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RICHMOND AND '
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EXTENSION COMPANY,
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State of Mississippi.
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Francis & Loutrel, Stationers and Printers,
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1882.
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IN THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
OF
The.Richmond & Danville Extension Co,
Office of Secretary of State, )
Jackson, Mississippi. \
I, Henry C. Myers, Secretary of State, do certify the Act
hereto attached entitled "An Act to Incorporate The Richmond
and Danville Extension Company of New Jersey and enlarge its
powers," is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in
this office.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State
of Mississippi hereunto affixed, this sixth day of
March, 1882.
f--—t HENRY C. MYERS,
5 SEAL. J
Secretary of State.
AN ACT:
to incorporate " the richmond and danville extension
company " of new jersey, and to enlarge
its powers.
'W&iíltX6'$í,3, under and by virtue of an act of the Legislature
of the State of New Jersey, entitled an act concerning corporations,
approved April -jth, 1875, and the acts amendatory thereof and
supplementary thereto. The Richmond and Danville Extension
Company, was heretofore duly incorporated for the objects speci¬
fied in its certificate of organization filed in the office of the
Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, which certificate
is in the language following, that is to say; "'Certificate of the
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organization of The Richmond and Danville Extension Com¬
pany.' This is to certify that William P. Clyde, George W.
Perkins, Thomas M. Logan, George Zabriskie and Henry W.
Perkins, do hereby associate ourselves into a company, under and
by virtue of the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the
State of New Jersey, entitled "An act concerning corporations,"
approved April 7th, 1875, and the acts amendatory thereof and
supplementary to the same for the purpose hereinafter mentioned,
and to that end we do by this certificate set forth.
First.—The name of the said company shall be 'The'Rich¬
mond and Danville Extension Company.'
Secotid.—That the places in this State where the business of
such company is to be conducted are all of the Counties of this
State. The principal part of the business of said company within
this State is to be transacted at the City of Newark, in the County
of Essex. The business of said company is also to be conducted
outside the State of New Jersey and within the following States,
District, Territories and Republic: The States of New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia,' the
States of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan¬
sas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, California,
and the Territories of Utah, Arizona, New Nexico, the Indian
Territory, and Republic of Mexico. The objects for which the
company is formed are to construct, improve and equip railroads,
turnpikes and other roads, canals, ferries and all other works for
the transportation of persons and property ; whether by land or
by water, or partly by land and partly by water, and lines of tele¬
graph, in connection therewith ; also bridges, tunnels, docks, piers
and all other structures or things appropriate to any of the afore¬
said objects; also to construct, improve, furnish and equip
hotels and restaurants, grain and other elevators, compresses,
stock-yards, slaughter-houses, and work-shops, in connection with
such railroads and other transportation lines, and works ; also to
construct, improve, repair, purchase, sell, lease and hire locomotive
or other engines, cars and rolling stock of all descriptions, boats,
stages, machinery and all other means or instruments of transpor¬
tation on land and water for transportation of persons and property
as aforesaid ; also to erect storehouses, mills and factories on or
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in the vicinity of the said lines of transportation, and to hold,
possess, purchase, lease, sell and convey such real and personal
estate and property as the purpose aforesaid of the company may
require, and to mortgage the same and issue bonds to be secured
by a mortgage or mortgages upon the property and franchises of
the company. The portion of the business of said company
which is to be carried on out of this State in the States, District,
Territories and Republic hereinbefore mentioned is the construct¬
ion, equipment and improvement of property located outside of
this State which will be carried on in the place where such property
is located. It is not intended that the said company shall possess
the right of taking and condemning lands by reason of its organ¬
ization under this certificate.
Third.—The total amount of the capital stock of said com¬
pany is five millions of dollars ; the number of shares into which
the same is divided is fifty thousand, the par value of each share
is one hundred dollars, and the amount with which the said com¬
pany will commence business is five thousand dollars. The num¬
ber of shares into which the same is divided is fifty, and the par
value of each share is one hundred dollars.
Fourth.—The names and residences of the stockholders, and
the number of shares held by each are as follows : William P.
Clyde, New York City, N. Y., one share ; George W. Perkins, New
York City. N. Y., forty-six shares ; Thomas M. Logan, Richmond,
Virginia, one share; George Zabriskie, Jersey City, N. J., one
share ; Henry W. Perkins, New York City, N. Y., one share.
Fifth.—The period at which such company shall commence is
the 28th day of May, 1881, and the period at which it shall termi¬
nate is the twenty-seventh day of May, 1931, in witness whereof
we have hereunto set our hands and seals this the twenty-eighth
day of May, 1881.
Signed, William P. Clyde, [l.s.]
George W. Perkins, [l.s.]
T. M. Logan, [l.s.]
G. Zabriskie, [t-s]
H. W. Perkins, [l.s.]
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
J. A. ROMEYN."
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"State of New Jersey, )
County of Hudson. J
Be it remembered that on this twenty-eighth day of May,
eighteen hundred and eighty one, personally appeared before me,
James A Romeyn, a master of the Court of Chancery of the State
of New Jersey, William P. Clyde, George W. Perkins, Thomas
M. Logan, George Zabriskie and Henry W. Perkins, who I am
satisfied are the persons named in and who executed the foregoing
certificate, and I, having first made known to them the contents
thereof, they did each acknowledge that they signed, sealed and
delivered the same as their voluntary act and deed.
Signed, J. A. ROMEYN,
Master in Chancery of New Jersey.
