The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-20

nous place in front of the building, OF lots.
And it shall be penal offence for the land
lord, agent of tenant, to remove the same"
Strike out, from section III, all after s147,"
and insert ssthe pay of Assessors shall in no
instance be more than three dollars per day
for each day actually and necessarily employed
in the performance Of the duties enjoined upon
them in this Act"
SEC. 2. All. Acts or parts of Acts inconsis-
tent with this Act are hereby repealed.
.qgSEc. 8. This Act shall take effect on and az
Ter the tax levy shall be- made for the hsca1
year of 1871
Approved the 9th day Of March, A. D., 1871.
AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE CoNs0LIDArIoN OF
THE eRERNvnLE AND COLUMBIA RArL ROAD
COMPANY, AND THE BLUE RIDGE RAIL ROAD
COMPANY. -
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State OF
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener-
al Assembly, and by the authorityo of the same,
That the Act entitled can Act to amend the
charter of the Greenyille and Columbia Rail
Road Company" passed by the General As
sembly of this State. on the Goth day of De-
Gender, 1853, be, and the same is hereby, re-
enacted, with the following amendments or al
terations:
SEC q That for the purpose of extending or
building or constructing rail road from Green
vile, 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 Company"
passed on the 18th day of December, In the
year 1915, be, and the same are hereby, re-en-
acted, with the following amendments or alter
ations:
SEC. 8. That the Greenville and Columbia
Rail Road Company is authorized, 30 far as
practicable, To purchase, connect or unite with
any connecting Rail Road or Rail Roads, and
especially to extend Rail Road communication
to Knoxville, Tennessee, and to Asheville In
North Carolina Provided That, if the Green
Vile and Columbia Rail Road Company shall
fail to construct and finish the said Rail Road,
including such ether Rail Road or Rall
Roads as it may unite with or acquire, to the
line between this State and North Carolina,
and Tennessee, within five years from the tnal
passage of this Act. the right to further con-
struct 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 limitation
shall not impair nor affect any rights, or any
Bail Road or Rail Roads acquired, united with,
or constructed, so far as acquired, united with
or constructed at the end of the time hereby
limited, nor4shall any thing contained in this
Act impair or limit the right or privilege to
consolidate or unite with any Rail Road. or
Rail Roads under any general Rail Road Law
or laws. That the said Greenville and Colum-
bia Rail Road Company shall have. .the power
to construct and build, upon the most practical
bier q branch Of their road, from some point
on the line of their road, at or East of Ander-
SON Court House, and West of Saluda River,
to Aiken or Hamburg, and there connect with
any Rail Road incorporated under the laws OF
this State and also shall have the power to
construct and build, upon the most practicable
route, q branch Of their road from Abbeyille
Court, House tothe Savannah River, in the di-
rection of Washington, Georgia also, that the
said Company shall have the power to contract
and build, upon the most practicable route,
,Rai1 Road from Spartanburg Court House to
the North Carolina line, in the direction Of
Asheyille, or Rutherford, North Carolina.
SEC. 4. That in view of the consolidation of
the Greenyille and Columbia Rail Road Com
pany 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 in en-
dorsing the same, and thereby pledging 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 aforesaid to Henry
Clews, Henry Gourdin and George S. Cameron,
to secure the payment of the bonds aforesaid,
is also ratified and confirmed, and said mort
gage is declared to be lien prior to that of
sthe;State,, on all property described in said
mortgage, and on the entire line of the road
aforesaid, 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 diyest
the EEate or its lien on the estate and property
Of the said several Rail Road Companies, or Of
either of them, for its endorsement of the
bonds aforesaid, but said lien is postponed to
and declared to be subject and subordinate to
that of the mortgage, hereinbefore mentioned,
to Henry Clews, Henry Gourdin and George
S. Cameron, Trustees.
Sec. B.. That all other statutory or other liens
or lien, encumbrance, equities or equity except
the mortgage encumbrances now upon the
property, assets, effects, rights and franchises
of said Greenville and Columbia Rail Road
Company, or any part thereof and also except
the mortgage herein authorized, shall be, and
are, or is hereby, made subsequent to the mort
gage encumbrances now in existence thereon,
and subsequent to the one herein authorized,
80 that the holders of the bonds secured by
said mortgages, or either of them, shall have
lien and security as between each other, accord
ing to the time said mortgages have been or
shall be recorded, aud prior lien to all other
liens or encumbrances whatsoever, any law or
laws to the contrary Notwithstanding
Sec. 6. The following clause in Section of
the Act of September Is, 1863, to authorize ad-
,ditional aid to the Blue Ridge Rail Road Com
pany, in South Carolina, viz: "And further Pro-
vided, That the said bonds, or any part thereof,
shall not be used, unless upon the express con-
dition that upon application to the Congress of
the United States, or to private capitalists, the
amonnt of three millions of dollars in curren-
oy, or so much of that sum as may be necessa-
~, shall be furnished in exchange or upon the
security of said bonds, is hereby repealed.