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Please file this letter with paper enclosed.
Minutes of Directors Carolina, Cum
bcrland Gap and Chicago Rail
way Company.
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CHARLESTON, S. c., 5 March, 1885.
The Board Of Directors of the Carolina,
duly summoned to a Meeting at the Charles
ton Hotel on the Sd Of March, 1855. There
were present Johnson Hagood. A. H Gregg,
Lewis Jones, Theodore Croft and Il. w. Had.
don being one less than a quorum. A large
and enthusiastic meeting Of Delegates from
the several towns along the Carolina Division
OF the said Railway which was then In ses-
sion at the same place having advised calling
upon their constituents at once under the A.
A. approved % Dec. 1883 for subscriptions In
Town Bonds and recommended that the same
be accompanied by certain conditions on the
part of the Railway, said conditions were APP
proved by the members of the Board present,
and the President directed to obtain by mail
or otherwise the signatures of IL sufficient
number of the Board to the following resolu-
quorum and to file the same with the records.
OF the Railway. The President was also d.
rccted to sign the necessary. papers to make
these conditions a part of the SUBSCRIPTIONS
now about to be voted upon. w. RI. Scho1eld
President Of the Atlantic and Northwestern
Company was also present and endorsed the
conditions of subscriptions referred to-.
"Whcrcds, The Board of Directors of the Carroll
M, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway Company is
a.out to submit to the several towns and townships
along the Carolina Division of said Railway the ques-
ton Of subscription to its capital stock under the pro.
visions of the Act of the General Assembly of South
Carolina approved 90 D c., 1883.
1ICSDtCCl, 1ulL Ill lie Z u MY GVNu vi ~"
ship voting ~tavnrably upon the question Of subscrip'
ton thus submitted the bonds to be issued Hereunder
shall be deposited in the Carolina Savings Bank of
Charleston in trust to be delivered to the President of
the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicsco Railway
only upon q completed line to said town or through
said township.
Pesolrcd, That each town or township shall re-
ceive for its subscription at par one half the amount
thereof in lncume Bonds md one half in capital
stock of said Railway"
PRESIDENTS OFFICE c., c. G. & c. Ry..
AIKEN S. c., 8 Nov. 1883.
johnson Hagood, President do certify that
the foregoing is Il true copy of the minutes o!
the Board of Directors Of the Carolina, Cum.
berland Gap and Chicago Railway Company
at the meeting held In Charleston on 5 March,
1855. That as directed the signatures Of each
and every member of the Board Of Directors
which paper is now on file in my office. / al.
so certify that the Atlantic and Northwestern
Company has furnished me with Il properly
authenticated cop their proceedings on June
I'd, 1885, ratifying and confirming the cOndi-
lions of subscription as far as they are Inter
estcd therein through their construction con.
tract, which paper Is also on file In my office.
And as directed in the minutes above copied
and by authority Of the Board OF Directors.
l do hereby execute this paper to make the
conditions above written q part Of the sub
the towns and townships Of Abbeville county
in pursuance of the call made upon them un.
der the A. a. approved % Dec, 1883.
Witness my hand and the seal Of the COM
pany
Attest: JOHNSON HAGOOD. tL.S.I
JAS. ALDRICn Prcsdt {. G. q. d c. Ry.
Acting Secty.