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further, that this section shall not be construed to have any effect upon the valuation of said lands for taxation.

SEC. 5. That the said corporation, for the purpose of drainage and for the purpose of navigation and transportation with any and all kinds of boats or rafts, is hereby vested with power to widen, deepen or straighten the channels or runs and to cut canals in the Big swamp in Robeson county, North Caroliną, from where it empties into Lumber river to its head near the Cumberland county line, and likewise in Coward swamp in said county of Robeson from Lumber river to the Ashpole swamp, and in Ashpole swamp from the South Carolina line to McLeod's mill near Pleasant Grove Baptist church, and in Raft swamp from Lumber river to its head; and to cut all such other canals in the counties of Robeson, Columbus and Bladen as may be useful or necessary in the conduct of the business of said corporation; and it is hereby vested with all the rights and privileges secured to canal companies by chapter thirty-eight of The Code of North Carolina and any amendments thereto. And in case said corporation is unable to agree with the owner for the purchase of any real estate required for the purpose of constructing any canal, it shall have the right to acquire title to the same in the same manner and by the special proceedings prescribed in chapter forty-nine of said Code and any amendments thereto: Provided, that said corporation shall have the right to abandon and not keep open any canal or stream opened or improved by it when the same shall have become unnecessary for the conduct of its business: Provided further, that in no case shall the said corporation be allowed to recover any sum from any person by reason of any benefit that may accrue to the lands of such person by the opening of any canal or draining of any stream or the building. of any railroad in said counties: Provided further, that in all cases where the opening of any stream or canal or the building of any road it shall require the building of any bridge across county roads, it shall be the duty of the said corporation to build and keep in good repair any such bridges so long as the said corporation may use such roads or canals.

SEC. 6. That said corporation may subscribe to the capital stock of all other corporations which may be projected in this state; it may buy, sell, own, hold and deal in real estate (subject to the limitations contained in section four), standing trees, lumber, lumbermen's materials and supplies, goods, wares and merchandise of any and all kinds; it may build, equip and operate saw-mills, planing-mills, stave-mills, shingle-mills, dry-kilns, hotels, boarding-houses and all other buildings, mills, machinery and apparatus necessary and convenient for the conduct of its business; it is hereby authorized to build and equip with rolling and other stock and to operate all such railroads, tramroads, turnpikes and other roads as will connect its mills, buildings and premises at Hub, North Carolina, with railroads now in operation

or that may hereafter be operated in Robeson, Bladen or Columbus
county, or with any lands the said corporation now owns or may here-
after own in any of said counties (Provided, that the said corpora- Proviso.
tion shall have full power to dispose of by sale or otherwise or to cease
to operate and to remove any railroad or tramroad it may build when
the same shall become unnecessary for the prosecution of its business);
and to that end it may build bridges, dams and culverts across any
streams or depressions in said counties over which it may desire to
pass, and in said counties it may establish, maintain and equip tele-
graph or telephone lines, warehouses, gas-works, water-works, electric
lights and any works that may be necessary and convenient for the
prosecution of any of the business that it is herein authorized to
engage in; and to the end that said corporation may lawfully engage
in the constructing, maintaining and operating the railroads, tram-
roads, turnpikes and other roads in this section mentioned, it has
hereby conferred on it all the powers, privileges and immunities con-
ferred upon railroad and telegraph companies by chapter forty-nine
(49) of The Code of North Carolina and any amendments thereto;
and in case said corporation is unable to agree with the owner for the
purchase of any real estate necessary or convenient for the purpose
of constructing and operating any road, it shall have the right to
acquire the title to the same in the manner and by the special pro-
ceeding provided in said chapter forty-nine of The Code of North
Carolina and any amendments thereto.

SEC. 7. Said corporation shall have power to sell, convey, lease, Corporate powimprove, manage, develop, mortgage, dispose of, or otherwise deal ers. with, any or all of its property; to lend money, to make, accept, endorse and execute promissory notes, bonds, drafts and other commercial instruments; to raise money in such manner as it may see fit, to issue mortgage bonds upon any or all of its property, and to do all such other acts and things as are incident to and conducive to the accomplishment of any or all of the objects in this act set forth, not inconsistent with the laws of this state.

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SEC. 8. That said corporation shall have power to collect reasonable charges on all persons and freights of every kind transported tation charges. over any of the railroads, tramroads, canals, or over any of the above-named streams which may be opened or improved by it for the purpose of navigation.

SEC. 9, That if any person shall in any manner wilfully obstruct wilful obstructhe canals, streams improved, railroads, tramroads, or other works tion of canals, &c., a misdeof said corporation, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon meanor. conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of

the court, and said corporation is hereby fully authorized to remove

any such obstruction,

SEC. 10. That said corporation is hereby granted all the rights and Corporate existprivileges contained in this act to it and its successors and assigns for ence.

Corporate rights.

Conflicting laws sixty years, and all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act
repealed.
are hereby repealed in so far as they affect the same, and no further.
SEC. 11. That upon the ratification of this act the said "Butters
Lumber Company" shall become vested with all the property, both
real and personal, now owned by it, subject to the rights, privileges
and immunities herein contained.
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SEC. 13. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 27th day of February, A. D. 1893.

