State-Wide, NC – Gold Mining Company - Act to Incorporate, 1827

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An Act to incorporate the North-Carolina Gold Mining Company

Whereas certain individuals of this and other States have associated 
themselves together, under the name of the “North-Carolina Gold Mining 
Company,” with intent to work the gold mines of North-Carolina on plans 
more skilful and extensive than heretofore practiced in this State, and 
they having applied to this Legislature to constitute them a body 
politic and corporate: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Andrew 
Kerr, John Beard, jr., H.W. Conner, James Legrand, W. Harris, and their 
present and future associates, be, and they are hereby constituted a 
body politic and corporate, by the name and style of “The North-
Carolina Gold Mining Company;” and by that name shall have perpetual 
succession and a common seal, my acquire and hold, sell and transfer 
estate, real and personal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 
and generally have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and 
privileges usually exercised and enjoyed by bodies politic and 
corporate in this State.

Be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall 
authorize the company to exercise any banking privileges, or to enter 
on and work any of the lands belonging to the State.

Be it further enacted, That this charter shall expire at the end of 
fifty years from the ratification of the same.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That power is 
hereby granted to the company aforesaid to make and establish such bye-
laws and regulations for their own government as they may deed 
necessary and proper, the same being not inconsistent with the laws of 
the land.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1827
Chapter CIII
Page 73

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