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An Act to revive and continue an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southern Rail Road Company. 1850 468 (1850.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0265 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. of Free and Accepted Masons, in Madison county, ap- proved January 17th,. 1848, be, and the same are hereby extended to Magnolia Chapter No. 7, of Free and Accepted Masons, in the town of Brownsville, in the county of Hinds, and Houston Chapter No. 23, in the town of Houston, in the county of Chick- asaw. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1850. CHAPTER 283. AN ACT to revive and continue an act entitled an act to incorporate the Southern Rail Road Company, approved 23d February, 1846. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the foregoing act be, and the same is hereby revived, and the provisions of said act shall be construed as if the same had originally passed and became a law this day, as here- inafter amended. SEC. 2. Be it firt/wr enacted, That the eighth section of said act be amended in this, when the said company shall be organized under the provisions of this act, and shall have finished twenty miles of said road eastwardly of Brandon, that then, and in that case, the Governor of the State is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to said company, the Jackson and Brandoh Rail Road. the slaves belonging to the State on said road, the engines, cars and other pro- perty belonging to the State on such road, m ith all the privileges attached thereto, as expressed in the charter of said Jackson and Brandon Rail Road Company: Provided, that the company herchy in- corporated shall give bond in a penalty, to be ap- proved by the Governor, conditioned to apply all the property herein to be transferred to the finishing and completing said road to the Alabama line: And pro- vided further, that the State hereby retains its right to reclaim said road and property, if said extended road be not finished to the Alabama line: And pro- vided further, said road be fully completed by said company to the Alabama line within six years after the passage of this act. 468

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