Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-30
counsel for 1. o. Telegraph Comnany

JAMES HUGHES,
counsel for 1. o. Telegraph COmnany
A BILL TO be entitled sAn act to alter and
amend an act to incorporate the Florida Tele.
graph Company, and declaratory thereof.
The people OF the State of Florida, represent
ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
Sec. /. That sections L. q g. and of this act
shall stand and be taken and construed as sec
tons T. 5, 6, =, and of an act entitled an act 20
incorporate the Florida Telegraph Company,
passed at this session of the General Assembly,
which said act is as follows: "An act TO incor-
porate the Florida Telegraph Company. The
people Of the State Of Florida, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
That Joseph A. Atkins, VIM. +. Robertson,
Jr., Malachi Martin, Isaac X. Roberts George
T.. Wentworth, Daniel p. Holland and VIM J.
Purman, their associates and assigns, are hereby
constituted body polite and corporate, under
the name and style of the Florida Telegraph
Company, and as such shall have and use a com
mon sea-, may sue and be sued, plead and be
implicated in any court, may purchase and hold,
sell, convey, receive and mortgage real and per-
sonal property, and sell or convey the same by
way OF title, mortgage or otherwise, and NAV
make and enforce and prescribe such bylaws
rules and regulations for the organization, man
agement, direction and interest Of said COM
pany as they may deem conducive to their in
terest, and deem best; that said company shall
have the exclusive right for twenty years TO es-
tablish, erect, operate, maintain, connect and
land telegraphic communications by lanI and
water and submarine and shore-wire lines and
cables in the State of Florida for telegraphic
puIposes, and generally to exercise the right of
eminent domain and all rights and powers incl
dent to bodies corporate and polite.
Sec 2. That said company shall have the right
10 connect their lines, or wires, or cables with
any company in or out of this State. That all the
powers and privileges, without the limitations
or provisions, contained in any telegraphie
charter, given or authorized in this State or by
authority thereof, and not conflicting with any
vested rights, is hereby vested and conferred on
this company.
Sec. 8. That all general laws, so far as they
authorize the formation of telegraphic compa-
pealed; and this act shall be held and deemed
to be public act, and all laws conflicting there
with be and they are hereby repealed"
sofid Ama the s same be 50 altered and amended as
the aforesaid act to incorporate the Florida
Telegraph Company is hereby declared TO be TO
vest no right, title or privilege in said corpora
ton or company, saving only such rights and
privileges, powers and property, as are neces-
sary for and incidental TO establishing, erecting
operating and maintaining telegraphic comm1-
cables or other conductors, by water or land, or
both, by this company, in this State.
Sec. That said company shall commence to
establish telegrsphic communication from and
70 some point or place in this State within one
year, and have completed line of telegraphic
communication from the Gulf to the Atlantic or
TO some other point in this State, not less than
one hundred miles, within three years from the
Sec. 8. That the said company shall have the
right and privilege to construct such lines
through any lands of the State, and the right of
way is hert BY given BY the same, with the right
to take and use any stone, timber, earth and
materials from any lands belonging to the State,
to be used in the construction, maintenance
and repairs Of said lines.
Sec A. Be II further enacted That the Presi-
dent and Directors Of said company are hereby
authorized to contract for and receive CONVEX
ances Of land, timber and other materials which
msy be required by the Directors in the con-
aructi0n, operating and maintenance, and re-
pair of said telegraphic lines; and when the
owner and the company cannot agree upon the
price, or when the owner is an infant, n-resi-
dent, or nop-compos mentis, then IL shall be law
full for the President and Directors of said COM
which said lands are located, who shall summon
. jury Of three disinterested freeholders a ma
Iority OF whom shall be authorized to assess the
damages and return their award or Judgment 10
ts term Of the Circuit Court of the county In
which the said lands or other property NAV he
ocated, which shall be entered by the clerk as
The judgment of the court, and execution
may issue thereon for the amount of said
Judgment and costs; before proceeding TO the
discharge OF the duties herein required. the
jurors summoned as aforesaid shall take An oath
y amrm, TO De administered by the Sheriff, that
hey win well and truly inquire in, and 10 fhe |
he owner or owners of said land or materiaIs /
oy means OF the proposed constru ction
Sec: o. That this act shall be held and deened /
pubic act, and alIlaws and parts of laws con- /
iicting with the true intent and meaning of
his act, be, and they are hereby repealed
Passed the Senate February i4th, is70'
Passed the Assembly February 18th. 1870.