1891 public laws – Ch.537 Sec.1
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CHAPTER 537, An act to incorporate the Edgecombe and Granville Railroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That Frank Hitch, S. 8 Nash, H. R. Nash, Jr., David Ls Emerick, T. H. Pritchard, George Howard, Jr., Ed. V. Zoeller, or any three of them, and such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of Edgecombe and Granville Railroad Company, under which name it shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and enjoy all the rights, privileges and advantages of other like corporations under existing laws besides those hereinafter enumerated.