SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Alexander R. Lawton, John Stoddard, James P. Screven, William Duncan, Charles F. Mills, John C. Poythress and John Dowse, and their associates, the subscribers to said stock, their successors and assigns, shall be a body corporate, with perpetual succession, with all the rights, privileges and duties conferred and imposed by said act of incorporation and the amendments thereto.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall have power to call in such instalments on the capital stock subscribed as they may think proper: Provided, thirty days previous notice of such call be published in one or more of the gazettes of Savannah and Augusta; and the failure of any stockholders to pay any instalment so called in, shall operate as a forfeiture of the share or shares on which said failure to pay shall have been incurred; which share or shares so forfeited, and all the payments thereon before made, shall accrue to the benefit of said corporation, to be disposed of as the Directors shall order.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a majority of the Directors shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, of whom the President shall always be one, except in case of sickness or necessary absence, in which case his seat shall be filled by one of the Directors present.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That in every election by the stockholders, and whenever a vote is taken, the following shall be the rule of voting for every share, one vote: Provided, no one stockholder shall be entitled to more than one hundred votes.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the said company be authorized to contract and agree with the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company as to the union of the tract of said Railroad with that of the Georgia Railroad.

SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That the rates of freight and passage money shall be the same, ascending as descending the road of said company.

SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall be and they are hereby authorized to contract with the City Council of Augusta and the Trustees of the Academy of Richmond county for a site for a depot in the city of Augusta, and the right of way to it, upon such terms and stipulations as may be agreed on.

Approved, January 29, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Macon and Western Railroad Company, and the South Western Railroad Company, to unite their respective railroads in one common depot at or near the city of Macon, and to grant to the said companies a quantity of land for the said purpose on the public reserve east of the city of Macon, with the right of way through the said public reserve to the said depot for their respective tracks.

WHEREAS there has been expended in the State by incorporated companies, and from the State Treasury, very large sums of money for the purpose of opening and constructing railroads from the seaboard to the western limits of the State; and whereas, in order that the State and the citizens thereof should derive the full benefit intended by the line of railroads so constructed, it is expedient that the transportation of freight and passengers over said line should be as free from interruption and trans-shipment as possible:

SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Macon and Western Railroad Company, and the SouthWestern Railroad Company, to unite their respective railroads in one common depot at or near the city of Macon, so that the cars of the respective roads may pass from one road to another uninterruptedly.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That in case a suitable site for said common depot, with a sufficient quantity of land, cannot be obtained by said companies within the corporate limits of the said city of Macon on terms reasonable and satisfactory both to the corporate authorities of the said city of Macon and the said Railroad Companies, or in case the consent of the corporation of the said city of Macon cannot be obtained for the said roads to be united within said corporate limits, the said companies may propose to the said corporate authorities to have the value of land necessary for a depot and the right of way to it, as also to damages to the vested rights thereby sustained ascertained and assessed against said companies respectively, according to the provisions of their respective charters in relation to disputes with the owners of lands, and if the said corporate authorities shall refuse to accede to said proposal, then a sufficient quantity of said land not exceeding thirty acres, to be paid for at a fair price, to be assessed by commissioners appointed by the Governor for that purpose, is hereby granted for the use of said companies, and for the

