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An Act to incorporate the Nashville and North Western Railroad Company. 1851-1852 82 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0158 and id is 1 raw text is: 82 CHAPTER LXXIV. AN ACT to incorporate the Nashville and North Western Railroad Company, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of InOrPOrantiO the State of Tennessee, That for the purpose of estab- lishing a communication by railroad between Nashville and the Mississippi river, beginning at Nashville and terminating on the Mississippi river in Obion county, the formation of a company is hereby authorized, which when formed,shall be a body corporate by the name and style of the Nashville and North Western Railroad Company, and by the said corporate name shall be ca- pable to buy, receive by gift, hold, sell and convey real and personal estate as hereinafter provided, make con- tracts, sue and be sued, make by-laws, and do all other acts properly incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper to the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and destroy at its pleasure, and have perpetual succession of members. SEC. 2. Books of subscription of thirty thousand shares of the capital stock of said company of one hundred dollars each, shall be opened on the and shall be kept open for sixty 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: At Nashville: Thomas Harding, Jacob McGavock, cominioner. L. Davidson, Joslin, M. R. Cockrill, W. Dozier, H. Hollingsworth, M. Barrow, W. Watkins, Samuel Wat- kins, D. T. McGavock, Willoughby Williams, West H. Humphreys, A. W. Vanleer, Francis MeGavock, Daniel Graham, John 1-arding, Charles Bosley, Newson, Atkison, Bird Douglass and Thomas Sheron. At Charlotte: Sylvester Finley, Robt. McNeilly, Thos. K. Grigsby, John C. Collier and Wm. H. Napier. At Waverly: John Wiley, T. B. Gorin, Robert McCreary, V. S. Allen, H1. H. Marable. At Camden: William McCutchen, C. K. Wylcy, W. P. Morris, E. Perkins and D. P. Hudson. At Paris: B. C. Brown, J. W. Blanton, W. H-. Thompson, J. C. McNeil, L. M. Tharp and C. D. Ven- able. At Dresden: Win. Gleeson, Jno. A. Gardner, Collins McCutchen, James W. Hays, Alfred Gardner and Win. Snapp. At Troy: Cochrane, P. Marberry, Moffat, W. S. S. Harris. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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