces; aLd sald commissioners shall be IN
speclOrs Of The first election of directors
M the said corporation. and shall certify
under their hands the names ofthose du-
Iy elected, and shall deliver over to
them the said certificate and subscription
books.
Sec. 5, The management of the con-
Gems Of said corporation shall be entrust
ed TO thirteen directors, TO be elected an
HuulIy by the stockholders, by ballot, ant
the directors first chosen, at any subse-
qucnt election, shall Immediately there
after meet and elect one Of their number
who shall be president thereof until an
other election, and also appoint treas
urer and secretary, who may be removed
nt the Measure of said president and di.