The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-03-01

PANY.
1t is proposed to construct, equip, and
maintain an interurban railway line to be OPP
Grated by electricity
The length Of said railroad as near as can
be estimated will be one hundred miles, net
including side tracks, branches, or spurs.
The general direction of the road will be
southwest from the City of Macon via Fort
Valley and Americas to Albany; the names of
the principal places (other than said terminii)
through which it will pass are Byron, Fort
Valley, Marshallve, Montezuma, Oge-
thorpe, Andersonville, Amercus, Sumter,
SmithvilIe, LEESBURG. and ALBANY; and
the counties through which the said road will
probably run are Bib, Crawford, Houston,
Macon, Sumter, Lee, and Dougherty.
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
is the amount of the proposed capital stock,
but the privilege is desired to increase said
capital stock from time to time to the extent
and in the manner provided by law.
petitioners desire authority to issue pre-
ferred stock in any amount not in excess OF
| fifty per cent. OF the common capitol stock
then outstanding; such preferred stock to be
preferred both as to principal and to dividend
or interest over the common stock, and to be
with or without voting power as the corpOr-
alton may determine. The preferred stock
will bear such a rate of dividend or interest
as may from time to time be prescribed to be
paid out of earnings and to be cumulative;
aud such preferred stock may be issued in
such series or classes as the corporation may
determine and declare.
The principal Office Of the corporation will
be in the City of Macon, Bib couEty, Geor-
gia.
The capital stock has already been sub
scribed, and petitioners intend to go forward
without delay to construct, equip, operate
said reilroad
1t is desired that the road may use and oc-
cupy such streets, lanes, alleys, viaducts,
and public places in the several cities and
towns into and through which it may extend
as may be found eApedient and as such cities
and towns may sevtrally permit.
In the City OF Macon it is proposed to use
and occupy the folIOwingS streets, application
for the right, privilege, and franchise of
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by the Mayor and Council, to-wit: Said line
shall enter the City at the intersection of
Boundry and Ebert Streets, the latter being
an extension Ot Fifth Street, proceeding
thence along said Ebert Street and Fifth 10
l1aw thorne street, and thence up Hawthorne
Street to Third street, with the right to con-
meet Oh Third Street its line With the line of
the ATLANTA, GRIFFIN, and MACON
ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY, with such
necessary sidings, spur tracks and switches
as may be necessary, and which may here
after be granted by the Mayor and Council.
In the City OF albany it is desired to use
and occupy the following streets, application
for the right, privilege, and franchise of
which has been made, and the same granted
by the Municipal Authorities of the City of
Albany, to-wit: front, Washington, and
Jackson Streets.
In oth,r cities and towns through which
the road viii run it is proposed to use and
occupy the following streets:
In Fortvalley: Macon, Church, College,
Miller, ana Knoxville Streets;
In Marshallyille: Main and McCaskill
Streets;
In Americus: Elm Avenue, East and Tay-
Tor Street, Reese Street, Mayo Street, Jener-
son Street, Lamar Street, Forsythe Street,
and the proposed Hinkle Street,
Wherefore petitioners pray that they may
be granted certificate of incorporation in
accordance with the laws of this State.