| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| February 19, 1862 |
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| An Ordinance |
| Supplemental to an Ordinance ratified at the present
session of this Convention, entitled "An Ordinance in addition
to, and amendment of an Act of the General Assembly, ratified in the
15th day of February, 1861, entitles, an Act to incorporate the
Chatham Railroad Company, and to repeal an At supplemental thereto,
ratified the 23d of February, 1861," and authorizing certain
persons to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said
Company. |
| Be it ordained, &c., That an
Act of the General Assembly, entitled "An Act to incorporate the
Chatham Railroad Company," be amended by adding to the second
section the following: "And a majority of said Commissioners
shall be competent to transact business; and in the meantime it shall
be lawful for books of subscription to said stock to be opened in the
City of Raleigh, under the direction of Geo. W. Mordecai, William
Henry Jones, and Wm. W. Vass, or either of them; in the town of
Newbern, under the direction of Edward Stanly, A. T. Jerkins, W. H.
Oliver, or any one of them; in the town of Greensboro', under the
direction of E. A. Thompson, Richard Washington, P. A. Wiley, or any
one of them; at Pittsboro', under the direction of H. A. London, John
H. Haughton, John A. Womack, or any one of them; at Haywood, under the
direction of B. I. Howze, R. K. Smith, J. N. Clegg, or any one of
them; at Warrenton, under the direction of J. B. Batchelor, John
White, Richard T. Arrington, or any one of them; at Hillsboro' under
the direction of Wm. A. Graham, Thomas Webb, P. B. Rollin or any one
of them; at Smithfield, under the direction of J. W. B. Watson, Edwin
Saunders, J. B. Beckwith, or any one of them; at Oxford, under the
direction of S. S. Royster, C. H. K. Taylor, R. B. Gilliam, or any one
of them; at Louisburg, under the direction of Joseph J. Davis, John
King, D. S. Hill, or any one of them; at Norfolk, under the direction
of S. M. Wilson, Kader Biggs, Jas. Gordon, or any one of them; at
Petersburg, under the direction of W. T. Joynes, R. K. Martin, George
D. Baskerville, or any one of them; and the said general Commissioners
shall have power to appoint a Chairman of their body, Treasurer, and
all other officers their organization may require, and to sue for and
recover all sums of money that ought, under said act, to be recovered
by them in the name of said corporation. |
| Passed and ratified in open Convention,
the 10th day of February, A. D. 1862. |
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