The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-10
The Anderson, Aiken, Port Royal and
Charleston Railroad.

We give below the charter of the Anderson,
Aiken, Port Royal and Charleston Railroad,
as passed at the recent session of the Legsla-
ture:
SECTION l.. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority Of the same,
That ] ohm r. Cochran, William Perry B.
d. Dean, jeremiah Holinshead, B. II. Ner-
land, Stephen Millet, H. 7. Peake, Alexander
Isaacs, VIM. S. HASTE, Charles Minort, r. II.
Humbert, R. ID. Gather, w. A. Grant, Louis
F. Spencer, DR.. John Wilson, William McGu-
kin, John w. Daniels, w. w. Humphries, P.
X. McCully, M. McCuly, P. P. Hedges, ]. G.
Griffin, w. R. Parker w. R. Leayel, John A.
Arnold, L. F. Arnold, A. T. Clinton, Y. ]. P.
Owens, B. A. Thompson, w. A. Hayne, A. o.
Jones, w. ]. Etter, C. Smith, James A. Spen-
Ger, II. j. Maxwell, w. E. Johnson, w. B.
Nash, James Brennan, 9. F. North, Edward
Petty, Isaac Prioleau, Julius Tingman, B. F.
Jackson, E. w. Everson, John A. Barker, j.
Vanderpool, Charles H. Sperry, John Wilson,
J. J. Grant, James Just, E. G. Roberts, j.
Woodruff, II. c. Corwin, John Boston, j. l..
Boston, Cato Young, John Breazeale, Robert
Tarletou, G. A. Reed, G. D. Hayne, James NJ.
Smith, Robert Smalls, William R. Jervay, w.
]. Brodie, S. E. Gaillard, L. Cain, w. Fl. Jones,
Jr., David Harris, Sr., j. E. Green, D. R. Dun
can, James L. Jamison, Everidge Cain, B. F.
Whttemore, T. G.. Dunn, H. A. Wideman,
George Maxwell, N. T. Spencer, Isaac H.
White, Thomas A. Martin, Bailey Milford, 81.
w. Purvis, Samuel J. Lee, Gloster Holland,
w. B. Jones, John Wilson, Frederick Nix, R.
B. Artson, H. B; johnson, Hastings Can't.
Samuel Greene, Thomas Hamilton, George F.
Mcintyre, A. P. Ford, VIM. Taft, J. S. Mobley
w. F. Myers, ]. B. Bascomb, w. Mulligan, S.
A. Swails, r. H. Cain, B. A. Bosemon, Jr., O..
R. Levy, r. Bryan, S. J. Keith, w. NJ. Thomas,
J.. R. Tolbert, II. II. Ellison, Paris Simkins,
David Graham, A. Simkins, Linus Simons,
Joseph Crews, T. J. Webb, w. J. McKinlay,
Henry Kennedy, G. T. Williams, Joseph Mar
tin, A. p. Holiness Samuel Johnson, David
Brown, J. A. Bowley, E. E. Reise, R. W. Tur-
ner, J. J. Patterson, Sherman Smalls, B. Owens,
E. E. KEYS, J. NJ. Mckay, J. Stephen, Burrell
Edwards, Henry Reed, William Walker, Rich
mond Payton, Lawrence Walker, R. A. Sisson,
and successors, be, and they are hereby, de-
clared body polite and corporate, under the
name and style of the Anderson, Aiken, Port
Royal and Charleston Railroad Company, and
under that name and style shall be, and are
hereby made capable to have, purchase, hold
aud enjoy and retain to their successors, lands,
rents, tenements, goods, chattels, and effects OF
whatsoever kind or quality soever, and the
same to sell, alien or dispose of to sue or be
sued, plead or be impleaded, answer and be
answered, defend and be defended in Courts of
Record, or any other place whatsoever, to have
and to exercise all the rights and privileges OF
all railroad corporations of similar kind now
existing, or hereafter to be created in this
State, except the right to interfere with the
chartered rights and privileges of such corpo-
rations relative to the building and construc-
ton of roads. Said railroad company, or any
of the same, shall have the right to cross any
road now or hereafter constructed: Provided,
That at such crossings there shall be suitable
gates, and that the engines and cars of such
road shall stop at such crossing at point not
less than one hundred feet.
SEC 3 That in addition to the rights, privi-
leges and franchises conferred upon this COM
pany under the provisions of this Act, they
shall also have authority and power, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered to build
and construct railroad from the town of An
derson to the town of Aiken, by the way of
the towns of Abbeville and Edgefeld, with the
power to build and construct a branch to con-
| meet with the Port Royal Railroad at point
on the Savannah River, at or near the town of
Hamburg, in this State, with the right to unite
with any road now built, or hereafter to be
built, running to the cities of Charleston and
Columbia, or to construct branch from the
main line for that purpose: Provided, That at
the first meeting of the incorporators majori-
ty must be present to transact business: Pro-
uided, further, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed as exempting the said cor
poration from taxation.
SEC. 3. That all Acts, parts of Acts, Joint
Resolutions or parts of Joint Resolutions, in
consistent with this Act, be, and the same are
hereby, repealed Provided, That work shall
be commenced within three years after the pas
sage of this act.
Approved February 26, 1873.