Public Laws of the State of North-Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at Its Session of ...Holden & Wilson, 1855 |
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16th day ACT TO INCORPORATE aforesaid agent amount annual appoint Assembly bank board of directors body corporate body politic bonds by-laws capital stock cents certificate chairman Chap clerk commissioners common seal constable county court county of Wilson coupon bonds court of pleas day of February deem direct ditto dividends duty election entry exceeding fall distribution Fayetteville feme covert five further enacted hereafter hereby authorized hereby enacted hundred dollars impleaded issue John justice land liable magistrate of police majority manner meeting name and style necessary North-Carolina owner or owners paid pany payable payment peace person or persons prescribed president and directors Provided proxy public treasurer purchase purpose quarter sessions Railroad Company Raleigh Ratified the 16th regulations river sheriff sioners spring distribution stockholders subscribed successors sued superior court thereof tion toll town trustees Turnpike vacancy vote W. W. Holden Western Turnpike Wilmington
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Page 88 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 10 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever, and also to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at their pleasure; and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution such...
Page 122 - ... be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day, to hold an election for...
Page 276 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts, previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.
Page 12 - ... his, her or their private or natural capacity or capacities, and shall be assignable and negotiable in like manner as if they were so issued by such private person or persons; that is to say, those which shall be payable to any person or persons...
Page 92 - ... be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities...
Page 79 - ... and the sum to be paid by each member shall always be in proportion to the original amount of his deposit note...
Page 116 - ... and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute and defend in any court of law...
Page 35 - And, also, to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure ; and, also, to ordain, establish, and put in execution...
Page 92 - Each of said notes shall be payable, in part or in whole, at any time when the directors shall deem the same requisite for the payment of losses by fire or inland navigation, and such incidental expenses as may be necessary for transacting the business of said company.