Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-11
EDGEFIELD TO GAINESVILLE.
Davidson County Asked to Subscribe
S15O,0OO Toward the Construction
Of the Proposed Narr0w-guage X. r.

In the Davidson County Court Tues
day General Quarles was allowed to
present the following credentials and
petition in regard to the GAINESVILLE
and Waynesboro Railroad, which, on
motion of Justice Maxey, were re-
ceived, and laid on the table until the
July meeting for action:
NASHVILLE, TENN, Aprif3, 1874.
At regular meeting of the Com
missioners appointed by the decree of
the Chancery Court at GAINESVILLE for
Davidson County to open books and
solicit stock in the railroad proposed
to be constructed from Clarksville,
Tennessee, to Nashville, Tennessee,
held at the Office of Pennebaker &
Seay, in the city of Nashville, a quo
rum being present, M. Burns, Esq,
was appointed Chairman, and Samuel
Watson was appointed Secretary, when
it was re
Resolved, That James NJ. Quarles
and w. w. Vaughn be, and they are
hereby authorized, empowered and
requested to submit to the County
Court of Davidson County, at its next
quarterly meeting, ON behalf of and
as agents of the GAINESVILLE and
Waynesboro Railroad Company, pro-
position to submit to a vote of the
le- al voters of Davidson County. ac-
cording to law, to transfer $l50,000
of the stock which said county of
Davidson now owns in the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company as
an investment in the capital stock of
that portion of said GAINESVILLE and
Waynesboro r. r. Co. to be built and
constructed between GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
and Nashville or Edgefeld, Tenn,
via Ashland City, in Cheatham
County.
NJ. BURNS, Chairman.
S. WATSON, Secretary.
THE PETITION.
To the Honorable County Court of the
County of Davidson:
The petition of the GAINESVILLE and
Waynesboro Railroad Company, which
by its agents would most respectfully
represent that it is regularly and
legally chartered railroad company
in the State of Tennessee, and proposes
to build. construct, equip, and run a
narrow -guage railroad from the city of
GAINESVILLE, Montgomery County, Ten
nessee, to the city of Edgefeld, David
son County, Tennessee, near the city
of Nashville.
That the company was originally
chartered by the General Assembly of
the State of Tennessee, in the year
1S-, and its charter was afterwards
amended by decree of the Chancery
Court for Montgomery County, Tenn,
pronounced and entered at GAINESVILLE
on the 10th day of March, 1872, copy
of which said decree is hereby filed as
a part of this petition.
That said road will run through a
portion of Davidson County, through
Cheatham County, near Ashland City,
to GAINESVILLE, and when completed
will connect at GAINESVILLE with the
Memphis branch of the l.. and n. r.
r. Co. at Nashville or Edgefeld, with
the various roads now connected at,
and emerging from that city. That its
present organization is Board of
Commissioners for Davidson County,
composed of the following persons :
J. NJ. Quarles, Samuel Watson, ID.
Weaver, NJ. Burns and John Porter
field; so named, empowered and con-
stituted by decree of the Chancery
Court at Clarksville pronounced and
entered into on the 14th day of March,
1872, copy of which decree is also
filed as part of this petition, whose
duty it is to open books and otherwise
secure and obtain subscriptions in and
to the capital stock of said road in
Davidson County. I'D.
The petitioners would further show,
that the Commissioners have had the
entire line of said proposed road care
fully surveyed, indicating the line OF
construction and upon which only
such minor changes will be made as
may be rendered necessary by lOcat-
ing survey; but that the said prelimi-
nary survey has been such as toenable
its engineer to make close approx
mate estimate of the total costs, and