The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-25
The aoI;Idny's Cove RnilrORd Bill.

The HOIGIiinS's Cove Railroad Bill.
The bill relating to the charter Of the
Holidays Cove Railroad Company,
which comes up in the House OF
Delegates to-day, on its third read
ing, is ono that concerns our city
readers. This Company was char
tered by the General Assembly OF
Virginia in March. 1850, 10 build the
road which has bridged the river nj
steubenville and crossed the Panhan-
die ut that point. That charter contains
the following provisions for the benefit
OF the city ofWheellng
7. Beyond laying the foundations o
the abutments and piers and raising
the masonry OF the Same to tho height
of ak feet above low water mark, nj
work shall be done either on said road
or said bridge across the Ohio river
nntIi n railroad bridge is chartered &c
he erected over the Ohio river mt or near
Wheeling, and the. piers and abut-
nents of the same built TO the height OF
ain feet above low water mark, after
which the bridge herein authorized
NAV progress to completion pdri pGSstt,
or MS nearly so as possible with the
aforementioned bridge at Wheeling.
q Prior TO the commencement of
work upOn either the road or bridge
herein authorized, two hundred thou
sand dollars must be subscribed by
GOOD parties TO the capital stock of the
aforesaid bridge company at Wheeling;
and this charter shall not be considered
ma continuing in force for any purpose
unless said bridge at Wheeling is COM
pleted and ready for use at least thirty
days before the completion and opening
for use of the road and bridge, or either,
hot q II
pauy hereby incorporated may use
said road for conveying local freight
aud travel originating between the Ohio
river and Cork's run summit tunnel on
the rittsburg and Steubenville rail-
road.
o. The company hereby incorporated
shall not open their road or bridge lex
cept as before provided) for purposes of
business until there shall be ready for
use from PittsburG to Wheeling, either
by way of the CHARTERS Valley and
Hemptield railroads, or the Pittsburg
aud Steubenville railroad, and the road
hereby Incorporated extended to
wheeling, which said extension may
be made via tho town of Wellsbnrg in
Brooke county, Virginia, fret class
railroad with proper equipments.
TO-. The charges on the limo from
PittsburR to Wheeling by either of the
lines mentioned In the ninth section,
shall not be greater in proportion 10
distance on through freight and travel
for twenty years, than on the same
classes of through freight and travel
from Pittshure to Steubenville, via the
road and bridge hereby authorized; nor
shall any discrimination be made in
the working of the road from Steuben-
Vile to Pfttsburg, to the injury of said
line from Pittsburg to Wheeling, as to
equipments. facilities for transportation
or other necessary accommodations of
trade and travel.
IL, The conditions, restrictions and
obligations herein imposed in the third,
seventh and subsequent sections, are
to be regarded as enacted for the benefit
of Wheeling, and In consideration of
the concessions by her herein made to
the parties applying for this chRrters to
such an extent land said company here
nv INCORPORATED and any other conn
pany or persons accepting or acting
under this charter or running aud
working the road and bridge hereby
authorized, shall be deemed to gnaran-
tee to Wheeling the faithful fulhilment
and obserVance of taid conditions, re:
strictlons, obligations and prohihitlons)
that said city of Wheeling may enforce
their provisions and guarantee pY IN.
junction or other legal remedy in her
own name or otherwise.
IL. II the books for the taking OF
oSN Az hns wheeling Ebi1 IOuu DElNEo
company herein before referred to (pro.
E weed said company is chartered at
thls session OF the legislature) are not
opened by the commissioners therein
appointed, within sixty days after the
SSSuElhg OF said W heeling railroad
tnstluHe charter, the restrictions, in Sec
10 aiOnS seven eight, nine and ten of this
10. Unless the charter Ia obtained
from the General Assembly OF yirginin
AT the present session TO erect ths DTn.
posed railroad bridge nj or near WhseI.
ing, this act and every part thereof sheil
be null and void. wa s1l'1i
In january, 1868, advantage was IA.
ken of the indifference felt in rep,r,l :,
matters of this kind. to slip through m,
General Assembly of the Restored Gov
eminent, an act repeating all the fore
going sections of The charter, the pur
pose OF the act being thinly covered b
provision giving the Company per
mission to construct a line OF road fror
Wellsburg to Wheeling. 1t will /
seen that the charter required the Com
pany to build a railroad bridge at thI