The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-03-29
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q TIoN OF THE GREENVILLB> AND COL
S UMBIA ,RAIL ROAD COMPANY AND
Ei THE BLUE RIDGE RAIL ROAD COM
PAEY.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives oi
the state of South Carolina, DOW met
and sitting in General Assembly, and
by authority of the same, That the Act
entitled "An Act to amend the charter
of. the Greenville aud Columbia Rail
Road Company" passed By the General
Assembly of this State on the 10th day
Of December, 1885, be, and the same
is hereby, re enacted, with the follow
ing amendments or alterations:
SEC. 2. That for the purpose Of ex-
tending or building or constructing q
rail road from Greenville, all of the
provisions of sections nine, ten, eleven
aud twelve Of an Act entitled can Act
to authorize the formation of the
Greenvile and Columbia Rail Road
Company" passed on the 18th day Of
December, in the year lS45, be, and the
same are hereby, re enated, with the
following amendments or alterations:
SEC. 5. That TIE Greenville and
Columbia Hail Road Company is autho-
rized, so far as practicable, to purchase,
connect or uuite with any connecting
Rail Road or Rail Roads, and especial
ly to extend Rail Road communication
to Knoxville, Tennessee, and to Ashc-
vile in North Carolina; Provided, That,
If the Greenville and Columbia Rail
Road Company shall fail to construct
and flush the said Rail Road, including
such other Rail Road or Rail Roads as
it may unite with or acquire, to the
line between this State and North
Carolina, and Tennessee, within 6ye
years from the Enal passage of this Act,
the right to further contruct said Rail
Road to Knoxville and to Ashevillc
shall cease, and the time liwited there
for is hereby extended five years from
the final passage Of this Act; but this
limitation shall not impair nor affect
any rights, or any Rail Road or Rail
Roads acquired, united with, or con-
struc;ed, SO far as acquired, united with
or constructed at the end Of the time
hereby limited, nor shall any thing
contained in this Act impair or limit
the right or privilege to consolidate or
unite witl any Rail Road or Rail Roads
under any general Rail Road law or
laws. That the said Greenville and
Columbia Rail Road Company shall
have the power to construct and build,
upon the most practicable route, a
: branch Of their road, from some point
on the line Of their road, at or East of
Anderson Court House, and West Of
the Saluda River, to Aiken or Ham>
burg, aud there connect with any Rail
Road Incorporated under the laws OF
this State; aud also shall have the power
to construct and build, upon the most
practicable route, branch of their road
from Abbeville Court House to the
Savannah River, in the direction Of
Washington, Georgia also, that the
said Company shall have the power to
contract and build, upon the most
practicable roste, a Rail Road from
Spartanburg Court House to the North
Caroliua line, in the direction of Ashe-
vile, or Rutherford, North Carolina.
SEC. +. That in view Of the con-
solidatiop of tie Greenville and
Columbia Rail Road Company and the
Blue Rifge Rail Road Company
the action Of the said Blue Ridge
Rail Road Company in making the
bonds aforesaid. and ofthe Comptroller
General Of the State in endorsing the
same, and thereby pledging the faith
and funds Of the State to the payment
of said bonds. is her, BY ratified and
confirmed; and that the making and
exception By said Blue Ridge Rail Road
Company aud said other Companies OF
the mortgage aforesaid to Henry Crews,
Henry Gourdin and George S. Cameron,
to secure the payment Of the bonds
aforesaid, is also ratified aud confirmed,
and said mortgage is declared to be a
lien prior to that Of the State, on all
Iprope,iy described in said mort gage,
and on the entire line of the road aiore
said, and on all the properties Of said
several Companies. or which they, or
either Of them, may hereafter acquire:
but nothing in this Act contained shall
be construed to divcst The State Of its
lien on the estate aud property of the
said several Rail Companies, or Of either
Of them, for its endorsement of the
bonds aforesaid, but said lien is post
poncd 10 and declared to be subjec; aud
suto' d;nate TO that Of the mortgage,
hereinbcforc mentioned. to Henry Clews,
Henry Gourdin and George S. Cameron,
Trustees.
SEC. 5. That ali other statutory or
other liens or lien, encumbrances or
circumference, equities or equity, except
the mortgage encumbrances now upon
the property. assets, effects, rights and
frarchi>-> Of said Grecnville and Colum
bia Rail Road Company, or any part
thereof, and also except the mortgage
herein aH;horizsd. shall be, and are, or
is hereby, made subsequent to the mort
gage ehcpmbrances now in existence
thereon, and subsequent 10 TIE one
herein authorized. 50 that ihe holders Of
the bond~ secured by said mortgages, or
either Of them, shall lave lien aud
security as between each other, accord