The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-08
)NEsDAY MORNING, JANUARY s. 1868.
The road bed is now in q satisfactory

The road-bed is now IN q Satisfactory
condition for present operations. The sta
tion-house at Meadow will be shortly re-
moved to some point near Sayage's, abou
nine miles from Richmond, and rebuilt
New station-houses have been built a
Summit and Tunstalps; others will bt
built, as the road progresses, at such points
as they may be required.
No detailed estimate is now given fol
the completion of the road to the White
House. 100000 in cash will enable Us tt
run cars through and connect with steam
ers at West Point, and give such whart
facilities and accommodations as will be
required for months, and perhaps for the
first year. It will require quite q large
further expenditure to complete and equip
the whole road to West Point, with pas.
senger and freight sheds and other neces'
sary structures. When the road is once
running through, these additional expendi.
lures can be readily provided for.
On motion of Mr.. Douglas, the Presi.
dents report was received and laid on the
table,
CONSOLIDATION WITH RICHMOND AND DAN
T. VILE RAILROAD.
The President addressed the meeting
on this subject at considerable length.
Judge Onld offered the following:
!, G Resolued, That committee Of 6ve be
appointed to inquire into the propriety OF
consolidating the Richmond and York
River railroad with the Richmond and
DanviIle railroad, or Of making close con-
nections Herewith, and report to a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Richmond
and York River railroad to be held on the
first Tuesday in February next"
The resolution was opposed by Mr.. AL
exander Dudley and Mr.. B. R. Wexford,
who moved as substitute the following:
4. 6 Whereas, in the opinion of the stock
holders of this company, it is matter OF
prime Importance that the road should be
completed with as little delay as practica-
BILE to West P Point, and thence to some point
on Chesapeake bay, so as to consummate a
through connection northward with the
railroads on the eastern shore of Mary
land, and that connecting link of rail-
road through the city of Richmond should
be built, so as to consummate with the Dam
Vile road a connection southwark; and it
is believed that these objects are equally
10 Inc lQUeToSG VI GuO ltiShAAAono osao 'OSA
Vile Railroad Company; therefore
"Resolued, That the Board of Directors
be requested and instructed to negotiate
with the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company for united efforts to accomplish
these results, and that they be, and are
hereby, invested with all authority which
they may need from the stockholders OF
the company to consummate any negotla;,
tion which may seem to them judicious and
calculated to facilitate such object"
A scaled vote being taken, this substl-
tute was adopted; the State voting in the
affirmative.
DR.. D. B. Smith, one of the State prox-
les, dissented from the opinion of his col
leagues.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Mr.. Alexander Dudley was unanimously
reelected President of the Company.
Colonel W. W. Gordon was elected to
fill a vacancy in the Board of Directors.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
Examining Conamittee.-E. S. Acree and
William M. Gary.
On Accounts.-R. A. Paine, John Doo-
ley, John G. SPOTS.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.