Excerpt from Proceedings of the General Meeting of Stockholders of the Western North Carolina Rail Road Company, at Salisbury August 30, 1855: With the Charter and by-Laws of the Company Resolved, That the terminus of the first section of the Tes tern North Carolina Rail Road should be fixed by the Board of Directors at the town of Morganton, in Burke County, and that the Directors who may be chosen at this meeting are hereby instructed to locate that terminus of said section at the point designated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Western North Carolina Rail Road Company: Held in Salisbury, August 25-26, 1859 Resolved, That the amendments proposed to the Charter of our Com pany, as embodied in an act of the General Assembly, passed at the late Session of 1858 entitled An act to amend an act entitled an act. To incorporate the Western North Carolina Rail Road Company, passed at the session 1854 and also an act amendatory thereof, passed at the session of 1856 be, and the same are hereby, accepted. Resolved, That the Board of Directors notify the Board of Internal Improvements of the acceptance by this Company of said amendments, and that the Board of Internal Improvements be requested to make immediate provision for paying the expenses of the surveys directed by said act out of the Public Treasury, as part of the already appropriated by the State, to the end that a corps of Engineers may be organised and the surveys commenced at the earliest practicable moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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