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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 the 15th day of February, 1861, Entitled "An Act to
Incorporate the Chatham Railroad Company and to Repeal an Act
Supplemental Thereto, Ratified the 23rd of February, 1861," and
Authorizing Certain Persons to Open Books of Subscription to the
Capital Stock of Said Company. |
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| Section 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 an act of
the General Assembly, entitled "An act to incorporate the Chatham
Railroad Company," be amended by adding to section 2d the following:
"And a majority of said general commissioners shall be competent to
transact business; and in the mean time 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 Ed.
Stanley, A. T. Jerkins, W. H. Oliver, or any one of them; in the town of
Goldsboro, 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 and I. N.
Clegg, or any one of them; at Warrenton, under the direction of J. B.
Batchelor, Jno. White, Richard T. Arrington, or any one of them; at
Hillsboro, under the direction of William A. Graham, Thos. Webb, P. B.
Ruffin, or any one of them; at Smithfield, under the direction of J. W.
B. Watson, Edwin Sanders, 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 J. J. Davis, J.
King, E. 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; and at
Petersburg, under the direction of W. T. Joyner, R. K. Martin, and
George D. Baskerville, or any one of them; and 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. |
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Ratified the 10th day of February, 1862 |
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