| {Acts of the North
Carolina General Assembly} |
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| Resolution Instructing a Joint Select Committee of Two
on the Part of the Senate and three of the House in Regard to Railroads |
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| Resolved, That a joint
select committee of two from the Senate and three from the House be
instructed to inquire if any of the railroad companies, in
North-Carolina, have violated and forfeited their charters, and in what
manner they have so violated and forfeited them whether by raising their
freights above their chartered privileges, by refusing to receive and
transport freight, by charging unlawful and unusual prices for freight,
by transporting freight for some parties in preference to others, by
conveying some passengers over their roads and refusing others, by
absolutely refusing to convey freights, by contracting with express
companies, in preference to private citizens, by dividing profits with
express companies, by fraud, by conception, by bribery, by certificates
to keep men out of the army, by keeping more men out of the army than
the roads need, by entering into contracts with men to keep them out of
the army for consideration and profit, by being paid directly or
indirectly to keep men out of the army, by neglecting and refusing to
provide suitable and comfortable accommodations for their passengers,
for detention of goods, for neglect of duty, for extortion and an intent
to evade the law, and for every other manner in which they have violated
their chartered rights. |
| Resolved, That said
committee have power to send for persons and papers, to compel the
attendance of stockholders, directors and all officers and employees of
said roads, to compel the attendance of witnesses, to swear witnesses
and examine parties under oath. |
| Resolved, That said
committee have power to regulate and fix their own times and places of
meeting and adjournment during the present session, in vacation, or
during any subsequent session, and that when their investigation shall
have been completed, they report to the General Assembly if in session,
and if not in session to the Governor, and that said committee receive
the per diem and mileage of members of this General Assembly. [Ratified
the 6th day of February, 1865.] |
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