above mentioned purpose, on the lands known as the public reserve lying eastwardly of and adjoining the corporate limits of the said city of Macon, and that the said companies shall, after the passage of this act, have the right and power to enter upon the said public reserve, and establish and locate the site of their common depot in the most convenient part of the said reserve, and so lay out and mark such tract as may be necessary for said purpose, not exceeding thirty acres, and when such tract of land shall have been so laid out and located, a plat thereof shall be deposited in the office of the Surveyor General, and the title to the said tract so located shall be thereafter vested in said companies, jointly for the purpose of a depot, and for no other purpose whatsoever, and whenever said tract of land shall cease to be used for the purpose of a depot, it shall then revert to and become again the property of the State of Georgia, and parcel of the aforesaid reserve.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the said Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia to build, erect, construct, keep and enjoy as part and parcel of the Central Railroad, a railroad from any elegible or suitable point in and connected with the said Central Railroad to the said common depot, whenever the same may be located; and also for the said the Macon and Western Railroad Company to build, erect, construct, keep and enjoy as part and parcel of the Macon and Western Railroad, a railroad from any eligible or suitable point and connected with the Macon and Western Railroad to the said common depot whenever the same may be located; and also for the said the South Western Railroad Company to construct and extend its railroad to the said common depot whenever the same may be located ; and also for the said companies respectively to build all the necessary works to carry the establishment of said common depot into effect, paying to owners of property through which they may pass, for whatever damages they may do to their premises, as provided for by the respective charters of the aforesaid companies; and the said companies, and each of them, shall have power, and the same is hereby granted, to pass through the public reserve with their respective railroads, in order to reach the said common depot, whether the said common depot shall be established on the said public reserve, or within the corporate limits of the city of Macon, and shall be entitled to use land of sufficient width for their tracks and roads through said reserve for that purpose.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 11, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate the Talbotton Branch Railroad
Company, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for the purpose of constructing a railroad communication from some point on the South Western Railroad at or near Fort Valley in the county of Houston, to Talbotton, or some other point in the county of Talbot, with the privilege of connecting with the railroad now being constructed from the city of Columbus, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the respective companies, George W. Persons, Samuel Rutherford, Grief Cheives, Jonathan Ross, John S. Lee, Peter Corbin, Hiram B. Troutman, D. Wm. Drane, William Searcey, Wm. F. Mitchell, E. H. Worrell, Wm. Stallings, Elijah Wells, Jesse Carter, John W. G. Smith, David Shelton, Gideon Newsom, Benjamin F. Newsom, Wm. Robinson, George W. Towns, and such other individuals as may be associated with them, and their assigns, shall hereafter be a body corporate by the name and style of the Talbotton Branch Railroad Company, with power and authority to create a capital stock not exceeding one million of dollars, to be divided into shares of the value of one hundred dollars each, to be subscribed for and transferred, called in and paid, under such terms, conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed by said company.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Talbotton Branch Railroad Company shall be authorized to have and exercise all the powers, privileges, rights, and immunities, and be subject to all the limitations and restrictions in the building and constructing said road, as are prescribed for the South Western Railroad Company by the act of December the 27th, 1845.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Talbotton Branch Railroad Company be authorized to substitute a plank road in lieu of the railway contemplated in this act.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, February 21, 1850.

AN ACT to amend an act to revive and amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Milledgeville Railroad Company, assented to 26th December, 1837.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly mes, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the corporation created by said act and the act of which it is amendatory, shall have full power and authority according to the limitations and restrictions in said acts mentioned, to construct their said railroads from the city of Milledgeville to the city of Macon, or to such point in the vicinity thereof as may be deemed most eligible by said company for public

convenience.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Directors of said company shall be elected annually, at such times as the said corporation shall by its by-laws direct and appoint, all the stockholders being equally elegible; and in case of failure to elect at the time so appointed, the corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but the Directors already elected shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified according to the provisions of said act.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the third, fourth and fifth sections of the act of which this is amendatory, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 8, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate the Mulberry Grove Manufacturing Company in the county of Harris, and for other purposes therein mentioned; also in relation to the Ruckersville Banking Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly convened, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Charles Wighorn, Hiram W. Brooks, Solun W. Mitchell, Elizabeth Mitchell and all other persons that may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby created a body politic, by the name and style of the Mulberry Grove Manufacturing Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and are hereby made capable in law to have, hold and purchase, lands, tenements, goods and chattels, and the same to alien, sell and convey, to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued in any Court of Record in this State, to make, have and use a common seal and the same to alter at pleasure, and to make such by-laws as they may deem necessary, not contrary to the laws and Constitution of this State, and shall appoint all such officers and agents to transact the business of said company, and discharge the same at pleasure.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That said company are hereby empowered to build a dam across the Mulberry