acknowledge or prove the same before the Clerk of the Superior Court of any County in the State, who shall have full power to take the private examination of married. women as provided by law. SEC. 2. That any Clerk before whom such deed, power or instrument is acknowledged or proved, or the private examination of married women taken in relation thereto, shall certify the fact upon said deed, power of attorney or instrument; and the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County wherein the land lies, upon the exhibition of such certificate to him, shall adjudge the said deed or other instrument to be duly acknowledged and proved in the same manner as if made or taken before him. Clerk shall certify upon deed. SEC. 3. That all laws, or clauses of laws, conflicting with Repealing clanse. the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after the SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Corporators. enact, That for the purpose of constructing a Rail Road of one or more tracks from some point on the North Carolina Rail Road at or near Greensboro', in the County of Guilford, to some point on the southern boundary of the State, in the Counties of Richmond or Anson, to be hereafter determined on, as near an air line as the nature of the route will permit, George W. Welker, David Hodgin, Thos. B. Keogh, Louis Zimmer, B. B. Bulla, Jehu H. Davis, Hon. O. H. Dockery, Hon. Henry J. Menninger, Dr. P. T. Beeman, and their associates, successors and assigns, are constituted a Company, and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the Central North Carolina Rail Road Company, with a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege to increase the same to five Corporate rights, millions, which shall have a corporate existence as a body politic for the space of ninety-nine years, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in every Court in the State of North Carolina, and may have and use a common seal, and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, leasing and conveying estate, real, personal and mixed, and acquiring the same by gift or devise, so far as may be necessary for the purposes herein contemplated, and the said Company may enjoy all the rights and immunities which other corporate bodies may lawfully exercise, and may make all necessary by-laws and regulations for its government not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of North Carolina and of the United States. Capital stock. Subscription to stock. SEC. 2. That the capital stock of said Company be created by subscriptions on the part of individuals, municipal and other corporations in shares of the value of one hundred dollars each, which may be made in lands, timber, work or money, as may be stipulated. SEC. 3. That books of subscription to the capital stock of said Company may be opened by the following Commissioners, to-wit: At Greensboro', by Geo. W. Welker, David Hodgin, Thos. B. Keogh, Louis Zimmer; in Asheboro', by B. B. Bulla; in Troy, by Jehu H. Davis; in Rockingham, by O. H. Dockery; at Raleigh, by Henry J. Menninger; in Wadesboro', by Dr. P. T. Beeman; and by such other persons and at such places as they, or a majority of them, may direct, and that twenty days' notice of the opening of said books shall be given in one or more newspapers of the State, and furthermore, that the said Commissioners, or any five of them, may, at any time after said books have been kept open for the space of thirty days, and the sum of twenty thousand dollars have been subscribed to the capital stock of said Company, and five per cent. paid thereon, have power to call together the subscribers to said stock for the purpose of completing the organization of said Company, Organization. and the said subscribers shall be, and are hereby declared incorporated into a Company by the said name and style of the Central North Carolina Rail Road Company. Directors and term of office. SEC. 4. That said Company may hold annual meetings Annual meetings. of the stockholders, and oftener if necessary, and at its organization, and the annual meetings subsequent thereto, twelve Directors shall be elected by the stockholders to hold office for one year, or until their successors shall be elected, and any of said meetings shall have power to make or alter the by-laws of the Company: Provided, That in all such Proviso. meetings of the stockholders, a majority of all the stock subscribed shall be represented in person or by proxy, which proxy shall be verified in the manner prescribed by the by-laws of the Company, and each share thus represented shall be entitled to one vote on all questions; that it shall be the duty of the Directors to elect one of their number as President of said Company, and to fill all vacancies in the Board. Board of Directors to locate and in SEC. 5. That after the Company shall be organized as aforesaid the Board of Directors shall proceed to locate and struct." have constructed, as speedily as possible on the route they may find most practicable, a Rail Road to a point on the Southern boundary of the State to be fixed by them; that the said Company shall have the exclusive right of convey. ance or transportation of persons, goods, merchandize and produce on the said Rail Road to be by them constructed, at such charges as may be fixed by a majority of its Directhat said Company may assign or lease their franchise, or their rights of transportation on said Road to any person, tors; persons or corporation. ment of stock. SEC. 6. That said Company shall have the same power to May enforce payuse and enforce the payment of stock subscribed as was heretofore granted to the North Carolina Rail Road Company by the charter of incorporation, and shall have power 1 Contracts to b binding. Guage of Road to condemn land for the use of the Company when a contract of purchase cannot be made with the owner thereof, to the same extent and in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as the said North Carolina Rail Road Company was authorized to do by the act of incorporation. SEC. 7. That all contracts made and entered into by the President or Superintendent of the Company, whether with or without seal, shall be binding upon the Company, and the President shall, under the instructions of the Board of Directors, issue certificates of stock to the stockholders which shall be transferable by the by-laws of the Company. SEC. 8. Provided, That the guage of this Road shall be the same as that of the North Carolina and Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road. SEC. 9. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 9th day of March, A. D. 1869. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the County Commissioners of the County of Camden are authorized to levy a special tax of fifteen hundred dollars, in order to meet the County expenses, to repair public buildings and also to pay a portion of the outstanding debt of the County. Ratified the 9th day of March, A. D. 1869. CHAPTER LXVII. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. WHEREAS, By virtue of an act of the General Assembly Preamble. passed in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of a State Asylum for the Insane of North Carolina," and of other acts supplemental thereto, passed since that time, a tract of land has been purchased, and many suitable buildings have been erected, and may be erected thereon, for the accommodation, maintenance, support and care of the insane of this State, and the Institution has been incorporated under the name of the Lunatic Asylum for the State of North Carolina; SECTION 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do Corporate name. enact, That the said Institution shall be and remain a corporation, under the name of " The Insane Asylum of North Carolina," and the same is hereby invested with all the property which now belongs to it under the present or any other corporate name; and by this name it may acquire and hold, for the purposes of its establishment, all such property and estate as may be devised, bequeathed, or in any way given or conveyed to it. Government of Asylum and vacan SEC. 2. The government of the Insane Asylum shall be vested in the Governor and five Supervisors, to be by him cies. appointed every four years; the Governor to be ex officio Chairman of the Board, which shall be called the Board of Supervisors: Provided nevertheless, That the present Supervisors shall be, and continue in office until their successors shall be appointed: And provided further, That the Governor shall have power to remove any of said Supervisors, and to fill vacancies caused by such removal from office or otherwise. SEC. 3. The quadrennial appointment of said Supervisors shall be made within thirty days after the inauguration of |