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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0545 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 197.] AN ACT
To Incorporate the Mountain Railroad Contracting
Company.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Ipresent-
alives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convenec.
That John I. Mason, Jno. R. Harris, Jim Henry Malone,
J. Haywood, James William Richardson, A. C. Cain, WM.
T. Allen, J. W. S. Dannell, 1B. W. Maclin, with others,
Bod corporate. their associates, %nd such as they may associate with them
for the purpose, are heroby constituted a body politic and
corporate, by the name of the Mountain Railroad Contract-
ing Company, and by that name shall be capable in law of
purchasinhg, holding, leasing, selling and conveying real,
personal and mixed property, and by that name iay sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court in this
State and elsewhere, to make and have a common seal, and
the same to break, alter or renew at pleasure, and the com-
pany is hereby vested with all the rights, powers, authority,
privileges and immunities which are or may be required,
or necessary to contract with and to carry into ciehct any
and all contracts or agreements which said Mountain Rail-
road Contracting Company, may or shall make to and with
the Tennemsce and Alabama Railroad Company for the
Fingle or doble location, construction and completion of a single or double
track. railroad or way, together with all the rolling stock or
equipment thereof of that portion of the line of the *wtid
Tenessesse and Alabama Central Railroad, extending
from the town of Decatur, in Morgan county, Alabama,
crossing the North-mEastern and South-West railroad, at or
near Elyton, to that point, where said line of railroad shall
inteisect or touch the Alabama and Tenniesee Rivers rail-
road, at or near Montevallo, in the county of Shelby, State
of Alabaoa.
Smic. 2. Be it further nacted, That as soon as the labor
or service of two hundred or more negioes, one hundred
.Avroes, nmu ales, one hu n adred carts, with the necessary tools and out-
fit, or their equivalent in money shall have been subscribed
by good and solvent imen, upon the stock books of' said
Mountain hailroad Contracting Company, any three of the
corporators herein shall call a meeting of the stockholders
None. at such time and place as they may appoint, by giving
thi rty days notice in some public newspaper; at such meet-
ing said stockholders or a Imajority of them in value, shall
elect not less than five nor more than nine Directors by
1850-'60.
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