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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 879

Court at its next session if no sufficient cause to
the contrary be shown, and when confirmed shall
be recorded by said clerk, but if set aside the same
Court shall direct another inquisition to take place
in the manner before directed, whose decision shall
be returned as before directed, and such valuation
when paid or tendered to the owner or owners of
said property or his, her or their legal representa-
tives shall entitle the said Company to the estate
and interest in the same thus valued as fully as if
it had been conveyed by the owner or owners of
the same, and the said valuation if not received
when tendered may at any time thereafter be re-
ceived from the said Company by the said owner
or owners, his, her or their legal representatives;
provided, that no private property shall be taken
by said Company for the use of said Railroad with-
out just compensation as agreed upon by the par-
ties or awarded by the jurors being first paid or
tendered to the party entitled to such compensa-
tion.

Direct another
inquisition.

Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That on the comple-
tion of the said Railroad or any Section thereof it
shall and may be lawful for the said Company to
demand and receive for tolls and transportation of
all goods, produce, merchandise or property of
any kind whatever at the rate of not exceeding ten
cents per ton per mile, and for the transportation
of passengers not exceeding six cents per mile for
each passenger.

Demand and
receive tolls.

Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That if any person
or persons shall wilfully break, injure or destroy
the Railroad or any part thereof to be erected by
the said Company in pursuance of this Act, or shall
in any manner obstruct the free passage along the
said Railroad he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay
to the said Company three times tiie actual dam-
ages so sustained to be sued for and recovered with
cost of suit before any Justice of the Peace, or in
any Court having cognizance thereof by action of
debt or in the case in the name and for the use of
the said Company.

Damages for
injurying.

Sec. 16. And be it enacted, That this Company
shall have power to borrow.

Sec. 17. And be, it enacted, That the President
and Directors of the said Company shall have full

Power to
borrow.

 

 

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