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CHAPTER 115.

An act to incorporate the Piedmont Toll Bridge Company.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That W. V. Clifton, T. H. Vanderford, F. B. Arendell and D. R. Julian, and such others as may be associated with them, their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate under the name of "The Piedmont Toll Bridge Company," and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have a common seal; and have and enjoy all rights, privileges, franchises and immunities pertaining to corporations. May adopt such by-laws and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as may be necessary to carry out the objects of the corporation. Said company shall exist for a period of sixty years; and may buy, sell, lease, hold and deal in real estate and personal property.

SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be twenty-five' thousand dollars ($25,000) divided into such number of shares as the by-laws may determine. That any subscriber to the capital stock of said company may pay for the same in money, lands, labor, bridge material, or other articles of value in such manner and on such terms as may be agreed upon by said company and such subscriber.

SEC. 3. That at any time within two years from the passage of this act the corporators above named, any two of whom may act, may cause books of subscription to be opened at Salisbury or Lexington, North Carolina, or both; and whenever the sum of one thousand dollars has been subscribed, any one of said corporators may call a general meeting of the stockholders for organization, at which meeting or at any general meeting not less than a majority of the capital subscribed, represented either in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. At the first general meeting of the stockholders it shall be their duty to elect from among

their number a president, secretary, who shall also be treasurer, and a board of directors of not less than three nor more than five, who shall also be stockholders, each to hold office for one year or until their successors are chosen, and have the management of the affairs of the company.

across Yadkin

land.

SEC. 4. That said company shall have the right to construct, own Authorized to and operate a toll-bridge across the Yadkin river at a point within build a toll-bridge two miles of and either above or below the Richmond and Danville river. Railroad bridge near Holtsburg in Davidson county. That if said company and the owner of any lands which may be necessary for the Condemnation of location of said bridge, the building of a keeper's house, or the laying out and opening of any public road to or from said bridge shall not be able to agree on a price for the same, or for any cause said land cannot be purchased from the owner, the same may be taken by the company at a valuation to be ascertained as follows, namely: On application by the company to any justice of the peace for the county in which said land may be situated it shall be the duty of said justice of the peace to issue his warrant to the sheriff of said county to summon a jury of not less than five freeholders to meet on the land on the day named in such warrant, not less than five nor more than twenty days thereafter, and on receipt of said warrant the sheriff shall summon the jury and notify the owner of the land of the time and place at which he has summoned the jury to meet, and when met if three or more shall appear he shall administer an oath to them that they will impartially value the land. The proceedings of said jurors or a majority of them, accompanied by a description of the land, shall be returned under their hands and seals by the sheriff to the clerk of the superior court, there to remain as a matter of record, and on payment of said valuation into the office of the clerk of the superior court the land shall vest in the company: Provided, that if either the owner Right of appeal. or owners of such lands or the company shall be dissatisfied with the valuation of said jurors, either party may have an appeal to the superior court of the county in which the land is situated, but such appeal shall not delay nor interrupt said company from using said land for purposes named pending such appeal.

SEC. 5. That said company shall prescribe rates to be charged for Rates of toll. tolls in their by-laws, but they shall in no case exceed the following rates: For man on foot, five cents; for man on horse, ten cents (10); for one-horse wagon or buggy, twenty-five cents (25); for two-horse wagon, buggy, carriage or other vehicle, forty cents (40); for three or four-horse wagon, fifty-cents (50); for five or six-horse wagon, sixty cents (60); for loose hogs or sheep, one cent (1) per head; for loose cattle or horses, two and a-half cents (21) per head. A penalty of five Penalty for fast riding. dollars shall be imposed on any person who shall ride over the com

pany's bridge at a pace faster than a walk.

SEC. 6. That this act shall take effect from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 27th day of February, A. D. 1893.

Corporate limits.

Conflicting laws repealed.

CHAPTER 116.

An act to change the corporate limits of the town of Thomasville in Davidson county.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That the corporate limits of the town of Thomasville, Davidson county, North Carolina, be as hereinafter described: That the corporate limits shall measure one-half mile north and south from the center of the crossing of Salem and Glenanna streets, and shall measure five-eighths of a mile west and east from the same point, and lands inside this line shall embrace the corporate limits of the town of Thomasville.

SEC. 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 27th day of February, A. D. 1893.

Chapter 33, private laws 1885, amended.

CHAPTER 117.

An act to amend the charter of the town of Kinston, Lenoir county, chapter thirty-three, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That chapter thirty-three of the private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five be and the same is hereby amended as folChange of corpo- lows: Strike out all from the word "then" in line twelve, section

rate limits.

Execution of process by police

men.

Conflicting laws repealed.

two thereof to the word "then" in line fifteen, and insert in lieu
thereof the following: South eighty-seven and one-half degrees east
one hundred and sixty-four poles to a stake, then south five and one-
half degrees west to the south side of the extension of Bright street.
SEC. 2. That any policeman of the town of Kinston or any con-
stable or other lawful officer of Lenoir county shall have power to
execute the warrants, precepts and other writs of the mayor of the
town of Kinston anywhere in the county of Lenoir.

SEC. 3. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 27th day of February, A. D. 1893.

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