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Chap. XXI. An Act for the relief of the Brunswick &
Albany railroad company.
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| Whereas, The Brunswick & Albany railroad,
in the State of Georgia, has been run and used as a military necessity,
from the month of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to the
present time, and no charge for the use of the said road has been made
by the proprietors thereof, against the government: Therefore, to
preserve the said railroad from being broken up or destroyed, |
| The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That the stocks and bonds of the Brunswick &
Albany railroad company, returned, or which may be returned to the
receiver at Savannah, as property of alien enemies, and sequestered, or
which may be sequestered by decree of the proper courts, shall not be
sold at public auction, nor otherwise disposed of during the continuance
of the war, but shall, after the ratification of peace between the
Confederate States and the United States, be appraised in the following
manner: One appraiser shall be appointed by the judge of the district
court of the Confederate States for the district of Georgia; another
shall be appointed by the board of directors of said company; and these
two shall appoint a third; and their appraisement shall be made under
oath and in writing, and filed with the clerk of the said district
court. When the said appraisement shall be made, the said company shall
have the privilege of paying, within ninety days thereafter, to the
receiver at Savannah, the amount of said appraised value; and upon such
payment, the possession and title to the said stock and bonds, shall
vest in, and be transferred to the said company: Provided, however,
That by accepting the relief hereby granted, and upon payment of the
said appraised value, the said company shall be held and taken to have
relinquished all claim against the Confederate States, for compensation
for the use of their said railroad. |
| Approved April 16, 1863. |
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