The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-04-01


Road Company, approved, LIST February
l84l.
Section !. Be ii enacteddy Tie LegtsIat@fe .
The State Of .AIississipa, That 50 much OF nt
original act, to which this is an amendment
as requires the assent OF the Mississippi Ran
Road Company, to the construction OF SAID
Road, before said act shall take eject and be
in force, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec g BE ii forLter enacted, That the said
Company, majority OF the commissioners
before is organization, shah have power to
contract with the owne,s, or legally constltHt-
ed agents of the Vichsburg and Jackson Rail
Road Company, for the rates of freight and pas
sage on the latter road, of all Goods, wares and
merchandise, produce, stock, Rai! Road Late
rails and persons, TO be transported 10 and from
Vicksburg, from the city OF Jackson or the
| junction of said roads, or to aud from Canton
to Jackson, or the junction Of said roads, or to
any intermediate point ON said Canton and
jackson Rail Road, as Seli also, as to contract
with said Nlcksburg and Jackson Raj Road
Company, in relation to the use Of locomotives
ting the transportation on the said road
Sec. 3. Be IL further enacted, That the Rail
Road provided for in tits act. and that to which
this is an amendment, may be united with the
Vicksburg and Jackson RGil Road, at Jackson
or at any other point west Of Jackson on said
Rail Road to which the said Company may
deem it cXpedicnt to construct the same.
Sec. 4 BE IL (,1rtter enacted, That it shall
not be necessary to the lawful progress and
construction of said Road, that books shall be
city OF Jackson, as provided for in the first
section Of the original act 10 which this is an
amendment.
Sec. 3. BE 1t further enacted, That the fol-
lowing persons be, and they are hereby APP
pointed commissioners, in ace OF all Others
heretofore appointed, to open books tor the
subscription OF stock, in the town of Canton,
to-wit; J. J, Pugh, Robert Love, John Mont
Wesley Drane, J. 5. Prichard, L. D.
Ward and VIM. d. Henry, or majority of
them; and tina. they shall have power to fill
and appoint a Treasurer, TO receive
and safely keep all moneys paid in on stock, or
for other purposes; and that they shall take
bond from said Treasurer for the safe keeping
and delivery OF the same to themselves or their
successors in Office.
Sec. 6. BE ii further enacted, That the fol-
owing persons are hereby appointed superiu-
endents OF books, to be opened for subscrip-
ion OF stock in the following places, to-wit
n the town ct Camden, John lIargan, 4.
A. S. MITCHELL Samuel Hamhlin,
William Hemingway and Solomon Wilder, or
| majority Of them in the town Of Carthage,
Robert f.. llalford, Patrick Sharkoy, Wllium
Hall and Turner B, Harris, or a majority o.
hem; in the town of Kosciusko, Silas II.
clark, Lewis A. Powell, Il. II. Saunders and
I. T. AsA,.e, esr u'-ss-., oA'"em' mud m
the town OF Louis ille, James y. McClellund,
James B. Meeks, John II. Hardy. Geo. Dyrum.
Robert S. Hudson, E. c. Gray, or a majority
Of them.
Sec. 7. Be IL further enacted, That the sup |
and commissioners shall open |
said books on the first Monday in March next,
and keep them open for the space Of six |
months, unless the whole amount Of capital /
stock be sooner subscribed; and that SAID gu
peTintendents shall likewise appoin, Treas
lrer, and take bond for the faithful per'or-
nance of his duties, PAYABLE to the commits
ioners aforesaid, and that he shall safely keep
md pay over all moneys received by him to
aid commissioners.
Sec. 0. Be IL further enecGed, That the Prcs-
dent with the consent of majority Of the
rcctors when elected, or said commissioners
elore, shall have power to pledge by contract,
he revenue Of said road, for the purchase Of
ION railing, or other materials to be furnished
Dr. its construction.
Sec. 9. BE ii ftfLicr enacted, That the .urth-
r time of ten years be given to the cominis-
oners Of the said road iorprocuring subscIip-
ons of stock; and that this act shall take ei-
ct from and after its passage.
Sec. 10 BS ii further enacted, That the
ock subscribed under the provisions of this
II, shall be exempted by law from taxation
" the term of twenty years.
Approved Feb. 9Th, i848.