The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-11
Charter of the Anderson and Easlcy
Railroad Company.

Be ii enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That Stephen McCuly, J.
n. Brown, ]. S. Murray, ST.. p. A. Will
hite, w. w H mphreys, n. X. Sullivan,
G. F. Tolly, James II. Mcconnell, w. B.
Watson, Z. B. Murray, B. +. Whitner,
T. w. Martin, J. N. Vandiver, W. A.
McFall, J. T. McFalI, M. b. Williams,
w. A. Neal, D. H. Russell, w. S. Pick
ems, J. w. Rosamond, j. S. Latham, T.
H. Russell, J. R. Gossett, R. E. Bowen,
w. r. Bowen, D. F. Bradley, r. A.
Child, A. 7. Broyles, P. K. McCully, and
such other persons and corporations as
may be associated with them, and their
successors and assigns be, and they are
hereby, declared and created body
polite and corporate by the name and
style of the Anderson and Easley Rail-
road Company" and by name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer aud be answered unto, in any
court of law or equity in this State or in
the United States; may make bylaws
and appoint all necessary officers and
prescribe their duties, and may accept,
purchase, hold and convey any property,
either real or personal, necessary for the
purposes hereinafter mentioned; may
make contracts, have and use common
seal, and do all other lawful acts prop
erly incident to and connected with said
corporation and necessary for the control
and transaction of its business: Pro-
vided, That their bylaws be not rcpug-
nant to the Constitution and laws of this
State or of the United States.
SEC. 2. That the said company be, and
hereby is, authorized and empowered to
construct, maintain and operate rail-
road extending from the town of Ander-
son, S. c., to Easley, in the County of
Pickens, S. c., and from thence across
the mountains to such point in North
Carolina as may be fixed by said COM
pany: Provided, The State line shall be
crossed at a point in Pickens County
and the said railroad company are here
by authorized and empowered to connect
with any railroad now built or hereafter
to be built at Anderson and at Easley,
and may combine or consolidate with any
railroad now built or hereafter to be built
at Easley upon such terms and condi-
tions as may be agreed upon.
SEC. 8. That for the purpose of carry
ing out the intentions of this act the
said Anderson and Easley Railroad
Company" is invested with all and sim
gular the rights, powers and privileges
granted in the Act entitled "An Act to
charter the Savannah Valley Railroad
| Company" approved March II, 1878,
| and the Acts amendatory thereof, passed
before the date hereof, except that the
same shall only apply to the territory
embraced in the towns of Anderson, Eas-
lev and Pickens, and the townships Of
Broadway, Garvin and Brushy Creek, in
Anderson County, and Easley, in Pick
ems County, for the purpose of making
corporate subscriptions, which said town.
ships are hereby declared and created
bodies polite and corporate under the
said names respectively, and are vested
with all of the powers and rights given
to the townships named in the said Act
to charter the Savannah Valley Railroad
Company and the said Acts amendatory
thereof; and the County Commissioners
of Anderson and Pickens counties are
hereby constituted and declared to be
the corporate agents of all townships so
incorporated situate within the limits of
their respective counties.
SEC. 4. The said company may organ
izc and begin the construction of said
railroad rs soon as the sum of twenty
thousand dollars shall be subscribed to
the capital stock.
SEC. 5. This Act shall be deemed a
public Act, and take effect on and after
its passage: Provided, Its provisions
shall cease and determine unless the con-
struction of said railroad is begun on or
before the 1st day of January, a. ID.