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CHAPTER

CXCVI.

AN ACT ΤΟ INCORPORATE THE PHOENIX TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY.

Corporators.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That George W. Swepson, L. G. Estes, Jos. S. Cannon, Ed. L. Hayes, Jr., Thos. D. Hogg, S. L. Fremont, John C. Winder, Plato Durham, William Barrow, W. A. Moore, of Chowan, their associates and successors, are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the Phonix Transportation Company, and as such may have all the Rights and privi- rights and privileges of incorporated companies, under the Constitution and laws of this State, for the purpose of conducting the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise, or other things, upon the Rail Roads, Canals, Rivers, or common roads within the State, or elsewhere, and shall have a corporate existence for fifty years.

leges.

Capital stock.

Directors and of ficers.

By-laws.

SEC. 2. The capital stock shall be five hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, but may be increased to any amount desired by a majority of the stockholders (each share having one vote) not exceeding two millions of dollars.

SEC. 8. This corporation may have a Board of Directors, a President, and such officers and agents as shall be prescribed by the by-laws, that the corporators are hereby empowered to make for the regulation and general management of the business of quick and safe transportation of freight.

This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 12th day of April, A. D. 1869.

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AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JAMES H. DUNCAN, LATE SHERIFF
OF MCDOWELL COUNTY.

rears of taxes.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do May collect ar enact, That James II. Duncan, late Sheriff of McDowell County, be allowed until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy, to collect arrears of taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; Provided however, That no person shall be compelled to pay said taxes who will make oath that he has paid said taxes and has lost his receipt.

SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 12th day of April, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER CXCVIII.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING JAMES I. MOORE, SHERIFF OF GRAN-
VILLE COUNTY, AND OTHERS, ΤΟ COLLECT ARREARAGES OF

TAXES.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Granville County. enact, That James I. Moore, Sheriff of Granville County,

be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the arrearages of taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

SEC. 2. That E. A. Gupton, Sheriff of Franklin County, Franklin County. be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the arrearages of taxes for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Haywood County.

Alamance County.

SEC. 3. That Hiram Rogers, late tax collector of Haywood County, be and he is hereby authorized and empow ered to collect arrearages of taxes for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

SEC. 4. That W. J. Murray, late Sheriff of Alamance, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect arrearages of taxes for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty eight.

SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 12th day of April, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER CXCIX.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CAPE FEAR AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION.

Corporators.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Sewell L. Fremont of Wilmington, Alfred Dockery of Richmond, Ed. K. Proctor of Robeson, Thos. G. Sellars of Brunswick, Sol. S. Satchwell of New Hanover, C. T. Murphy of Sampson, Owen R. Keenan of Duplin, E. W. Fonville of Onslow, T. S. Memory of Columbus, F. W. Foster, T. D. McDowell and John Edwards of Bladen, James C. Mann, George Z. French, L. G. Estes, Henry Nutt, H. H. Robinson, G. W. Williams, Jas. S. Cannon, S. D. Wallace, J. W. Atkinson, John E. Lippitt, and Roger Moore, of Wilmington, or any ten of thein, and their associates and successors now associated, organized and known as the Cape Fear Agricultural Association, having for its object the promotion of agriculture, commerce and mechanic arts in that section of the country of which Wilmington is

Body politic.

the commercial centre, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Corporate name. Cape Fear Agricultural Association, and by that name may

leges.

sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, may purchase,, Powers and priviacquire, hold and transfer real and personal estate, may use and enforce their present constitution and by-laws, may alter or amend the same as they may deem necessary and proper from time to time for governing the affairs of the corporation, and may do all other acts and things which in law a body politic and corporate may of right do, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State.

Hanover may aid.

SEC. 2. That the County of New Hanover be and is County of New hereby authorized and empowered to aid said corporation by donating or selling the said corporation lands suitable for a fair ground on such terms as the Commissioners of said County may deem proper.

ton may aid.

SEC. 3. That the City of Wilmington is hereby authorized City of Wilmingand empowered to aid the said corporation to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars by donation or loan, by endorsing the bonds of the corporation; Provided however, Proviso. That no such donation, loan or endorsement shall be made until the question of making the same shall have been determined affirmatively by a majority of the legal voters of the said City, at an election to be held for that purpose, under such regulations as the Mayor and Aldermen of said City shall prescribe.

SEC. 4. That this act is hereby declared a public act, and shall be in force from and after its ratification, and shall remain in force for the period of ninety years.

Ratified the 12th day of April, A. D. 1869.

Act a public act.

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Corporators.

Capital stock.

AN ACT TO CHARTER THE EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Thomas S. Lutterloh, and his associates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic, to navigate the Cape Fear River and its tributary rivers, carrying freights and passengers under the name and style of the Express Steamboat Company, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars, which may be increased to fifty thousand dollars, with privilege to buy, build and own steamboats and flats, and the necessary lands, wharves and warehouses at Fayetteville and Wilmington, for the convevient prosecution of the business.

SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 12th day of April, A. D. 1869.

CHAPTER CCI.

Father may appoint.

AN ACT CONCERNING GUARDIAN AND WARD.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. Father may appoint guardian by deed or will:

Any father, though he be a minor, may, by deed executed in his life time or by his last will and testament in writing, dispose of the custody and tuition of any of his infant chil dren, being unmarried and whether born at his death or in ventre sa mere, for such time as the children may remain under twenty-one years of age, or for any less time.

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