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

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them for file in their office.
AN ACT to Promote the Consolidation
of tie GreenvilA and Columbia RoaI
!. Dad Company, and the Blue Radge
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 is 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 n;ne, 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 1915, be, and the same
are hereby, re-enacted, with the follow
il.g amendments or alterations:
SEC. 3. That the Greenville and Co.
lumbla. Rail Road Company is authorlz-
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; Pyomded, That,
if the Greenville and Columbia Rail
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 Rail
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; but this limi-
tation shall not impair nor affect any
rights of any Rail Road or Rail Roads
acquired, united with, or constructed,
so 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
arr Rail Road or Rail Roads under any
general Rail Road law OF laws. That
the said Greenville and Columbia Rail
Road Company ehall 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 practeable
route, a branch Of their road from Abb
beville Court House TO tne 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 Court
House to the North Carolina line,
in the direction Of Asheville, or Ruth
erford, North Carolina,
SEC. 4 That in viewsof the consoli-
dation Of the GreenvilIe 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-General Of the State insE
endorsing the same, and thereby pledg- |
ing the faith and funds of the State to
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 afore-
said to Henry Clews. Henry Gourdln
and George S. Cameron, to secure the