The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-30
in, then Directors were to be elected. The
| 18th Section of the act, reads as follows:

III, lHen DIRECTORS were W 10 OiOSUOA' AS
10Th Section of the act, reads as follows:
Whenever the President of this company
shall file with the Governor list of the sub
scribers to st ;ck in said company, with the
amount of stock Of each subscriber and shall
add to such list his affidavit that said sub
scrihers have subscribed for fifty thousand
dollars of stock in said company, and that in
his opinion, the same good and collectabie,
and that said subscribers have paid to said
corporation, five thousand dollars on account
of said subscriptions, then it shall be the duty
of the Governor, within ten days to issue his
proclamation declaring said corporation fully
organized; and that said corporation, is fully
authorized to take possession of the New AL
bany and Vincennes Mc'Adamized Road, and
then said corporation shall be fully empower
ed to take possession Of, occupy and use the
New Albany and Vincennes McAdamized
Road, from New Albany to Vincennes, and
all the rights and privileges, heretofore belong
| ing to the State of Indiana in regard to said
McAdamized Road, from said New Albany to
Vincennes, together with the gates and houses
erected for gate keepers, be, and the same are
hereby transferred to- and vested in said COR
poration."
Thus was the road which cost the State
$718,741 90, yielding an annual revenue of
over S12, 800, given away to ASHBEL P.
WILLARD and others. But who submitted
this bill, which subsequently became a law, to
the Legislature ? Let US see. See journal
ofthe House Of Representatives for 1850 81,
page All
Mr.. Willard, from select committee, made
the following report:
| 80 kc
whom was referred the petition Of citizens rel
alive to the Vincennes and New Albany ma
cadamized road, have requested me to report
the accompanying bill and recommend its pas
sage:
No. 265 A bill to incorporate the New al
bany and Vincennes plank road company
which was read first time, the rule was Their
suspended, the bill read second time and or
dered to be engrossed.
This is the history of the affair, and the bill
was put through in real clap-trap style, and
one of the best Improvements of the State o
Indiana given to Willard and others!
On the 10Th of December, 1851, the Paol
Eagle, no'0 supporter of this man Willard
published the following:
r The New Albany Ledger, and some othel
papers are urging the nomination of Mr., vii
lard, of New Albany, as a candidate for Lieut.
Governor. We do not know how Mr.. VII
! lard will take in other parts of the State, bu
we know he will not take a0eU an this section
No man that is connected a1jth the Neo0 Allan!
and Knceanes SWINDLE will receive yer,
good vote from people interested in the road
n Mr. Willard was one of the prime nloUers ii
that transaction, and he made snug little forum
off Of the people, 20thout ats costing him one Gem
> 1t wifi be the better policy Of the Denioerac.
a to let him remain private citizen. If Ia
n should receive the nomination he will be sc
: nous drawback upon our ticket in this part @
:, the State. At our next election we viii haY
. 4 large number of officers to eject, ana it is al
important that the Convention should selee
4 the very best men we have in our party as can
didates-men that will not be a weight upoI
the party
We hope all Old Liners in this settlement
will erani'ie the record, and if according to Dem
4 ocratic Authority, Willard was SWINDDEl
$ in 1851, what is he noao2 Whatever he ma.
: be, he is not the man who should receive tn
votes of honest men. or of truthful and respect
# able men, for an office which should be file
: by man above all suspicion in personal III
tegrity and honor. By documentary eEidenc
which cannot be disputed, Judge Baker ha
"A proved Willard a slanderer and sWindler.
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