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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0135 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS
OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE,
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY.SIXTII CENERAL AS-
SEMBLY, WIllCll WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT NASHVILLE, ON MONDAY.
THE SIXTH DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND FORTY-1VE.
CHAPTER I.
An Act to Incorporate the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company.
SECTION 1. Bc it enacted by thc General Assembly of the Niue n,
Stato of Tennessce, That for the purpose of establishing a Ve.
communication, by railroad, between Nashville and Chat-
tanooga, the formalion of a company is hereby authorized.
which, when formed, shall be a body corporate by the
name and style of The Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-
road Company, and by said corporate name shall be ca-
pable in law to buy, receive by gift, hold, sell, and con-
vey real and personal estate, as hereinafterprovided, make
contracts, sue and be sued, to make by-laws, and to do all
lawful acts properly incident to a corporation, and neces-
sary and proper to the transaction of the business for which
iWts incorporated, and to have and use a common sea], and
the same to alter and destroy at its pleasure, and shall
have perpetual succession of members.
SEc. 2. Books for subscription of sixty thousand shares ions oeniw.
of the capital stock of said company, of twenty-five dol-
lars each, shall be opened on the first 1\onday in January,
1846, and shall be kept open for six days, between the
hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the
evening of each of those days, at the following places, and
by the following commissioners, to wit:
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