The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-21
srocKHoIDERs, CONVENTION.


Rail Road Company, met in the Office at Knox
willie. on the 5th day Of September. 1895. A
D. KEYEs, Esq was called to the Chair AM
LEWIS r. HuEsr and B. 3. LENoIR appointe,
Secretaries.
The Annual Reports of the President, Sec
retary and Treasurer and Superintendent o
TRANSFORMATION, were read and received, anC
five hundred copies o.s'ered to be printed.
On motion of VIM. 6. Swan, Esq, the abov,
named reports were referred to n Commute,
of five Stockholders, whose duty it shall b,
TO make full report upon the same at this OF
at an adjourned Convention of the Stock
holders, to he held hereafter at the call o
said Committee.
The Chairman appointed the following
Committee under the resolution:
Horace MAYNARD, hartman, of Knox; 7. A
Scranton, Of Georgia; }. II. Reagan, OF Nc
Mimi; NJ f. johnson, Of Monroe, and j. n
Cowan, of bradley.
The following resolution offered 10y General
Gamble, was adopted
Rcso,ced, BY the Stockholders, in Conven.
ton assembled, that they have witnessed with
pride and pleasure the completion AT d sue
cessful operation of the East Tennessee and
Georgia Rail Road since their last annual
meeting; and they feel it incumbent on them
to express in this public and emphatic form,
their high appreciation Of the industry and
faithfulness, with which the President, Direc-
tors and Officers of the Company, have CARR
ed on and successfully completed the great
work committed to heir care, in the lace OF
obstacles almost insurmountable. They de-
serve and have our thanks and gratitude and
the consolation OF knowing they have essen
italy contributed to the prosperity and hap
piness of the country.
The Convention then proceeded to the elec-
ton of nine Directors, on the part of the
Stockholders, for the ensuing year.
The election was suspended to hear mo-
ton from John II. Crozier, Esq, as follows;
RESOLVED, BY the Convention of Stockhold.
ers. that the President and Directors be, and
they are hereby, directed to postpone, or sus-
pend, il it be commenced, work ON the Cleve-
land and Chattanooga Rail Road.
During the discussion of this resolution, the
Hon. L. alexander having been alluded TO-,
leave was granted him to reply, and he took
pnrt in the discussion.
On motion of 7. j. Campbell, Esq, the reso-
luton WINS indefinitely postponed.
The Convention then proceeded with the
election, pending which, the Committee op'
pointed to report upon the reports OF the
President, Secretary and Treasurer, and SUI
perintendent Of Transportation, reported as
follows:
To the Chairman of the Convention Of Stockholders,
assembled at Knoxville, on September 9th, 1900
Your Committee appointed to examine and
report upon the fidelity and fathiuness of
The reports made by the Officers of the Com
pany to the Convention, having entered upon
theft duties, proceeded to examine with care
the several books, from which different nc
counts the several items composing the exhib-
it were derived, and such examination was
found to sustain In the most minute partcu-
lars, the balance sheet rs presented.
Your Committee find with great pleasure
that the books are accurately and faithfully
kept, and exhibit full statement of the en-
tire transactions of the Company. Your Com
hittee did not conceive that il was incum-
bent on them to examine the mass 6f vouchers
which would be required to more minutely
sustain the said balance; inasnuch Ms Finan-
cial Committee is duly appointed by the Di-
rec cora to examine the vouchers aud report
TO the Board the result Of their examina-
lions.
YourCommittee have refuly Intercepted
the several Officers of the Company, as to any
matters which were not readily understood
by the Committee, and of which the entries
in the books did not furnish the full explana
ton, and all such information was fully and
promptly furnished.
And your Committee feel it due from them
to express their entire satisfaction of the
manner in which the books and papers are
arranged that any information can be readl'
" obtained by any of the Stockholders.
Your Committee would further say, they
find each and every statement contained IN
the several reports, fully to correspond IN
every particular with the balance as brought
down on the books and that they present
full, fair aud Just statement OF the present
condition of the Company so FAR rs practical
for your Committee to ascertain
All of which is respectfully submitted.
lloRAcE MAyNARD,
NJ + JOHNSON,
i. "A. SCRANTON,
JONI n. CowAN,
j. ii. REAGAN.
This report was unanmouly adopted.
At the close ofthe election the Judges made
the following Report:
OFFICE L. TENNESSEE 4 GA RAILROAD Co,
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 9th, 1899.
We the undersigned having been appointed
Judges to hold an election for electng nine
directors in the East Tennessee and Georgia
Rail Road Company, on the purt OF the stock
holders. certify that we held said election at
the Office of the Company in Knoxville on
this day, aud that the following persons were
duly elected by the Stockholders, Directors
in said Company the ensuing year, to witt
Campbell Wallace, ID. Z. armstrong Thos.
G. Lyon Il. Sneed, Thos. IL. Galloway, VIM.
s. Galloway, Thos J. Campbell, VIM Grant
William H. Stark.
Given under our hands this 9th day OF
September. 1855 ID. L. ARMSTRONG,
X. SSEED,
WM. ). CALLAwAY.
II was resolved that the next Annual Con
vention be held at Athens.
a. D. KEYES, Chairman
d" LEWIS r. lIuEsr, S...o,or;.,
b. B. LnSom, secretaries
MURDERER ARRESTED! GREAT EXCITE
MEgr.--'l'hc runaway negro that murdered
Mrs Loyal on the Cumberland mountain
on Wednesday the 10Th ult, was caught at
the negro quarters OF Mrs. Eskridge, west OF
Kingston, on the night of the 30th ult., and
vas taken to Kingston. Our mountain cit,
liens, being in hot pursuit, soon reached
Kingston and demanded and received ms
body, and brought him on back to the neigh
borhood where she murder was committed
We understand tho negro confessed that he