The true Democrat., 1855-01-17
Little Rock, January 18th, 1855. 70 the Honorable the General Assembly y
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 tle State ot' -drkansas:
 By the action of your honorable body the Mem phis and St. Francis Plank Road Company. in self. defense, will be compelled to suspend all operation upon their road until they can have fair trial of their just and legal rights under the charter which was made by the General Assembly of this State, s proved January 1S5l
 by that charter the company took stock and have expended from sixty to eighty thousand dollars on sad road, and the company has not up to the pre- seht received enough to pay the expense of attend ing to that part which has been finished The com pany made the road much more to the interest of the pubic than the charter required them to do-andbe- cause that was done, those interested in the ferry monopoly at Memphis devised plan to cheat the company out of their charter and road by givngths company Mexican Bull for their charter and road ana the same Ferry company are now acting as the agents of the State of Arkansas to have the charter ana road forfeited to the State, because they have cheated the company out of their charter and rOad this Mexican Bull and that same Ferry company have another Mexican Bull fixed, by which the road Will belong to the Ferry company soon as the a' reverts to the State.
 The loss to the Plank Road Company every hon0' rable member of this Legislature will feel deeply so ry for, provided this Ferry company at Memphis should succeed in getting the plank road for this Mex ican Bull The Ferry Company seems to have n' cards stocked on the Plank Road Company in nG honorable Legislature, and therefore the Plank Ea' Company earnestly appeals to this honorable Essj lature to have the writ of Quo Warranto against sN company issued, served and brought to trial immeU atey so that the Plank Road Company may knQ' whether that old Ferry company gre to have the road for this Mexican Bull or not These Meu~. Bull players are complaining that the plank and w'' done by the Plank Road Company is not right, u plank IS too thick too thin too long too sno@ too wide or too narrow. The Plank Road ComPE will immediately remedy that complaint by tasll; up the plank which has been laid until the couTsg Arkansas decide the case and then if the Plank kos company have the right to proceed under their en"' ter, they will do so. k. CHEEK, Agent TOT 4,
 the Memphis & St. Francis r R' 0v N. B.-The Plank Road Company must loose ~ least thirty thousand dollars, if the State of AISA sas IS not bound to the company for damages ln.~ Mexican Bull players always keep some person 1" tween them and damage. E. U
 Lattle Rock, January Il lS0' E. CHEEK Eso., a
 Secretary qf he Memphis and T. frd'' Plank Road Conspany: ..d
 SIR-At your request, we have eXains,,b ,bs the original charter and the amended charter ol I Memphis and St. Francis Plank Road Company, aj the proceedings of the company based thereon a L have hesitation in saying that, regards the rls of said company to charge and dreceive toll for uI upon the first ten miles of said road, completed v. said company under their original charter. our oP ion is that said company have clearly and moS'"D doubtedly the right soto do. rp
 GEO. A. GALLAGHEh Jan IT I'm PIKE d CUMMINs