1891 public laws – Ch.537 Sec.2
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CHAPTER 537, An act to incorporate the Edgecombe and Granville Railroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
The said company is hereby authorized to construct, equip and operate a railroad of any gauge it may choose, from some point on the Hamilton Railroad and Lumber Company track, thence across the Norfolk and Carolina Railroad track, about.___—miles from Tarboro, where the lumber road of said Hitch now crosses, thence to some point on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad track between Battleboro and Enfield, crossing the same, thence to some point on the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad track between Kittrell and Warren Plains, and also to construct, equip and operate lateral branches to said railroad not exceeding twenty miles in length on any branch, with the usual power to cross any other railroad track, over, under or at grade.