Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-05-01
The Anderson, Aiken, Port Royal and
Charleston Railroad.

CuaTICbtOh xsoA1ASsNs
We give below the charter Of the An
derson, Aiken, Port Roysl and Charleston
Railroad. as passed at the recent session
Of the Legislature:
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the authorl-
ty of the same,
That John R. Cochran, William Perry,
BID Dean, Jeremiah Hollinshead, B d
Nerland, Stephen Millet, H 7 Peake, Al
exander Isaacs, VIM S HASTE, Charles
Minort, R H. Humbert, R D Gather. W
A Grant, Louis F Spencer, DR. John Will
son, William McGukin, John W Daniels,
w w Humphries, P K McCully, M Nc
Gully, P P Hedges, J G Griffin, W Z
Parker, W R Leavel,- John a Arnold, 1
F Arnold, A F Clinton. Y P Owens, b
A Thompson, W a. Hayne, A 0 Jones,
W ] Etter, G Smith, James A Spencer, h
Maxwell, W E Johnson, W B Nash,
James Brennan, C FNorth, Edward Petty,
Isaac Prioleau, Julius Tingman, B Jack
son, E w Everson, John A Barker, J
Vanderpool, Charles H Sperry, John Viii
son, J ] Grant, James Just, E G Roberts,
J Woodruff, II CeCorwin, John Boston,
J L Boston, Cato Young, John Breazeale,
Robert Tarleton, G A Reed, G D Hayne,
James NJ Smith, Robert Smalls, William
R Jervay, W ] Brodie, S E Gaillard. L
Cain, W H Jones, Jr, David Harris, Sr.,
] E Green, D R Duncan, James L Jaml-
son, Everidge Cain, B F Whittemore, 7
G Dunn, h A Wideman, George Maxwell
N T Spencer, Isaac II White, Thomas A
Martin, Railey Milford, H w Purvis,
Samuel ] Lee, Gloster Holland, W B Jones,
John Wilson, Frederick Nix, R B Artson,
HB johnson, Hastings CAN'T Samuel
Greene, Thomas Hamilton, George + Nc
Intyre, A P Ford, VIM Taft, J S Mobley,
W F Myers, ] B Bascomb, W Mulllgan,
S A Swails, R b Cain, B A Bosemon, Jr.
o R Levy, R Bryan, S J Keith, " NJ
Thomas, J R Tolbert, 81 b Ellison, Paris
Simkins, David Graham, A Simkins, Limns
Simons, Joseph Crews, I ] Webb, w J
McKinlay, Henry Kennedy, G I Williams,
Joseph Martin, A P Holmes, Samuel
Johnson, David Brown, j A Bowley, 3 E
Reise, R W Turner, J J Patterson, Sher-
man Smalls, B Owens, E E Keys, ] NJ
Mckay, ] Stephen, Burrell Edwards,
Henry Reed, William Walker, Richmond
Payton, Lawrence Walker, R A Sisson,
and successors, be, and they are hereby,
declared body polite and corporate, un-
tler the name and style OF the Anderson,
Aiken, Port Royal and Charleston Rail
road Company, and under that name and
style shall be, and are hereby, made capa-
bic to have, purchase, hold and 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 corpo'
rations of similar kind now existing, or
hereafter to be created in this State, ex-
cept the right to interfere with the char
tered rights and privileges Of such corpo-
rations relative to the building and con-
struction of roads. Said railroad compa-
ny, or any Of the same have the right to
cross any road now or hereafter construct
ed: 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. 2. That in addition to The rights,
privileges and franchises conferred upon
this company 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 Anderson to the
town of Aiken, by the way of the towns
of Abbeville and Edge6eld, with the pow
er to build and construct 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 major
ity must be present to transact business
Provided, further, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed as exempt
ing the said corporation from taxation.
Sec. 3. That all Acts, parts of Acts,
Joint Resolutions, or parts OF Joint Reso-
lutions, inconsistent with this Act, be,
and the same are hereby, repealed: Pro.
vided, That work shall be commenced
within three years after the passage Of
this Act:
Approved February 26, 1878