The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-13

WITH tne prUfhlon5 VI ooSSaon
act.
SEC. II, That 1t shall not be lawful for the
proprietor ofsny pharmaceutical shop to allow
any person not qualified, In accordance with
the provisions # this act, to dispose OF
| poisons or compound the prescriptions OF
physicians, and any person who, upon indict-
ment for . violation Of this section, shall be
convicted of the same, shall pay 9 fine not eI-
| ceeding five hundred dollars, or suffer i'm
prisonment for the period Of not more than six
months.
Approved March IS, 1872.
| An AcT to Authorize the Formation OF, and to
Incorporate, the Laurens and Aaheville Rail-
road.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
Houss of Representatives Of the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General Az
sembly, and by the authority Of the same:
That J. r. Fowler, William Mills, Lanson
Owens, Samuel Fleming, Vim. q. Langston,
Y. J. P. Ovens, J.. Crews, ". z. Earle, Thomas
NJ. Cox, Alexander Isaaos, Wilson Cook, Alex
ander McBee, II. P. Hammett, L. Williams.
Hewlett Sullivan, James P. Moore and their as
s~ociates and SUCCESSORS, be-, and they are here
by, declared q body polite and corporate,
under the name and style OF the Laurens and
Ashsville Railroad Company, for the purpose OF
constructing q railroad from the Town OF Lau-
rens to the Town Of Greenville, and thence to-
wards Asheville. North Carolina, by the most
direct and possible route.
SEQ. q. That, for the purpose OF raising the
capital stock OF said company. it shall be law-
full to open books, at the Town OF Laurens,
under the direction of. r. Fowler, VIM. Mills.
Lauson Owens, Samuel Fleming, VIM. b.
Laneston, Y. J. p. Owens and ]. Crews; at the
Town of Greenvilie, under W.. E. Earle, Thomas
NJ. Cox, Alexander Isaaos, Wilson Cook, Alex
ander McBee,' n. p. Rsmmett, L. Williams.
Hewlett Sullivan and James p. Moore; and at
such other places, in the Counties OF Laurens
and Greenyille, and under the direction OF
such other persona, as the commissions in
| the respective counties herein above named
may designate, for the purpose OF securing
subscriptions to an amount not exceeding W
million FIVE hundred thousand dollars, in shares
OF one hundred dollars each, to constitute o
Joint capital stock, for the purpose oEcon-
structing and carrying into operation the said
railroad; and on each share OF individual stock
the subscriber shall pay to the commissioners,
who shall be- authorized TO take the same, the
sum Of Ave dollars, lawful money OF the United
States.
SEC. 8. That, when when the sum OF one
hundred thousand dollars shall have been SUBJ
scribed in the manner before specified, the
subscribers shall be, and they are hereby, de-
clared q body corporate, to be known by the
name and style Of the Laurens and AsheVille
Railroad Company, and may meet and organ
ize said company, at such time and place, as
may be designated by the commissioners, for
the Town of Laurens hereinbefore named.
SEC. 4. That, for the purpose Of organizing
said company, all such powers as are conferred
by the charter Of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad Company on the commissioners at
Greenville, shall be, and are hereby. conferred
on the commissioners herein sppointed, at the
Town OF Laurens; aud all the powers, rights
and privileges granted by the said charter,
and it's amendments, to the GTesnville and Co
lumbia Railroad Company, shall be-, and they
are hereby, granted to the Laurens and Ashe-
vile Railroad Company, and subject to like re-
s~triction ss are therein contained, except as to
the capital stock, the sum necessary to author
ize organization, and the amount OF shares, e1-
cept 80 Tar as may be necessary to conform to
the special provisions OF this act: Provided,
however, That nothing herein contained shall
be go construed So to bind the State to sub
scribe stock in said company, or make any ep-
preparation to enable the said company to
build said road, or in any manner to loan the
credit OF the State thereto.
SEC. s. Be it further enacted, That 1t shall
be lawful for any county, township, town or
city in this State, interested in the construc-
ton Of the said railroad, to subscribe to the
capital stock of said company such sum as the
majority Of the voters Of such county, town.
shin, town or city may authorize their consti-
tuted authorities to subscribe; aud the chair
man of the board Of county commissioners OF
any county,, Vi lilo ulayok
town or city in this Slate, when instructed by
resolution of q convention OF taxpayers ofsuch
county, township, town or city-said conven-
ii IN to be called, after reasonable notice, by
the chairman Of the board OF county commits
sioners, or the mayor or intendant OF the own
or city, upon the, application Of not less thai
ten taxpayers, m writing lis hereby required
to submit the question OF said subscription,
and the amount to be subscribed to the said
road, to q vote Of the legal voters thereof, the
said mayor, chairman or intendant to desig-
nate the precincts for voting, and to appoint
suitable managers to conduct the same, and
declare the result.
SEQ. 6. That il any county, township, town
or city shall make q subscription to said road
as provided in the foregoing section, said SUBJ
scription shall be raised by taxation, in annu-
al ipstalments, Of not loss than ten nor more
than twenty years. as the people may author
izs in the vote aforesaid.
SEC. z. That whenever any subscription shall
be made by any county, township, town or
CITY to said road as aforesaid, the county audi.
tor or other officer dIschargins the duties OF
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