Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-30
Acts of the Legislature.
An Act to incorporate tho Cashiers Valley
TURNPIKE Company.

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of Representatives now met and sitting in
! General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That j. n. Garvin, II. NJ. Keith,
w. Il. Calhoun, and such other persons as
they may associate with them, be and they
are hereby authorized and empowered to
lay out, construct and keep in repair,
turnpike road, commencing at Peudleton,
in the District of Anderson, and running
ff1m thence by the most direct and practi-
cable route BY the way of Pickens Court
House, to some point on the North Carolina
line, most accessible to Cashiers Valley, in
the State of North Carolina and for the
purpose of establishing the said road, the
said F. n. Garyin, E. M. Keith, w. r..
Calhoun, and their associates, successors
and assigns shall be, and they are hereby
declared to be, body corporate aud polite,
by the name and the style of the Cashiers
Valley Turnpike Company" and shall have
! succession of officers and members to be
appointed according to the bylaws and reg
ulatlons the said Company may establish.
III. That the capital stock of the said
Company shall be fifteen thousand dollars,
in shares of twenty-five dollars each, to be
subscribed in books to be opened for that
purpose, under the direction of the corpor
ators hereinbeforc named, or a majority of
them, on such days, by such persons, and
at snch places, as they may appoint; and
when the sum of four thousand dollars shall
bu subevrihvd, rnovtins vs tho etvokirvla-
crs shall be called by the above named cor
porators, and the Company may be organic
ed by those representing majority of the
stock, each share emitting the owner to
one vote.
LII. That the said corporation shall have
power to make all such rules, regulations
and bylaws, not repugnant to the laws of
the land, as they riay deem expedienlsss
shall be able and capable in law to purchases,s
take, hold and enjoy, and the same to alien.
| atwill, any estate, real or personal, not s s
ceeding i'll value double tho amount of their
capital stock, and by tho namo aforesaid
may sue and be sued in any Court of Law
or Equity In this State may have COM
mon seal and corporate existence for the
term of twcnty-ono years (unlcss their char
ter be forfeited by law from the completion
of the said road.
Nv. That the said Company shall be al
lowed two years from the ratification of this
Act, to organise and commence the con-
struction of the road hereby authorized,
and five years from tho commencement of
the work to complete the same.
" That it shall and may be lawful for
the said Company to erect one or more toll
gates for the collection of toll, and may
take and receive, as toll for passing the
said turnpike a sum not to exceed the fol-
lowing rates, to wit: For every four-wheel
carriage drawn by two or more horses, sew
enty cents; for every buggy, or other one
horse carriage, fifty cents; for every wagon
drawn by six horses, eighty cents for cv-
cry wagon drawn by five horses, seventy
cents; for every wagon drawn by four hor-
scs, sixty cents; for every wagon drawn by
three horses, fifty cents; for every wagon
drawn by two horses, forty cents for every
wagon drawn by one horse, thirty cents !;
for every cart, or other vehicle, than as
above, twenty cents; for every loose horse
or mule, three cents per head for every
head of cattle and hogs, two cents; for ev-
cry head of sheep or goats, one cent; Pro,
Utde0, That for passing over any part of
said road less than its whole length, the
rates of toll shall be pro rata to the sums
charged for passing over the whole road.
| vi. That if any person shall wilfully des-
troy, injure or obstruct, the said road, ci my
| part thereof, such person shall be Iiabiv to
| pay treble damages to the Company, to be
recovered by action of debt in any court of
record in this State having Jurisdiction, aud
shall also be liable to indictment in tho
Court of Sessions, as for obstructing pub
lie highway, and punished by fine and inn
| prisonment, at the discretion of the court
VII. That the said Company may com
bine and unite their road with the road of
any other Company at the line of tho State
OF North Carolina, on such terms aud con
ditions as the said Companies may agree
upon.
| VIII. That for failure to keep the said
road in proper repair, after the same shall
have been completed, the said Company
| shall be liable to forfeiture of the charter
herein granted.
TX, That all questions concerning the
fright of way for said turnpike road, where
the Company and tho owners Of the land
over which the said road is to pass cannot
agree touching the same, shall be determin-
cd in tho sante nanEer as Is provided by
the tenth section Of an Act, entitled tsAn
! Act to authorize shefennation of tho Green
willie and Golumbia RAILROAD Company"
lrati6ed on the fftconth day of December, in
the year Of our lord one thousand eight
hundred and fofty4fve, for Determining
questions of frightof way for said railroad;
and in all cases Of appeal from assessments
by commissioners, full costs shall be award
| ed, and the collection therof enfoyced, as in
eases of tsespAss on the case