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An Act to incorporate the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company. 1851-1852 574 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0169 and id is 1 raw text is: 574 CHAPTER CCCIII. AN ACT to incorporate the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the &ate of Tennessee, That for the purpose ot establishing Incorporatioa* a communication by railway between the city of Nash- ville and, Cincinnati, through the town of Gallatin, in the county. of Sumner, either by connecting with Ithe Lexington and Danville railway at Danville, or else- where in Kentucky, or with any other railway in the State of Kentucky, which may approach the Tennessee line, or with any railway which may be incorporated by the commonwealth of Kentucky, 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 Cincinnati Railroad Company, and by said corporate name shall be capable in law to buy, re- ceive by gift, hold, sell, lease and convey real and per- sonal estate, make contracts, sue and be sued, to make by-laws, and do all lawful acts properly incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper to the transac- tiin of the business for which it is incorporated, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and destroy at pleasure, and shall have perpetual succession of members. SEc. 2. Be it enacted, That Samuel D. Morgan, Alex. Allison, John M. Hill, John Shelby, Samuel R. Ander- Commissioners, son, John M. Bass, Andrew Ewing, Willo. Williams, Jacob McGavock, A. V. S. Lindsley, M. W. Wetmore, of the county of Davidson; Lee Shute, George Dis- mukes, William C. Moore, Daniel Donalson, Bennett Douglass, William M. Blackmore, Benj. Howard, John J. White, John Branham, Francis Rogan, R. A. Tomp- kins, James Gwin, John W. Henry, Harry Smith, Jas. A. Blackmore, Joseph Harlan, David Chenault, John Patterson, Henry Sarver, H. B. Vaughan, Y. A. Dou- glass, John W. Head, of the county of Sumner; Samuel Sullivan, 0. J. Bratton, Dr. Furlong, King Kirby, John C. Marshall, Jesse G. Bledsoe, D. 0. Pursly, William Robinson, W. Y. Adams, H. L. Pursly, #nderson Briat- ton, P. A. Wilkerson, Win. H. Dewitt, L. B. Griffith, of the county of Macon; John EI. Page, W. F. Evans, A. A. Harvey, Samuel Carpenter, Walter Thomas, R. J. Foster, James C. Mullegan and James Stokes, of the county of Allen, in Kentucky; A. Watkins, J. G. Har- dy, P. J. Kerley, G. W. Trabue, F. Gorin, A. Trigg, R. Murrell, John T. Rogers, James Page, W. E. Mum- ford, J. P. Bates and W. J.Wood, jr., of the county of Digitized from Best Copy Available

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