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CTATE OF TENNESSEE, Office Clerk and Mas
y ter Chsncery Court, at Nashville, April Is,
1871, the State Of Tennessee, complainant, VS..
The Edgeheld and Kentucky Railroad Company,
defendants.
1t appearing from the allegations of the origi-
nal and amended and supplemental bills hled IN
this cause and which are duly sworn to, that the
defendants, Bristol, Skdmcre b Co, and A. L
Maxwell, are non residents Of the ate Of Ten
Dessee, and that the names and residences Of .
number Of tbs stockholders Of the defendants,
The Edgeheld and Kentucky Railroad Company,
the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad Conpa-
ny, the Memphis, Clsrksville and Louisville Rail
road Company, the McMinnville and Manchester
Railroad Company, the Winchester and Alabama
Railroad Comaany, tboSouthweStern or Southern
Rsilroed Company, the Knoxville and Kentucky
Railroad Company, She Cincinnati, Cumberland
Gap and hsrleston Railroad Company, the Knox
vile and Charleston Railroad Company, the Bog
ersvtle and jefferson Railroad Company, the
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina
Railroad Company, are all unknown, although
oiigent inquiry has bsen made to ascertain the
same, as are also the names aud residences Of
number Of the holders Of the bonds issued by the
complainant, the State Of tennessee, to the be
fore named railroad companies, and also OF the
holders Of the bonds issued by said rail-
road companies, or any Of them, and, also, Of
number Of the creditors Of said railroad compa-
mics; an also, that the names and residences Of
number Of persons interested In the said before
named roads, or railroad companies, are also IN
kUCWn, Ol1geut nhb Decu HlAue
to ascertain the same; 1t is therefore, in pursu-
Ance Of the provisions Of an set Of the Leg1sla-
ture Of the State Of Tennessee, passed on The
2lst day Of December, 1870, entitled "An ACT to
amend the act Of 1870, chapter 79 for the sale of
the interest Of the state in delinquent railroad
companies passed July l, 1870" and also In fur
Their pursuance OF q decree rendered By the
Ohancery Court at Nashville, in the above entitled
cause, rendered on the 18th day of April, 1871,
and Of the allegations and prsyer Of the original
and amended and supplemental bills in this cause,
ordered that said above named defendants, Bril-
toll, skidmore b Co., and A L Maxwell, and all
Of the said unknown 3 Ockholders, holders Of
bonds issued By the State to sad companies, or Of
the bonds issued by said companies, creditors Of
said companies, and other persons interested In
said several roads railroad companies before
named, enter their appearance herein. on or be-
fore the seventh Monday OF the present term Of
this Court, being the 18TH day Of May next, 1871,
lBsid day being rule day for the return day Of
oris tnal process, and for publication In heu there
of, by order Of the Chancellor of said. Court, in
pursuance Of the law in such cssee, made and
provided, and that all of said defendants or 90
many Of them Of the different classes as the Court
may deem sufficient TO represent all Of each
class, be required TO appear, and put IN such de-
fence to said btlls as they may respectively deem
proper, under the provisions CT said act Of 2lst
December, 1870, or the said original and amend
ed and supplemental bills will be taken for con-
fessed as to them, and set for hearing exparte,
and that copy Of this order be published for
four consecutive weeks IN the Nashville Union
and American and Republican Banner.
A true Copy-Attest
Clerk and Master.
EH. Ewing, ". f. Cooper sGd W. B. Reese,
9oiicitora forf inTr1r1latnaut aDI6 d4V