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to make it incumbent on said company to keep in repair the
portion of any road wkich they may have changed as afore-said.
Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, That this act shall
be in force from and after the ratification thereof, and shall
be regarded as a public act, and be continued in force for
thirty years.
[Ratified 28th January, 1851.]
Commis-fiioncrs.
Powers.
CHAPTER CXLIII.
AN ACT to incorporate the Salisbury and Taylorsville
Plank Road Company.
Sec. 1. Bp.it enacted by the General ^3ssemhl(jof'^the State of
North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, That Wm. Murphy, D. A. Davis, Joel H. Jenkins^
Mathia? Boger, Michael Brown, John J. Shaver, Joseph F.
Chambers, Thomas H. McRorie, Joseph W. Stockston, Sam-uel
Bell, Joseph F. Alexander, Quincy Sharp, Thomas A. Al-ison,
John Davidson, William G. James, Thomas S. Boyd,
Alfred Carson, A. C. Mcintosh, Azel Shafp, Robert C. Wil-son,
E. C. Harrington, William Lenore, C. W. Clark, Jamea
Harper, John Hays, Calvin Jones, Ezra Shell, Samuel F.
Patterson, together with such persons as now are, or
may hereafter be associated with them, their successoi'S or
assigns, be, and they are hereby created a corporation and
body politic, by the name and style of " The Salisbury
and Taylorsville Plank Road Company;" and, by that name
and style, may acquiie and hold, possess and transfer such real,