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An Act to incorporate the Grayson Turnpike Company in Marion county, and to incorporate the Brownsville and Raleigh Plank Road Company. 1851-1852 434 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0166 and id is 1 raw text is: 434: company, and that this act take effet from and after its passage.* JORDAN STOKES, Speaker-of he House of Representatives. M. 1. HILL, Speaker of the Senati. Passed, February 12, 1852. CHAPTER CCLXIV. AN ACT to incorporate the Grayson Turnpike Company in Marion county, and toIn corporate the Brownsville and Raleigh Plant Road Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Henry Grayson, is hereby authorized to open as turnpike road, leading. from Altamont to Chattanooga; to commence at the county line between Marion and- Grundy couinties, commenc- ing at the terminus of a road leading from Altamont to the county line; running thence to the top of the mountain, thence down the same at a place called the Stairs, thence to the valley road of Marion county at the most convenient point; the extent to be opened sixteen feet wide, twelve feet in the centre to be clear of stumps, rocks and other obstructions; and crossways Style of road and bridges when necessary, and uponithe sides of the mountains when the nature of the ground is such, that it cannot be extended to the width herein required, said road may be reduced by the consent of the commission- ers, to any width not less than ten or twelve feet, clear of stumps and other obstructions. SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That said road shall alwaysi Tenalty for road be kept in repair, and if it shall be permitted to remain conreJvr. out of' repair for the space of thirty days,- at any one time, then it shall be the duty of the commissioners herein-after appointed by this act, to set said proprie- tor's gate. open, and keep the same open, until said road shall be put in good order, to be adjudged by the said commissioners; said proprietor, for every such of- fence shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dol- lars, to be recovered by action of debt before any acting justice of the peace, having jurisdiction of the same, by any person who will sue for the same, and if said road shall be permitted to remain out of repair for the space of six months at any one time; after the com- Digitized from Best Copy Available

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