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An Act to establish a company under the name of the Savannah and Charleston Steam-Packet Company. 1836 47 (1836)

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requiring him to execute the same, on person or property as
the case may be, without the limits of the said city, and
within the said district as aforesaid.
SEC. 3. dnd be it further enacted b'y the authority
aforseaid, That all executions now sued out, or hereafter of Exvcvuions.
to be sued out, from the said City Court of Charleston,
shall be tested, made returnable, and be retunrable, in like
manner, as is now directed by law in relation to executions
sued out, from the Courts of General Sessions and Coni-
mnon Pleas of this State.
SEC. 4. dnd e it farther enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the Recorder of the said court, to grant a com- 1neora.
mission to examine any witnesses residing out of tihe city,
when the testimony of such witnesess may he necessary in
any cause depending in the said court.
In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of' Decemlber, in tie
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six
and in the sixty first year of the Sovereignty and I ndepen-
dence of the United Suites of America.
PATRICK NOBLE, Presidrnt o/ the Senate.
1). L. WAt DLA11r, Spwaker f the Housc of
Iepresentat ives.
CHAPTER XII.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COMPANY UNDER THE NAUE OF
,1E SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON STEAM-PACKETr COM -
PANY.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate
and House of Representatives, now met and sitti  in Ge-
neral Assembly, and by the authority of the sane, That
William Seabrook, Walter Dubois, and such other persons as
may become members thecof, be, and they are hereby
declared a body corporate and politic, by the nam: and
style of the Savannah and Charleston Steam Packet Con- Incorporting
pany, with a capital of one hundr ed and tventy-five thin-
sand dollars, with the ight to increase the same to five
hundred thousand dollars, to he divided into shares of one
thousand dollars each, fiir- tle purpose of coven Vl g iaSs('n-
gers, and transporting, Goods, Wares, md 11erchund ize, by
Steam-Packets between the city of Sn'van .ah, in lie Stite
of Georgia, and the city of Charleston, in tihe State of South
Carolina, or between the said city of Charleston, and any
other Port on the Atlantic Board at the election from time
to time of the Directors of the said Company.

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