Acts passed by the General Assembly of Georgia, 1866
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Dalton & Jacksonville Railroad Companies. (No. 211.) An Act to alter and
amend an Act, entitled an Act to incorporate the Coosa and Chattooga River Rail
Road Company, and for other purposes, mentioned in the title of said Act.
Sec. I.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, That the time mentioned in
the 2nd section of said Act, for the finishing and completion of said Rail Road,
be extended to ten years, from the date of this Act; Provided, That
nothing herein contain, shall be so construed as to affect in any way, the
liability of the Stockholders or subscribers, to said road.
Sec. II.
Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved 10th
March, 1866.
(No. 212.)
An Act to amend
the charter of the Dalton and Jacksonville Rail Road
Company, and Acts passed in relation to the same. •
Sec. I.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Slate of
Georgia General Assembly met, That the Acts,
and part of an Act of the General Assembly of this
State, hereinafter designated, that is to say, an Act entitled an Act to
construct and build a Rail Road from the city of Dalton, in Whitfield county, to
some fit and eligible point on the Alabama line, on the most practicable route
from Dalton to Gadsden, on the Coosa River, " ammend. proved February 18th,
1854, and the Act entitled "an Act to alter and change the second section of an
Act incorporating the Dalton and Gadsden Rail Road Company, approved February
25th, 1856", and the fourteenth (14th) section of the Act entitled "an Act to
incorporate the Middle Georgia Telegraph Company"
; also, to change the name of the " Dalton and Gadsden Railroad Company, and for
other purposes, approved December 19th, 1S59", and the Act entitled " an Act
authorizing the Dalton and Jacksonville Rail Road Company to extend their Road
to the North Carolina line, and to unite and be consolidated with other Rail
Road companies in Georgia, North Carolina, and
Alabama, and to authorize the said company, and the
Georgia and Alabama Rail Road company to consolidate, approved December
19th, 1860", be, and the same are hereby amended as a whole, as hereinafter
enacted.
Sec. II.
That the act of the Company incorporated by, and organized under the Act herein
first above mentioned, in changing their name from the Dalton and Gadsden Rail
Road Company, to that of the Dalton & Jacksonville Railroad Company under
authority of the fourteenth section of the above mentioned Act, " approved Dec'r
19th. 1859"; and all lawful acts of said company, performed^ under the last
mentioned, as well as the first mentioned name and title, be, and the same are
hereby ratified and confirmed ; and all Dalton and Jacksonville Railroad
Company. Laws and parts of laws applicable to said company, under either of
said names and titles," shall be applicable to said company, under its present
title of the Dalton and Jacksonville Rail Road company.
Sec. III.
That, whereas, the business and operations of said company have been interfered
with, and prevented, by events of the late war, in which the country has been
involved, among other things, rendering it impracticable for the Stockholders to
assemble to elect their Directors, at the usual periods, the said company shall
have the power and right to assemble in Convention, at such time and place as
the existing Board of Directors, or a majority of persons acting as Directors
under previous election, for want of successors, shall appoint and designate ;
and that the Stockholders of said company, may have notice when and where to
assemble, the said Board of Directors, or a majority of the persons acting as
Directors as aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered
to give notice, by advertisement, for three consecutive weeks, in such newspaper
or papers, as they may deem proper, of the time and place to be appointed for
the assembling of said Stockholders, to elect a new Board of Directors of said
company; and for the transaction of such other lawful business as said
Stockholders in Convention may deem proper ; and the Directors who may then be
elected, and all subsequent Boards of Directors to be elected, and the
President, when elected as authorized, shall hold their respective offices for
one year, from the time of election, or for a longer, or shorter period, as the
case may be, until the election of their successors.
Sec. IV.
That it shall be lawful for the Stockholder of said company, when assembled in
Convention, as provided in the last preceding section of this Act, and they
shall have power to examine and review all the acts of their President and
Directors, or of those acting as such, since the period of the last preceding
election of Directors by said Stockholders ; and all acts of the said President
and Directors, or persons acting as such, within the period specified, touching
the business and affairs of said Company, and not contrary to law, which shall
be ratified and approved by said •Stockholders in Convention, shall be valid and
binding on said company, as acts of the same.
Sec. V.
That the said Dalton and Jacksonville Rail Road Company shall have power, by
their Stockholders acting in Convention, or by their Board of Directors, to
increase the capital stock of said company to such an amount as may be deemed
proper, not exceeding the cost of constructing and equipping their said Road;
and may also fix the par value of the shares of stock at one hundred dollars
each, or any less sum ; and said Board of Directors shall have power to receive
additional subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, for such amounts,
(not exceeding the limits above mentioned.) and on such terms and conditions, as
they may agree and designate.
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An act for relief of Moses G Collins, of Whitfield County. Whereas Moses G
Collins, of the County of Whitfield, intermarried, pending the war with Caroline
Carmile, under the rumor of a reliable character, that the husband of the said
Caroline, to whom she had been previously married, was killed at the battle of
New Hope Church, proved not to be the case. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Georgia that the said Moses G Collins, of the County of Whitfield,
is hereby relieved from all pains and penalties under existing laws of this
state, in consequence of said marriage. Approved 9 March 1866
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An act for the relief of Dickinson Taliaferro Jr of the County of Whitfield.
Whereas in the later part of the year 1864, a lieutenant and private soldier of
the late Confederate Army, connected with General Weaver’s Cavalry who had been
captured by the Federal Troops, and having made their escape came upon the house
of Dickerson Taliaferro Sr; and as a means of aiding said soldiers to return to
their command Dickerson Taliaferro Jr, advised said soldiers to get two horses
which were secreted nearby, which was done and said soldiers returned to their
commands. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Georgia, That said Dickerson
Taliaferro Jr of the County of Whitfield, is hereby relieved from all pains and
penalties under existing laws for discovering said horses to said soldiers, and
for participating in getting said horses for said soldiers. Approved 21 March
1866.
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