Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-08
No. S.
An Ordinance TO incorporate the Piedmont Rail
Road GOmnnmY.


An Ordinance TO incorporate the Piedmont Rail
Road Company.
l. BE IL oriained by tie deIcgates or' the 1,eoplc
cf North Caroline, IN CohreHtiaa assembled and 10
is heredJ ordained by the authority ct tie @me,
That company by the name and style of the 'Picd-
mont Railroad Company" toe, and the same is here
by Incorporated, with capital stock Of fifteen hun.
dred thousand dollars, divided into shares Of one
hundred dollars EACH for the purpose Of construct
ing railroad ON the best cheapest, most direct and
practicable route from the Richmond and Danville
Railroad TO the North-Carollna Railroad.
2: Be it farther ordained, That for the purpose
of Creating the capital stock e said company the
following persons be, and they hereby appointed
general commissioners: William I. SuthcrlIn, Of
Danyille; William p Watt John II. billiard, Geo.
ID. Boyd and William b. Carter, of Rockingham;
Phil. Barrow, John F. PoinGexter and A. j. Stat
ford, of Forsyth county; William a. LASH John j.
Martin and James RnSOn, OF Stokes county; jesse
Ii. Lin Say, Lew NJ Scott and Ralph Gorrell, of
GuilfOrd county, Bedford Brown, Thomas d. John
stOn, Allen Green and Montford McC;ee, of Caswell
county; Giles Mebane, jesse Cant and Eli f. Wat
Sun, of .llamancc; John w. Cunningham, Edwin
G. Rcadc and Thomas McCiee, of the county of Per-
SON; William Johnston, of the town of Charlotte;
James g. Turrcnune and William +. Strayhorn, of
the county of Orange; Benjamin. \. KittreIl Of the
town of Lexington; H. Z. Jones' ST., of Salisbury;
Jonathan Worth, Of the town of ASHORE; W IN.
p. Taylor, of PttSboro; whose duty it shall DC to
direct the opening of books for subscriptions of
stock at such ii mes and places and under such per-
sons they, 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 tie opened in
the town Of Charlotte under the direction Of John
y. Young, VIM Johnston and James W. Osborne,
or any one of them; i'll Concord under the dlrec
ton of '. e. Dlrilngcr, Calico Pher and Daniel
Coleman, or any one Of them; in Salisbury under
the direction OF Nathaniel Buyden, ~ n. Fleming
D. !. Shaver, or any of them; at Lexington under
the DIRECTION Of VIM. r. Holt John p Mabrey and
Samuel llarSrave, or any one OF them; at High
Point under the direction of w. T. Bowman, DIR.
Robert Lindsay and Nathan Hunt, or any one of
them; at Greensboro under the direction of James
Sloan, Jed. ii. Lindsay and j. A. Long, any one
of them; at Salem under the direction Of d. H.
Starbuek, j. e. Lash, Francis Fries and G. L. Ban
ner, or any one Of them; at Danbury under the d-
rection of Nathaniel Moody, \. II. Joyce and s.
Taylor, or any one Of them; at Graham under the
direction OF Thomas Ruflin, Jr., John Trollinger
and Edward Holt or any one Of them; at Roxboro'
under the direction of Charles NinStead DR.. G. H.
Jordan and Green Williams, any one of them !;
at Yanccyville under The direction Of John Kerr
DR.. N. NJ. Roam and Thomas w. Graves, or any
one of them; at Milton under tho direction of Sam.
| uel Watkins John Wilson aud Thomas Donoho or
any one Of them; at Wentworth uuder the drec-
| ton Of John w. Ellington w. NJ. Ellington and b.
j. Low, or any of them; at Madison under the
direction OF WIN. l.. Scales, Joseph Ii. Cardwell
and Nicholas Dalton, any one of :hem; at Leaks
willie under the direction of George L. Aiken Jones
| w. Burton and T. I. Brodnax or any one Of them :
at High Rock under the direction of Francis l.,
Simpson, DIR. r. H. Scales and George W. Garrett,
| or any one Of them at Danville, Va under the
direction of William I. Sutherlin, James NJ vii.
llans and DIR. L. p Atkinson, or any one of them ;