ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, 1888-1889, VOLUME II. page 415 (Excerpts)

Incorporating the Bellton, Homer and Carnesville Railroad Company

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That M.B. CARTER, C.R. FAULKNER and Robert QUILLIAN of the county of Hall, and M. BUICE of the county of Fulton, and A.P. WOFFORD, J.N. COGGINS, P.F.M. FURR, T.B. GRIFFIN, T.F. HILL, V. D. LOCKHART, and P.M. EDWARDS of the county of Banks, and W. R. LITTLE. S. N. TRIBBLE, J. S . DORTCH and J. C. MCCONNELL, of the county of Franklin, and such persons as may be hereafter be associated with them, their successors and assigns, are herby constituted a body corporate and politic, under the names and style of the Bellton, Homer and Carnesville Railroad Company, with all and singular powers and privileges herein contained, for the term of fisty years.

SECTION II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to survey, lay out, construct, equip, operate and maintain a dummy line or railroad of such gauge as said company may agree upon, from the town of Bellton, in the counties of Hall and Banks, and to the town of Carnesville, in the county of Franklin, by way of Homer, in the county of Banks, by such route as said corporators deem for the best interest of the road.

Approved November 13, 1889.

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