The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-05-20
OFFICIAL.
Acts aIrd Joint Resolutions
Passed by the Legisl,ature---
Sessions 1870 and 1871.

81 10
AH Act to Promote the Consolidation oj
ths Greenuiile and Colun,biu Railroad
Conpany aud The Blee Ridge Rail
road 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
hority of the same, That the Act en-
titled seAn Act to amend the charter OF
the Greenvillc and Columbia Railroad
Company passed by the General Assem-
thiy Of this State on the 10th day of
December, 1853, be, and the same is
hereby, re enacted, with tho following
amendments or alterations:
SEC. g. That for the purpose of ex-
tending, or building, or constructing a
railroad from Grecnville, all of the pro-
visions of sections 9, 10, II and II, of
Act entitled can Act to authorize the
formation of rhe Greenville aud Colum-
bia Railroad Company" passed on the
18th day Of December, in the year 1916,
be, and the same are hereby, re-enacted,
with the following amendments or altera-
tions:
SEC. 3. That the Grcenville and Co.
lumbia Railroad Company is authorized
so far as practicable, to purchase, con-
meet or unite with any connecting Rail
road or Railroads, and especially to ex-
tend Railroad communication to Knox
vile, Tennessee, aud to Ashville, in
North Carolina: Provided, That if the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com
pany shall fail to construct and finesh the
said Railroad, including such other
Railroad or Railroads as it may unite
with or acquire, to the line between the
passage passage ef The Act, Act The right to further
construct said Railroad to Knoxvill, and
to Asheville, shall cease, and the time
limited therefor is hereby extended five
fears from the final passage of this Act;
but this Limitation shall not impair nor
affect any rights, or any Railroads ac-
quired, united with, or constructed, SO
far as acquired, united with or construc.
ted, at the Of the time hereby limited,
nor shall anything contained in this Act
impair or limit the right or privilege to
consolidate or unite with any Railroad
or Railroads under any General Railroad
under any General Railroad law or laws.
That tho said Grecnvillc and Company
Railroad Company shall have power to
construct aud build. upon the most prac-
tieable route, branch of their road,
from some point on the line of their road,
Mt or east Of Andersen Court House,
and west of the Saluda River, to AK II
or Hamburg, and there connect with any
Railroad incorporated under the laws OF
this State; and, also, shall have the pow
er to construct andibuild, upon the most
practicable, route, branch of their road
from rAbbeyille Court House to the Sa-
vannah River, in the direction of Wash
ington, Georgia; also, thut the said Com
pany shall have the power to construct
and build, upon the most practicable
route, q Railroad from Spartanburg court
house to the North Carolina liuc, in the
direction of Asheyillc, or Ruthcrfordtou.
North Carolina.
SEC. 4. That, in view Of the cousoli-
dation of the Greenyille and Columbia
Railroad Company and the Blue Ridge
Railroad, the action of the said Blue
Ridge Railroad Company in making the
bonds authorized under the act Of Sep
tember Is, 1868, and of the comptrol.
r-gcneral of the State in endorsing the
same, aud thereby pledging the faith aud
funds Of ltl.e State TO tie payment OF
said bonds, is hereby ratified and con-
firmed and that the making and execu,
tion by said Blue Ridge Railroad Com.
pany and said other companies of tho
mortgage aforesaid to Henry Crews
Henry Gourdin and George s. Cameron
to secure the payment Of the bonds
aforesaid, is also ratified and confirmed
and said mortgage is declared to be q
lien prior to that of the State on all pro
perty described in said mortgage and OIL
the entire line of the road aforesaid, ant
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panies, or which they, or either of them
may hereafter acquire; but nothing ir
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