The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-17
8Tl:MI'3tTS AND KNOX
EIEI.E.
Resolutions Passed at the Re
cent vi eeti5,g of the Board
of Directors Held at


At q meeting of the hOar.l oF direct
ors ~ the Memphis and Knoxville rail-
I road company, at Bolivar. on Tuesday.
the first day oi june, Col. b. NJ. Tilman,
OF NJ Marry county, offered The follow
ing preamble and resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Memphis and Knox
vile railroad company are now, as they
eyer have been, ready to build this lins.
of railroad rs rapidly as possible, and il
/ now appearing that a considerable sub
scripiiou has been made to the capital
stock OF this company by Pulaski and
'awreneeburg people between Che said
al Hcfs, and il appearing chat said sub
scri Ners are DESTROYS that the line of the
road tTom Pulaski TO Lawrenceburg
shall be let; il is, therefore,
RssnfC, a, That the president of this
conlnanv = hereby, with the assent Of
the executive committee, authorized
and empower ed to let out the grading
OF the sIemDhiS aud Knoxville railroad
from Pulaski, 70 contractors, just so
soon as sufficient boRd 5de means have
been secured tn complete the grading,
bridging and crosstielng of the line
from Pulaski to Lawrenceburg, ANA
that the president be authorized To put
,.inVaSsers TO make up any deficit that
ulflN Dt DGbA EEll TIC itAAOAil-b 4lOM SUI
,,ri bed and the amount necessary TO
complete the grading, bridging and
crossueing Oi said line from Pulaski to
Lawrenceburg.
ResolUed, That the president, with the
advice of the executive committee, be
also authorized 10 let out the grading,
bridging ami crosstieing of said read
east OF Pulaski TO Fayetteville, in Lin
coln county, and west from Lawrence
burg Ia the Tennessee river, and from
the tennessee river TO Henderson sta
ton SO soon a. sufficient means can be
secured to complete the grading, bridg-
ing and crOsstieing OF the same.
ReSOired, This company hereby au-
thOriZes the president in the name of
the company to make application To the
quarterly court of Wayne county to
submit "a proposition to the voters of
said county to rake such al amount of
stock in the Memphis and Knoxville
railroad company a. they will in order
TO assist in building said road
ReSolced, That the president with the
advice OF the executive committee of
this company, be authorized and re-
quested to take steps looking to an il.
crease OF subscription OF stock TO thil
company in Hardin, Henderson. Fayette
and Shelby counties, and as soon as the
creased toan amount sufficient to grade,
crOss-tie and bridge the same, that the
work shall be let out to contractors.
ReSOiged, That each member OF this
board will use his utmost exertions TO
have the whole line from Memphis to
Fayetteville put under contract ut the
earliest possible moment.
ReSolced, That the president of this
company be authorized and requested
to enter into a correspondence with
General imbOden, Hon John Enders
and others, looking to the extension of
this road, or the connection of this road
with other three feet gauge roads, so as
to form through line from Norfolk,
Virginia or some point on the Atlantic
coast, to Memphis and the Mississippi
river, and that he report to the next
meeting of this board what he may have
done.
AT this meeting Ex-Governor John
c. Brown, OF Pulaski, and L. B. Ad-
ans, of Bolivar, were elected directors
in place of L. J. Davie, resigned, and
d. [. Wells, deceased.