- Title
- Private laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly [1869-1870]
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- Date
- 1869 - 1870
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Private laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly [1869-1870]
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58
Corporators.
lS69-’70. — Charter 81.
CHAPTER XXXI.
AN
ЛОТ
TO INCORPORATE THE POKTIS GOLD MINE ANI) SANDY
CREEK WATER COMPANY IN FltANKLIN COUNTY.
Section 1. The General Assembly of North. Carolina do
enact , That William E. Stnrgess, John Wardcll, of the
city of Newark in the state of New Jersey, and Thomas
R. Thomas, Joseph J. Davis and Charles II. Thomas, of
Franklin county, North Carolina, and their associates, suc¬
cessors and assigns, arc hereby created and constituted a
body politic and corporate by the name and style and title
of the Portis Gold Mines and Sandy Creek Water Com¬
pany, for the purpose of conducting water from Sandy
creek to the Portis Gold Mine, and to such other mining
properties as in their discretion shall be advisable or desira¬
ble on the line of their ditch or in convenient distance or
adjacent thereto; that three commissioners shall be 'ap¬
pointed, one by the landowners and one bv the corpora¬
tors over whose land the ditch will run or a majority of
said landowners, and the third shall
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selected by the two
commissioners whose appointment is herein provided for,
and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to assess
the damage to the several tracts of land growing out of
the privileges herein granted, to bo paid in cash before
commencing the said ditch after the survey is made, and
also tc fix and establish an annual rent to be paid by the
said company for the term of years herein expressed, to be
paid to the present landowneis, their heirs, devisees or
assignees, on a day in each and every year to be fixed by said
commissioners ; and the rent so long as the corporation shall
use the said ditch shall be a debt against the company and
recoverable if not punctually paid before any magistrate
in the township on the citation of any landowner whose
annual rent may not have been paid as herein provided for ;
and the corporation hereby created, after having its survey
made and paying the damages]as herein provided for, shall
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