Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

| Uohuo VI IhiS '1Jate, III amounts not lCSS than
one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at
annually, which said bonds shal be payable
within twenty years after the final passage of
| this Act, and upon the request of the owner
or owners of such deficiency, the Treasurer
+, of this State shall issue such bond or bonds
SEC, 5. That an annual tax, in addition to
all other taxes, shall be levied upon the prop.
crty of the State sufficient to pay the interest
on the bond or bonds, hcrcinbcforc authoriz-
ca, and upon the Indebtedness arising out of
such aforementioned deficiency OF the times
when such interest slall fall due.
SEC. 5. That the Attorney General be, and
he is hereby, authorized to employ such
counsel as he may deem best for the interest
of the State, to assist him in pcrformisg the
duties imposed by this Act, and to paytherc-
for such compensation as lie shall deem lust,
which shall be paid by the State Treasurer
upon the certificate of the Attorney General.
SEC. I. All acts and parts of Acts incon-
sistcnt with this Act, are hereby repealed.
Approved March Z, 1871.
An Act to incorporate the Union Gold Min
ing Company, of South Carolina.
SECTION |. BE II enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
VI Couth Saloiihd, uoW ucG anu slCtlDS III
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same:
That Lucian IIawley, Of Washington, D.
G. Alvin II. U,lcy, Oliver Cornell and G. @.
puner, Of the County Of Union, and State of
Solth Carolina, and such other persons as
now are, or nay hereafter be, associated with
them, their successors ard assigns, be, and
they are hereby, constituted body corporate
and polite, uudcr the name and style of the
Union Cola Mining Company, by which name
and style they arc hereby made capable in
law to have, hold, purchase, receive, work,
sell, mortgage, lease, enjoy and retain to
them, their successors and assigns, lands,
tcncmcrts mines of all characters, aud chat.
tells Of Whatsoever kind, as may be deemed
by them most conducive to the objects and
interests Of said corporation which are min
ing and working for gold and other materials,
and manufacturing the same ihS Unions Coun-
ty, and other parts ofthc State of South Car
olina, and of sending the same to market.
SEC. 2. That said corporation, by its title
aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and be
implcadcd, in any Court Of this State, make
and use a common seal! altering the same at
their pleasure, establish, alter and amend
such by laws aud regulations as shall be
deemed proper by them, not in conflict with
the Constitution or laws of this State, ortthe
United States.
Sro 5. That the capital stock of said COR
poration shall be ten thousand dollars, with
the wight to increase the samc, by a vote ola
majority of the Directors, to any sum not OK.
cceding one million dollars that said Com
pany Shall commence business within sixty
days after the capital stock is fully subscribed,
and the stock may be paid either in money,
or real estate, or mining leases and machine.
ry; the same to be divided into such number
Of shares said corporation may determine;
said shares to be assgnablc and negotiable
urdcr such rules as said corporation may
prescribe
SEC. 4. That there shall be annual meet
nss of the stockholders at such time and
place as the Directors may designate for tho
purpose Of choosing Board Of Directors, to
consist Of not less than five, nor more than
nine, each of whom shall be stockholder,
and a President and other officers of said COR
poration, to manage its affairs.
SEC. 5. That said Company shall keep an
Office at their principal nine in Union Coun-
ty, which for all judicial purposes, shall be
deemed its location, and also, one in tho
cities Of Columbia and New York, if t.cy
choose and all meetings of stockholders and
Directors may be beld at such place, in or out
of the State, rs may be directed by the by
laws of the Company.
SEC 6. That all the property, real and
personal, of said Company shall bc liable for
its debts, and the private propc:ty of tho
stockholders shall be liable for the debts of
the Company to the amount of stock sub
scsibcd. A&
SEC ! That this corporation shall have
legal existence froih the time q written ac-
ccptapce or adoption of this charter, signed
by minority of the persons named in tho
first Section, shall have been fled in the Of
fec Of the Secretary of State; and this Act
shall continue in force for thirty years from
and after 1t passage, aud the privileges aud
franchises granted by this charter shall not
be withdrawn during that time
Approved March z, 1871. ;
An Act to change the name Of the Gap
Greek and Middle Saluda Turnpike Com.
pnny, and to amend and renew the ;Charter
thereof IS. (. ~ s$S
SECTION l. BE it enacted by tho Senate
and House of Representatives. of the State
of South Corolinn, nov met and sitting ipS
General Assembly, and BY the authority ofs
the samc s;J
Thet tho charter Of tho Gap Greek and
Middle Saluda Turnpike Company be. aud
the same is hereby, amended in ,stiosl nun
nor that the said Company shall hercs - A1boa
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