The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-18
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ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
LEGIsLATURE--sEssIoN 1870 AND 1871

PASSED BY THE
LEGISLATURE--SESSION 1870 AND 1871.
[oFFICIAL.]
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CONTINENTAL
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of REPRESENTATIVES of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General As
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That
William NJ Hall, Ethan a. Hall and Charles
Thurman, and all those who shall become
stockholders in the company hereby incorpora-
ted, shall be body polite and corporate, by
the name of the Continental Telegraph Compas
nv, and by that name shall have perpetual sue
cession, and may have and use common seal,
and may sue or be sued, in any court of comp
tent jurisdiction.
SEC. 9. Such corporation is authorized to
construct lines of telegraph along, upon, across,
over, under and beside of the .Greenville and
Celumbia Railroad, and any of the public roads
and highways, and under and across any OF the
waters within the limits of this State, or so
ranch or so many of either Of the foregoing as
may bo dAemed exped;ant, BY establishing sui
liable offices and the erection of the necessary
cords or wires and fixtures, including posts, piers
or abutments for sustaining the cords or wires
of such lines: Provided, The same shall not be
80 constructed as to incommode the public use
of said roads or highways or injuriously inter-
.mpt the navigation of said waters, and also to
construct a line or lines of telegraph, and to es-
tablish offices and erect such necessary cords or
wires and fixtures, including the posts, piers or
ahutments, as and for the purposes aforesaid,
and keep, hold and maintain the necessary Of
fees upon, through or over, any other land, sub
iect TO the right of the owner or owners thereof
to full compensation for the same, to be agreed
upon by said owner or owners and the said cor
poration, or to be fixed or determined as here
matter provided and the said corporation may,
in like manner, and with like power, construct
out this State, as the board of directors may
elect.
Sec. 8. Such corporation shall have full
power to purchase, lease, receive, hold and con-
yey real estate, or any interest therein, and
may inladdition thereto, use such real estate.
or any interest therein, as may be necessary
for the convenient transaction of the busl-
ness, and for efectually carrying on the opera
tions of said corporation; and may appoint
such directors, officers and agents, and make
such prudential rules, regulations and bylaws
as may be necessary in the transaction OF Its
business, not inconsistent with the constitution
of this State or of the United States.
Sec 4 IF any owner or owners of any land
y
paration, shall consider himself aggrieved, or
likely so to be, or damaged theteby, or shall
refuse to accept the compensation offered by
said corporation therefor, it shall be the duty
of the Circuit Court, to be held in the county
within which said lands are, on the application
of such owner or owners, or of such corpora
ton, by petition, stating the facts in relation
thereto, and on such notice to the opposite par
ty as such court shall perscribe, to appoint
three disinterested persons as commissioners,
who shall severally take and subscribe an oath,
before any person authorized to administer
oaths, faithfully and impartially to perform
the duties required of them by this act; and it
shall be the duty of said commissioners, or
maiority of them, to make a just and equitable
assessment or appraisement Of all the losses or
damage sustained, or which Is likely to be sus-
tanned, by reason of any land, or interest there
in, taken or used or likely to be taken or used,
for said Offices, liens, posts piers or abutments,
and the erection and operation of said tele-
graph lines : and such assessments or appraisal
shall, in any proper case or cases, determine
the annual rent or compensation to be paid by
such company for such use, or, in lieu thereof,
q sum in gross as the compensation for allowing
the fixtures belonging to such association per-
rnanently to continue and the same to be re-
paired, improved and renewed, or removed,
from time TO time, as such corporation shall re-
quire duplicates of which said assessment or
appraisement shall be reduced to writing and
signed by said commissioners or majority of
them. one copy of which shall be delivered to
the party alleged to be injured, or likely so
to be, and the other to the president of said
corporation, on demand; in case any damage
shall be adjudged to the person alleged to be
Injured or damaged or likely so TO be, the cor
poraii0n shall pay the amount thereof, with
costs of appraisal, which said costs shall be liq
Undated and ascertained in said award and said
commissioners shall each receive, for their ser
vices, two dollars for each day they are actual.
" employed in making said appraisement; and
upon payment of such award, the right, title,
interest on property described in said assess
ment, shall become and be vested in and be the
property of such corporation.
SEo. 5. The capital stock of such corpora
tionshan be fifty thousand dollars, to be divided
to tsro thousand ahares Of twenty-five dollars
each, which may be increased, from time to
time, to such an amount as and whenever
eral meeting shall elect; books of subscription
may be opened to obtain the amount of stock
drst above named, at such time and place with
in this State as majority of the persons first
above named shall determine, and for the in
creased stock in such manner as the said cor
poration may deem expedent; and the said
corporation shall go into operation at such time
as majority of the stockholders may fix.
Sec. 6. Such corporation may lease, sell or
convey its property, rights, privileges and fran
ehise, or any interest therein, or any part
thereof, to, or may unite with, any telegraph
company organized under or created by the
laws of this or any other State; may acquire
by lease, purchase or conveyance ,ssthe property
nights, privileges and franchises, or any interest
therein, or any part thereof, of any telegraph
eompanS organized under or created by the
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