“AN ACT to incorporate the Hopkinsville and Cumberland River Rail Road Company.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That John P. Campbell, James Ware, N. E. Gray, A. Webber, F. G. Montgomery, Henry J. Stites, David Anderson, Samuel Shryock, James J. Morrison, Edmund Bacon, D. Hillman, Robert L. Cobb, William Soery, Robert McReynolds and John Stacker, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, under the direction of a majority of whom, subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the Hopkinsville and Cumberland River Railroad Company, hereby incorporated; and they, or a majority of them, may have books opened at such times as they may direct, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said Company, after having given such notice of said times and places as they may deem proper; and, after the opening of said books, they shall be kept open for at least five successive days, from 10 o’clock,’A. M., until 2 o’clock, P. M.; and if, at the expiration of that period, such a subscription to the capital stock of said Company as is deemed necessary to its incorporation, shall not have been obtained, the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, may cause the said books to be opened, from time to time, after the expiration of said five days, for the space of twelve months thereafter, or until the sum, necessary to the incorporation of said Company shall be subscribed; if sooner subscribed, and if any of said Commissioners shall die, resign, or refuse to act, during the continuance of the duties devolved upon them by this act, another may be appointed in his stead, by the remaining Commissioners, or a majority thereof. …”

Reference Data:

Acts Passed at the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, December Session, 1847, by Kentucky, 1848, page 245