| {Acts of the North
Carolina General Assembly} |
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| An Ordinance to Enable the Western Railroad Company to
Complete Their Road |
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| 1. Be it ordained by the
Delegates of the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, and
it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That that part
of section fifth of an act of the Legislature of North-Carolina,
ratified February 16th, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "an act
to enable the Western Railroad Company to extend their road from the
Coalfields to the North-Carolina Railroad," which requires the president
of said road to certify to the Governor that the company has purchased
the iron rails, chairs and spikes, and will, forthwith, proceed to lay
down and complete each section of ten miles, before said company is
entitled to receive the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, be, and the
same is hereby repealed. |
| 2. Be it further ordained,
That the lien created by the said act, shall extend to cover both the
eastern and western divisions of said road, and all the other property of
said corporation. [Ratified the 10th day of May, 1862] |
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