Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-02-05
OUR NEW RAILROAD i
A Bill to incorporate shs French Broad and
Southern Railroad Company.

Broad and Southern Railroad Com
pany passed the lower house of the
South Carolina General Assembly on
the 9th of January without trouble.
The bill provides in part
That j. r. Hays, Ed. G. Wilson,
I. S. Boswell and w. A. Cash, of
Transylyania county, North Caro-
lima, and E. B. Alsop and G. Iii.
Stalzenbach, of the city of Pitts
burg, State Of Pennsylvania, and
John S. Werner, of CoIambia, S. c.;
B. L. Abney and J.Q. Marshall, of
Columbia; r. A. Thompson, of
Oconee county, S. c.; George e.
Prince, Jas. A. Sullivan, of Ander-
son, s. O.; and @. r. Robinson, of
Pickens, S. c., and such other per-
sons as are now or may hereafter be
associated with them, are hereby
created and declared to be body
corporate and polite, and to exist
for term of sixty years, under the
name and style of "The French
Broad and Southern Railroad Com
pany," and in that name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
contract and be contracted with !;
shall have power to adopt COM
mon seal and change the same at
will, and shall be capable of taking
by purchase, gift or in any other
way real or personal property, and
holding, leasing, conveying or deal
ing with the same, and for the pur-
pose of enabling the corporation to
do all the things and acts necessary
for its purposes it is hereby invested
with all the rights, privileges, immu-
mites and powers conferred upon
railroad companies by the laws of
this State, and may make ordinances,
bylaws and regulations consistent
with the laws of this State, and the
laws of the United States, for the
government of all under its authority,
for the management of its estates
and for the due and orderly conduct
of its affairs.
Section Q. That said company,
upon its organization as hereinafter
provided, shall have power to survey,
lay out, construct, equip, maintain
and operate by steam, electricity or
any other motive power, a railroad
with one or more tracks, and tele-
graph and telephone lines, from the
town of Toxaway, in the county of
Transylvania, to some point on the
main line Of the Southern Railway
between Chauga and Seneca rivers,
in the county of Oconee, State of
South Carolina, and from said South
ern Railway to any point in the State
of South Carolina that may be
agreed upon by the board of direc-
tors of said company, and also have
power to survey, lay out, construct,
equip, maintain and operate by steam
or any other motive power one or
more lines of railroad from either of
the above named points, or from any
point along its main line to any point
within the State of North Carolina
or South Carolina, or any other State,
by complying with the laws of the
State into which it may extend it's
line, and they shall have power to
survey, lay out, construct, equip,
maintain and operate a line or lines
of railroad, to be operated by steam,
electricity or other motive power,
from any point along the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company be-
tween the town of Toxaway, in
Transylyania county, and the town
of Hendersonville, in Henderson
county, to any point in the State of
North Carolina, or to any adjacent
State, by complying with the laws
of said State. The said company
shall also have power t. connect it's
tracks with any other railroad com
pany now chartered, or that nav
hereafter be chartered, and to Law
down and use tracks through or into
any town or city along its proposed
lines, by and with the consent of the
authorities of said city or
town.
Section 8. The capital stock of
the company shall not be less than
fifty thousand ($50,00O) dollars, nor
more than one million ($1,000,0OO
dollars, to be divided into shares of
800 each, and may from time to
time increase between the minimum
and maximum limits hereby pro-
vided, as the stockholders thereof
may determine. The holder of
stock in said company shall in all
meetings of the stockholders be enti-
tied, either in person or by proxy, to
one vote for each share of stock held
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