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Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia 1861-1862 |
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| Chap. 49 -- An Act to sanction an Ordinance of the
State of North Carolina, entitled an Ordinance to incorporate the
Piedmont Rail Road Company. |
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Passed March 27, 1862 |
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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that an
ordnance of the state of North Carolina, entitled an ordinance to
incorporate the Piedmont rail road company, which said ordinance was
passed and ratified in open convention, in the state of North
Carolina, the eighth day of February one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, a duly authenticated copy of which ordinance was
transmitted to the governor of Virginia by W. N. Edwards, president
of said convention, by his letter to said governor, dated Raleigh,
North Carolina, tenth February eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and
by the said governor was submitted to the senate and house of
delegates of Virginia, by his message of the thirteenth day of
February eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is hereby
sanctioned, and a right to construct the said road within the limits
of this state, according to the provisions of the aforesaid charter,
is hereby conferred on the company to be incorporated under the said
charter: provided, that if the corporators to be organized under
said ordinance accept the provisions of this act, it shall be upon
the condition that the said Piedmont rail road company shall not
have power to discriminate on either freight or travel, against the
Richmond & Danville rail road, or any other rail road in Virginia
connected therewith; and upon the further condition, that the
connection of said Piedmont rail road with the Richmond & Danville
rail road, hereby authorized, shall be made at some point south of
Dan river, at or near the town of Danville, unless, in the opinion
of the president of the Confederate states, the military interests
of the country require such connection to be made elsewhere; in
which event, such connection may be made at such point as the
president of the Confederate States shall approve. |
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2. This act shall be in force from its passage. |
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