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Wbereupon the President Of the Contention
announced the foregoing fifteen gentlemen, dH-
" and constitutonaIly elected Directors of the E..
II. Va. r. R. Company for the ensuing year.
C.P. Nenney introduced the following reso-
luton which after some discussion was rejected
by the convention.
Resolved That committee of three be APP
pointed, whose duty it shall be to examine into
the operations of this company including every
department. and report thereon to the Board or
Directors, or if they deem it expedient, so to do,
recommend the Board to call meeting OF the
Stockholders, to whom they Will report any mat
tiers, which they may deem necessary, 10 bring
TO their notice, and at the next annual meeting
if not before, lay before the Stockholders state
ment of the manner, in which the various Off
GERS and agents of this company have performed
their duties: Said committee to have such com
pensation per day, as shall be fixed at the first
meeting of the Board of Directors, elected
at this meeting.
Upon inquiry of Gen. A. E. Jackson whether
he desired the committee to be appointed to IN
YeStigate the case in reference to his Nashville
trip, and his trip to the North, in the service
Of the company, he replied that he did desireit
and demanded that a committee should be ap-
pointed for that purpose, and on motion OF Gen.
VIM. .Brazet0n it was therefore resolved that
q committee be appointed, whose duty 1t shall
be to examine into the whole matter, and report
to the Board of Directors, and said committee
was appointed accordingly consisting of the
following gentlemen. to wit: VIM. r. CasweIl,
VIM. NJ. Bradford and Dan. Meek.
On notion, the convention adjourned one
hour for dinner.
o'cLocK, Pa
Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
On motion Daniel Kennedy Esq, DR.. 3. +.
Mcfarland, Juo. S. Goforth, and S. N Fain,
were added to the committee to inquire into the
action of the Board of Directors in the allow
auces made to Gen. A. Z. Jackson for his SER
vices as agent.
On motion, it was resolved that 500 copies Of
the Reports Of the President, Chief Engineer,
Secretary and Treasurer Of the E. t, Va. 4. r.
Co., be printed, under the direction of the
Board Of Directors, and that the Secretary and
Treasurer pay for the same.
On motion of Maj. S. Ferguson, it was re-
solved that the thanks of this convention be
rendered to the Chief Engineer and his Assis-
tants for thsable and efficient discharge of
- ergurson, it was resolved
he +. L. & Va. Il. K. Co.
'afH Re the iron for the Road,
at the t2r'iSS-Ss@s practicable.
On motion of Mai. McGauhey it was unani-
mOusly resolved. that the thanks of this conven-
ton be rendered to the President of this con-
vention for the able and dignifed manner in
which he has presided over It's deliberations, and
that the thanks of this convention be also ten
dered to the Secretaries for the able and eff
Gent manner in which they have discharged
their duties. -.-..
On motion OF Hardin P Shannon, it was re-
resolved that the Grail Road Journal" at Jones
boro' be requested to publish the proceedings of
this convention, aud that all other papers in
East Tennessee and Western Virginia, friendly
to the enterprise be requested to copy the same,
and that the Secretaries furnish q copy for pub
LEGATION.
On motion Of Hardin P Shannon, this con-
vention adjourned to meet at Jonesboro' on the
last Thursday of November 1854, the regular
time Of meeting.
The President then announced, that the con-
vention stood adjourned to meet at Jonesboro'
on the last Thursday of November 1854.
DANIEL MEEK, Prest.
HARDIN P, SHANNON,
w. NJ. BRADFORD, Secretaries.
IF. DEADRIcK,