The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-12

the corporators hereinbefore named,
they. having first given due notice of the
same in any newspaper published in
Beaufort or Charleston Countless; and
said subscription books shall be kept
open for twenty days from such time,
and ut such places, as said corporators
may determine. When fifty thousand
dollars shall have been subscribed, the
said corporators, or any four Of them,
shall give notice, by publication for ut
least ten days. of the time and place Of
meeting for organization.
SEC. 3. Whenever the said sum Of
fifty thousand dollars shall have been
subscribed, the subscribers, their execu-
tors, administrators and assigns, shall
be, and they are hereby declared to be,
incorporated into company, with all
the rights, powers and privileges con-
ferred upon the sport Royal Railroad
Company" by an Act entitled can Act
to charter the Port Royal Railroad Com
pany," ratified December the 21st, A. D.
1857: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall bs so construed as to ex-
empt said company from tho provisions
OF Section l, OF Chapter 63, OF the Gene
raj Statutes
Sec. 4. Tint said s.Bull River and
Port Royal Railroad Company" shall
have power to mortgage its property and
franchises. and issue bonds, ut such
rates of interest, and upon such terms
and conditions, and for such uses and
purposes Of snid corporation, as the
Board of Directors thereof may deem
expelieEt.
SEC. 5. That no other railroad shall
be constructed, with terminus, or point
of beginning within ten miles of the
line of the said ''Bull River and Port
Royal Railroad" for o period of ten
years.
Sec 6. That tho said company shall
have the right to build bridges across
navigable rivers: Procitled, They shall
put in good and sufficient draws, and
shall construct necessary stations and
turn-outs, and shall have ono or more
tracks to the road, with such gauge as
will correspond with TINT of the "Port
Royal Railrond"
SEC. 7. Nothing herein contained
shall be SO construed ms to exempt
the said company from the payment Of
taxes.
SEQ s. Said railroad shall be com
menced within one year, and completed
within seven years, after the passage Of
this Act.
Approved March 12, 1872.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PUBLIC FERRY IN
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
BE ii enacted by Ue Senate and House of
Representatives Of The State Of South Caro-
lima, no,o met and sitting in General As
senbiy, and by the authority of tie same,
That the ferry commonly known as
''Rocky Mount Ferry" across the
Catawba River, in Fairfield County,
shall be, and the same is hereby, estab-
lished public ferry, and vested in
James Johnson, his heirs, executors and
assigns, until repealed, with the privi-
lege of collecting the following rates of
toll, to wit: For each wagon drawn by
four horses. mules or oxen, seventy five
cents; for each wagon drawn by three
horses, mules or oxen, sixty-fve cents;
for each wagon drawn by two horses,
mules or oxen, fifty cents; for each
wagon, carriage or buggy, drawn by one
horse, mule or OK, twenty-five cents; for
each man on horseback, ten cents; for
each foot passenger, five cents: Pro-
uieled, That children going to and re-
turning from school, and voters going to
and returning from the polls on election
day, shall be passed free.
Approved March -, 1872.