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An Act to be entitled an act to incorporate Pontotoc Branch Rail Road Company. 1852 170 (1852.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0280 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 60. AN ACT to be entitled an act to incorporate Pontotoc Branch Rail Road Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That Geo. R. Reneau, Sam'l. J. Heigh, . 0. Grisham, C. P. Coffin, Robert Gordon, M(a me William H. Duke, Andrew Miller, James W. Drake, road with Isaac P. Carr, William W. Leland, Jackson Thomas- single or ton, William B. Walker, Wolf Stepacher, Harvey trac.e Goodrich, Charles W. Martin, Joel Pinson, John R. Jones, Benjamin D. Anderson, Robert Scott, William Wilson, Miles H. Morris, Charles D. Fontaine, Rich- ard Bolton, William L. Dogan, Hugh R. Miller, Benjamin C. Earle, Stephen Threlkeld, John Bor- land, Samuel Barr, J. F. Ellison, John S. Cobb, with other persons, as shall associate with them for that purpose, are constituted a body politic and corpo- rate, by the name of the Pontotoc Branch Rail Road Company, and by that name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of this State, to make and have a common seal, and the same to break after or amend at pleasure, and the said Company is hereby vested with all powers, privileges and immunities, which are, or may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes and ob- jects of this act hereinafter set forth, and said Company is hereby authorised and empowered to locate, construct, and finally complete a single or double Rail Road way, from some suitable point on the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road, in the county of Pontotoc, if the same shall be located through said county, if not, then from some point on the said Mobile and Ohio Rail Road, in the county of Itawamba, to the town of Pontotoc; and said Com- pany shall have power to purchase with the funds of said Company, and place on said Rail Road all machines, vehicles, cars, carriages and locomotives, of any description whatever, and to transport, take and carry property and persons upon said Rail Road, or way, by the power and force of steam, of ani- mals, or of any other mechanical, or other power, or any combination of them, which the said Com- pany may choose to apply, and for the purpose of constructing said Rail Road or way, the said Com- pany is hereby authorised to lay out their Road,, 170

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