Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-04-06

AN ACT to Promote the Consolidation
of tie Greenv1lk and Columbia Rail
!. oad Company, and the Blue R'dge
Rail load Company.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House Of Representatives OF
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority Of the same, That the
Act entitled "An Act to amend the
charter Of the Greenville and Columbia
Rail Road Company," passed by the
General Assembly Of this State on the
10Th day of December, 1858" be, and
the same shereby, re-enacted, with the
following amendments or alterations:
SEC. 2. That for the purpose of ex-
tending or building or constructing a
rail road from Greenville, all of the
provisions of Sections nine, ten, eleven
and twelve of an Act entitled " An Act
to authorize the formation of the Green
Vile and Columbia Rail Road Compa-
nv" passed on the 18th day of Decem-
Der, in the year lS45, be, and the same
are hereby, re-enacted, with the follow
ing amendments or alterations:
SEC. 3. That the Greenville and Co.
lumbia Rail Road Company is authoriz-
ed, so far as practicable, to purchase,
connect or unite with any connecting
Rail Road or Rail Roads, and especial
" to extend Rail Road communication
to Knoxville, Tennessee, and to Ashe-
Vile in North Carolina; Pyomdea, That,
if the Greenville and Columbie Bail
Road Company shall fail to construct
and finish the said Rail Road, ,includ-
ing such other Rail Road or Rail Roads
as it may unite with or acquire, to the
line between this State and North Car
olina, and Tennessee, within FIVE years
from the final passage Of this Act, the
right to further construct SAID Rall
Road to Knoxville and to. Asheyille shall
cease, and the time limited therefor is
hereby extended FIVE years from the
final passage of this Act; bpt this limi-
tation shall not impair nor affect any
rights of any Rail Road or Rail Roads |
acquired, united with, or constructed,
50 far as acquired. united with or con-
structed at the end of the time hereby
limited, nor shall anything contained
in this Act impair or limit the right or
privilege to consolidate or unite with
anv Rail Road or Rail, Roads under anv
general Rail Road law or laws. Thai
the said Greenville and Columbia Rail
Road Company shall have the power to
Construct and build, upon the most
practicable route, 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 Hamburg, and there
connect with any Rail Road incorpora-
ted under the laws of this State; and
also shall have the power to construct
and build, upon the most prsoticable
route, a branch OF their road from-Ab1
beville 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 route,
a Rail Road from Spartanburg Conrt,
House to the North Carolina lime
in the direction of Asheville, or Ruth
erford, North Carolina.
SEC. 4. That in vicwsof the consoli-
dation of the Greenville and Columbia
Rail Road Company and the Blue Ridge
Rail Road Company the action OF the
said Blue Ridge Rail- Road, Company,
in making the bonds aforesaid, and of
the Comptroller-Geperal Of the State lngE
endorsing the same, and thereby pledg-
inc the faith and funds of the State to
the the payment of said bonds, is hereby
ratified and confirmed; and that the
making and execution by said Blue
Ridge Rail Road Company and SAID
other Companies of the mortgage atore-
said to Henry Clews, Henry Gourdln
and George S. Cameron, to secure the
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