The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-10-02
The Federal Court Judgment.

united SlateS OF America. eastern 0lS-
trict of North Carolina, in the United
States Circuit Court, fourth circuit.
At Raleigh,
The State Of North Carolina, in the
relation of D. w. Balm, Treasurer. against
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Com
pany.-Judgment.
This cause coming in upon the com
plant and answer and upon the facts
admitted, and the decision of the Court
being filed herein, and the defendant
having given notice of its appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States;
and whereas there is pending in the Su-
perior Court of Wake county an action
wherein the Raleigh g. Castor Railroad
is plaintiff and the commissioners of
Wake county are defendants, in which
action are involved questions concerning
the liability of the property of the Raj
eigh & CASTOR Railroad Company to
| taxation, and whereas the authorities of
| the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Com
| pany. who are also in control of the
Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad Company,
| have agreed to and with the State of
| North Carolina and with d. W. Balm,
| Treasurer, to surrender all the exemp
tiOns from taxation of both the
sued, the Seaboard and Roanoke
Railroad Company and the Raj
eigh and CASTOR railroad company,
as will hereinafter more fully appear IN
regard to the Seaboard and Roanoke rail
road company, and as will appear in re-
gard to the Raleigh 81 CASTOR railroad
company in a judgment or decree to be
filed in the case of the Supreme Court of
Wake county hereinbefore mentioned
and whereas it is desirable that all the
matters and things agreed upon and set
tied in this action shall be fully set ont
herein.
Now, therefore, by consent of all the
parties hereto, it is ordered, adjudged
and decreed that under and by virtue Of
the charter Of the Seaboard & Roanoke
railroad company all the property, rea
and personal, of the said Seaboard 6
Roanoke railroad company shall be liable
to taxation in the State of North Caro-
| lima on and after June the first, A. ID
1898. in the same manner as similar prop
erty of railroad companies in the Stat
which are not exempt from taxation, IL
proportion and to the extent of th
: length of the road in North Carolina.
1t is further ordered, adjusted and de
2 creed that the sitsls of the Seaboard AM
: Roanoke company in North Carolina is
: so far as its ownership Of personal prop
. erty is concerned, Subject to the provis
ions of law concerning the assessment o
railroad companies) shall be at it's offic
in the town of Weldon, in the county o
C Halifax, North Carolina.
1t is further ordered. adjudged and de
creed that the plaintiff do receive of tn
/ defendant the sum of seven thousand fv
h hundred dollars 81, 50W which sum sha
: be in full discharge of all taxes due
a the State from the said company up
s and including the year 1892, and for a
e subsequent years the tax of twenty fS
i cents per share, prescribed in the chart'
20 Of the Roanoke railroad company, an
, mentioned in the opinion of the cou
shall not De imposed, levied or collecte
g by the said State, or any authority ther
e. Of, but the shares shall only be subject
the general Law Of North Carolina co