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An Act to incorporate the Tennessee Western and Charleston Railroad Company. 1853-1854 356 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0178 and id is 1 raw text is: 356 privileges and obligations can be applicable to said Agricultural Bank of .Tennessee. WM. H. WISENER, Speaker of the Rouse of Representatives. EDWIN POLK, Speaker of the Aenary. Passed, March 4, 1854. CHAPTER CCXVI. AN ACT to incorporate the Tennessee Western and Charleston Railroad Company. SECTIOI4 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That for the purpose of establish- ing a direct communication by railroad between the State of Tennessee and the city of Charleston, and to form a connection with the railroads that have their ter- minus at the city of Chattanooga, the formation of a company is hereby authorized, which, when formed, shall be a body corporate, by the name and style of The Tennessee Western and Charleston Railroad Company, and by said corporate name shall be capable in law, to buy, receive by gift, hold, sell and convey real and per- sonal estate,, as hereinafter provided; make contracts; sue and be sted; make by-laws; and d6 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 to have perpetual succession of members. SEC. 2. Books for subscription of thirty thousand Books to be shares of capital stock of said company, of fifty dollars openedt each, shall be opened on the first Monday in March, 1854, and shall be kept open thirty days between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the evening, at the' following places, and by the following commissioners: At Madisonville, in Monroe county-William M. Stakely, Joseph Johnston, John King, Gilferd Cannon, Commissioners James A. Coffin, Robert F. Cooke, B.C. Pettit, Joseph J. Wright, E. E. Griffith, Daniel Heiskell, Joseph Walker, John Wilson, Robert Russell, Barclay McGhee, D. W.

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