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

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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

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