1889 public laws – Ch.557 Sec.4
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CHAPTER 557 An act to amend chapter three hundred and sixty-five of the bah of eighteen hundred and eighty #NAME? WHEREAS, The town of Murfreesboro and Murfreesboro township, in the county of Hertford, were authorized and empowered by the laws of 1887, chapter three hundred and sixty-five, to subscribe to the capital stock of the Murfreesboro Railroad Company for the purpose of building and constructing or aiding in building and constructing said railroad from said town to some point on the Roanoke and Tar River Railroad; and whereas, it has been made to appear that, in accordance with the provisions of said chapter, said Murfreesboro township, by a majority of its qualified voters, has voted a subscrip- tion of twenty-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of said rail- road company for the said purpose; and whereas further, it has been made to appear that a railroad from said town of Murfreesboro to some point on the line of the Norfolk and Carolina Railroad, in said Hertford county, would be more advantageous to said township; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the construction of the railroad provided for in said chapter and in this act shall be commenced within two years from the ratification of this act.