Recorded in. Book of Incorporated Companies, Hudson
County, page 33, &c." ,
A part of the business of the said corpor¬
ation is intended to be carried on in this State, and in sundry
states districts and territories of the United States other than the
State of New Jersey and in the Republic of Mexico, and it is
desired to give the said corporation corporate existence in this
State for purposes and with powers identical with those possessed
by it under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New Jersey,
and for additional purposes, and with additional powers. Now
therefore ; Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Mississippi ;
Section i. That The Richmond and Danville Extension
Company be and the same is hereby incorporated and constituted
a body politic and corporate in and of the State of Mississippi,
with all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises conferred
upon and possessed by it under and by virtue of the before recited
Certificate of Organization, and under and by virtue of the laws
of the State of New Jersey, so far as the same are not inconsistent
with the constitution and laws of the State of Mississippi.
Section 2. Be it further enacted : That the Capital Stock of
said company may be increased from time to time to such amount,
not exceeding ten million dollars, and mäy be subscribed for
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under such regulations and issued at such price as the Board of
Directors may determine. Such subscriptions may be made pay¬
able in the stock, bonds, or other property real or personal, of any
corporation or individual, the value of such stock, bonds or other
property real or personal to be agreed upon with the subscriber
at the time of the subscription.
Section 3. Be it further enacted : That the said company
is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, improve and
equip railroads, turnpikes and other roads, canals, ferries and all
other works, for the transportation of person and property, whether
by land or by water, or partly by land and partly by water, and
lines of telegraph in connection therewith ; also bridges, tunnels,
docks, piers, wharves, basins, ware-houses, elevators, cotton-
compresses, stock-yards, slaughter houses and work-shops ; also
to construct, improve, repair, purchase, sell, lease and hire loco¬
motives, or other engines, cars and rolling-stock of all descriptions,
steam-ships, vessels, boats, stages, machinery and all other means
or instruments of and for the transportation of persons and
property on land or water; also to erect and operate storehouses,
mills, furnaces and factories'; also to purchase or take by gift, grant
or otherwise, hold, improve and sell, mineral and other lands and
rights and personal property ; also to conduct the business usually
transacted by warehousemen, wharfingers, lightermen, coal dealers,
cotton compressors and receivers and forwarders of freights ; and
to colonize and settle immigrants.
Section 4. Be it further enacted: That for convenience of
access to such improvements, the said Company shall also have
authority to construct, equip and operate one or more railroads,
with all necessary sidings and branches from any of said structures
to such point or points of convenient connection with any lines of
railroad or canal now existing or to be hereafter constructed or
with water courses as the said Company shall determine, and for
that purpose the said Company, may within the limits of the State
of Mississippi, acquire title to a continuous line of one hundred
feet in width of land, and such additional lands as may be neces¬
sary for the use of said roads and tracks and for the buildings and
and works of said Company, on proceedings in the name of said
Company in the manner prescribed in an Act entitled, " An Act
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to Incorporate The Georgia Pacific Railway Company," and to
define and enlarge its powers in the State of Mississippi, approved
February 15 th, 1882.
Section 5. Be' it further enacted: That the said Company
shall have power to unite, consolidate, or connect the railroads
owned, operated or controlled by it with any line of railroad, con¬
structed or which may be constructed, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between it and such other railroad company ; and
for this purpose power is hereby granted to it, and to any railroad
company incorporated by this state to make and carry out such
contracts by lease, purchase or otherwise, as will facilitate, and
consummate such connection or consolidation.
Section 6. Be it further enacted : That any railroad,
steamship, or navigation company with which the said. The
Richmond and Danville Extension Company may connect, is
hereby authorized to acquire by subscription, purchase or other¬
wise, any portion of the Capital Stock of said Company ; and said
Company is authorized to acquire in like manner any portion of
the capital stock of any such railroad, steamship or navigation
company, and stock so acquired shall have the same privileges
and powers and be subject to the same conditions and regulations
as the stock held by other stock-holders therein.
Section 7. Be it further enacted : That the said Company
is hereby authorized to acquire by subscription, purchase or
otherwise, or to guarantee any portion of the capital stock or
bonds of any company, organized for or engaged in the building,
construction or operation of any line of railroad in this state or in
any other state, district, or territory of the United States or in the
Republic of Mexico.
Section 8. Be it further enacted : That the said Company
is also authorized from time to time to borrow such sums of money
as may be necessary for its. purposes and for such loans to issue its
bonds bearing interest not exceeding eight per cent, per annum ;
to sell, exchange, and hypothecate said bonds on such terms as it
may deem advisable ; and to secure the said bonds and interest
thereon by deed of trust or mortgage conveying its works, prop¬
erty, and franchises, in whole or in part ; provided that no mortgage
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or deed of trust upon the works, property and franchises of the
said Company shall have preference over any judgment in favor
of a resident of this state for injuries to persons or property by
said Company, its employees or agents.
Section 9. Be it further enacted : That the powers herein
granted to the said The Richmond and Danville Extension Com¬
pany are hereby extended to the said Company in any state, dis¬
trict or territory, of the United States and in the Republic of
Mexico.
Section 10. Be it further enacted : That the Officers and
Directors of said Company shall be such as may be provided in
the by-laws of said Company and any vacancy in said officers or
directors shall be filled from time to time in the manner prescribed
in said by-laws. And the said Company may establish offices and
hold meetings of stockholders or directors in any state, district or
territory of the United States or in the Republic of Mexico, as
may be from time to time prescribed in its by-laws, and the said
Company may make such other by-laws and regulations, not in¬
consistent with the laws and constitution of the State of Missis¬
sippi, as it may deem necessary and proper from time to time.
, Section ii. Be it further enacted: That this Act take
effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, March 4th, 1882.