Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-01-08


houses, and shall be liable to the same rates
of taxation.
In the Senate House, the twenty-frst day
of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifv-eight,
and in the eighty-third year of The SOW
ereIgnty and independence of the Uni
ted States of America
W.. ID. PORTER President Of the Senate
JAMES SiMoNs,
Speaker House of Representatives.
An Act
To incorporate the Blue Ridge Mining Co.
|. BE it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same. That Henry w. Huffman, l..
Frederick Charles, William s. Grisham.
Robert Murc, William H. Middleton and
their associates and successors. are hereby
constituted Il body polite and corporate, by
the name and style of the "Bluc RIDGE
Mining Company" for the purpose of ex-
plorlnS for iron, copper and other ores, min
erals and metals, and for mining, working,
smelling, manufacturing and vending the
| same; and by that name may sue and be
sued. plead and be impleadcd. appear, pro-
secutc and defend in any Courts of Law or
Equity whatsoever, in all suits and actions;
may have a common seal, and the same al
ter at pleasure, and may purchase, hold or
convey, real estate and enjoy and have ali
the privileges incident to corporations.
H.. That the first meeting OF said corpo-
ration may be called by the persons named
IN this Act, at such time and place as may
be agreed upon by the persons named in
this Act; and mt said meeting, and all other
meetings legally notified, said corporation
may make, alter aud repeal, such bylaws
and regulations for the management of the
business OF said corporation rs majority of
the stockholders may direct, not rcpugnant
to the laws OF this State or the l.. States
I'LL That the said corporation may divide
Their original stock into such number of shares
and provide for the sale and transfer thereof
III such manner and form us said corporation
shall irnr time to time deem cxpcdent; and
the sad corporation may levy aud collect as
/ easements. forfeit and sell delinquent shares
declare and pay dividends on the shnres. in
such manner as the bylaws may direct
~. That the Directors shall cause book
to be kept containing the names of all per.
sous Who are Stockholders nfsaid Company.
showing theirplaceS ofrcSidcncc and the mum
her ot shares OF stock held hv each rcsncc-
/
pcctvcly the owners nfsaid shares. and the
nIn"nnt of stock actually bal in, which book
shall during the business hours of each Sc
cniar day. be open mt the place of business
OF said G mpany, fnr the iuSpcc ION of the
St,ckhn!ders and creditors of the Company,
ani their representatives.
V. That the capital stock said Company
shall he one hundred thnuSand dollars and
no debt shall he contracted by said Company
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no part of which shall be withdrawn, or in
any manner diverted from the business of
the Company, and shall not contract debts at
any time To an amount exceeding the amount
Uf capital stack actually paid in
vi. That this Act shall be deemed pub
lie Act and continue OF force for twenty one
years
A RELIC The Pcndcton Messenger
says I'VE have lately eXhumcd in eel
lar, of our village, the old wooden press that
the Messenger WAS first issued upon. 1t
was the identical press that Gen Greene
printed the dispatches of the army with.
1t is made mostly of mahogany To com,
pare it with the presses of the present day,
1t is indeed curiosity"
And upon this the Yorkvillc Enquirer
remarks Our "fricnd and pitcher" John
f. Grist, the veteran of the York press,
and now employed, leisurcly, in the En-
quirer Office, becime enthusiastic on read
ing of the old press, and discoursed there
upon, eloqucntly. He "served his time"
in the Messenger Office; worked it out on
Grecne's old mahogany machine; remcm-
bers every joint of its WORKOUT timbers !;
and in their mutual old age, sends greet
ing to the old veteran.
In the day of his apprenticeship, when
the Messenger was the only paper in the
State outside of Chprleston and Columbia
John Miller was his I" boss" the editor
and proprietor of this 10 by 12 pioneer.-
And John Miller was, in earlier DAYS, a
journeyman in the office of Woodfall, in
London, and set in type most of the letters
of Junius. Thus the authorship of Juni
us was made known to him but he was
faithful to the trust and the secret died
with its possessor. So it was said, long
ago inthe Messenger Office, and I" the old
man" tells it yet.