Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-03-12
mo. 81
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An Ordinance to incorporate the Piedmont Rail
Road Company.


An Ordinance to incorporate the Piedmont Rail
Road Company.
!. Be II ordained hy the delegates Of the pcopls
nf Worth Caro'inn, IN Convention assembled, and it
is hereby ordaiaei by the authority Of the same,
That company by the name and style OF the "Pied
mont Railroad Company" be- and the same is here
by Incorporated with capital stock of fifteen hun
drea thousand dollars, divided into shares OF one
hundred dollars each, fer the purpose Of construct
ing railroad on the best cheapest, most direct and
practicable route from the Richmond and DanTille
Railroad to the North Carolina Railroad.
9. Be it .turther ordained, That for the purpose
of creating the capital stock Of said company, the
following persons be- and they are hereby appointed
general commissioners: William I. SutheriIn, OF
Danville; William p Watt, John II. Billiard Geo.
u. Boyd and William B. Carter, of Rockingham;
Phil Barrow, John F. Poin0exter and A. J. Stat
ford, of Forsyth county; William y. Lash, John j.
Martin and James Rnson. OF Stokes county; Jesse
Ii. Lindsay, Lew NJ. Scott and Ralph Gorrel Of
Guilford county; Bedford Brown, Thomas d. John
ston, Allen Green and Montlord Niece, of Caswe!l
county; Giles Mebane, Jesse Cant and Eli +. Wat
son. Of Ala,nance; John w. Cunningham, Edwin
G. Reade and Thomas Niece, Of the county Of Per-
son; William Johnston, of the town of Charlotte;
James G. Turrcntine and William +. Stray horn, Of
the county of Orange; Benjamin A. Kittrell, Of the
town of lexington Ii. G. Jones', ST., of Salisbury;
Jonathan WORTH of the town of ASHFORD; VIM.
+. VI FttSouIO, NuoSe uuty IL Stldll Oc W
direct the opening of books for subscriptions of
stock at such ii mes and places and under such per-
as they, or majority of them, may deem proper,
and in the mean time it shall and may be lawful for
books of subscription to said stock to be opened in
the town of Charlotte under the direction of John
A. Young WIN. Johnston and James w. Osborne,
or any one of them in Concord under the direc
ton of V. c. Barringer, Calico Philer and Daniel
Coleman, or any one Of them; in Salisbury under
the direction OF Nathaniel Boyden, N. N. Fleming
j. |. Shaver, any Of them; at Lexington under
the direction Of Vim. r. Holt, John P. Mabrey and
Samuet Hargrave, any of them; at High
Point under the direction of W. F. Bowman, Dr.
! Robert Lindsay and Nathan Hunt, or any one of
them; at Greensboro under the direction Of James
Sloan, Jed. H. Lindsay and j. A. Long, or any one
| of them; at Salem under the direction ot ID. II.
Starbuck, j. G. LASH Francis Fries and C. L. Ban
| ner, or any of them; at Danbury under the d.
rection of Nathaniel Moody, A. II. Joyce and S.
| Taylor, or any one of them; at Graham under the
direction OF Thomas Rufin DR., John Trollinger
and Edward Holt, or any one Of them; at Roxboro'
Jordan and Green Williams or any one of them ;
at Yanceyve under the direction of John Kerr,
| DR.. NJ NJ. Roam and Thomas W. Graves or any
one of them at Milton under the direction Of Sam
| uel Watkins; John Wilson and Thomas Donoho. or
any one OF them; at Wentworth uuder the direc-
ton Of John W. Ellington, w. 81 Ellington and B.
! j. Low or any one of them; at Madison under the
direction of VIM. L. Scales, Joseph II. Cardwell
and Nicholas Dalton, or any one of chem; at Leaks
vile under the direction Of George L. Aiken, Jones
w. Burton and E.. T. Brodnax, or any one q them
at High Rock ur,,ler the direction Of Francis L
Simpson, DR.. Il. h. Scales and George W. Garrett,
or any one of them; at sDaayilte, Va, under the
direction of William 4. Sutherlin, James M Viii.
liasas and Dr. 7. 2. -AskiudE uf any ohs uf shem