The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-04-15
~OFFICIAI.
Acts aas soint RESOLUTIONS
Passed by sIte L.egislatnre---
Session 1870 and 1871.

Telegraph Company.
SEc-IaN. l BE it enacted by the
Senate aud House of Representatives of
the State Of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same, That vii
liam NJ. Hall, Ethan A. Hail and
Charles Thurman, and all those who
shall become Stockholders in the Com
pany hereby Incorporated, shall be n
body polite md corporate, by the name
of the Continental Telegraph Company,
and by that name shall have perpetual
Succession, and may have ard use a COM
nou seal, aud may sue or be sued, in any
Court Of competent jurisdiction.
SEC. 9. such corporation is author
lied to construct lines of telegraph along,
upon, across. over, under aud beside of
the Grecnvillc and Columbia Railroad,
and any of the public roads aud high
ways, aud under and across any of the
WatCiS Wuhiu 'uc liulltS Vi tulS Stltc, OF
SO much or so many Of either OF the
foregoing as may be deemed cxpelicnt,
by establishing suitable Offices aud the
erection OF the necessary cords or wires
and fixtures, including posts, piers OF
abutments for sustaining the cords or
wires OF such line: Pyori1cd, Tie same
shall not be SO constructed us to iueoln
mode the public use OF said roads or
highways, or injuriously interrupt the
navigation Of said waters and also to
construct u line or lines of telegraph,
aud to establish offices, aud erect such
necessary cords or wires and fixtures, in
Guiding til, pusts, piers or n%butmcnts, as
aud for the purpose aforesaid, and keep.
hold and maintain the necessary Offices
upon, through or over any other land,
lsubjcct to the right OF the owner or
owners thereof to full Compensation for
the same, to be agreed epon by said
owner or owners aud the said corpora
ton, or to be fixed or determined us
hereinafter provided aud the said cor
poration may, iu like manner, and with
like power, construct lines Of telegraph
to such place or places without this State
as the Boord of Directors may elect.
SEC. Such corporation shall have full
power to purchase, lease, receive, hold
aud convey real estate, or any interest
therein, and may, in addition thereto,
use such real estate, or any interest
therein, as may be necessary for the con-
y%cnient transaction of the business, and
for effectually carrying on the operations
of said corporation ; and may appoint
such Directors, officers and agents, and
nuke such prudential rules, regulations
and bylaws as may be necessary in the
transaction Of its business, not inconsis-
tent with the Constitution of this State
or of the United States.
SEC. 4. If any owner or owners of
any land taken or used, or likely to be
taken or used, by said corporation, shall
consider himself aggrieved, or likely so
to re, or damaged thereby, or shall refuse
to accept the compensation offered by
said corporation therefor, it shall be the
duty Of ;hc Circuit Court, to be held in
the county within which said lands are,
on the application of such owner or
owners, or Of snch corporation, by petit
ton, stating the facts in relation thereto,
aud on such notice to the opposite party
as such Court shall prescribe, to appoint
three disimtarested persons sc comma
s%ioners, who shall severully take aud
subscribe an oath, faithfully and impair
tally to perform the duties required Of
this ct and it shall be the duty OF
said commissioners, or a majority OF
thcm, TO make a just and equitable us,
sessnicut or appriselneut Of all the losses
or damage sustained, by reason Of any
land; or interest therein, taken or used,
or likely to be taken or used, for said
officers, lines, posts, piers or abutmeuts,
and the erection aud operation of said
telegraph, lines; aud such assessment or
appraised shall, in any proper case OF
or cases, determine the annual rent or
compensation to be paid by such compa-
ny for such use, or, in lieu there i, n
cum in gross as the compensation for al
lowing the fixtures belonging to such
association perinan: ntly to continue, aud
and the same to he repaired, Improved