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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
Volume 190, Page 2312   View pdf image (33K)
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1872.] , OF THE SENATE. 705
Section 8, line 4, strike out "April" and insert "June."
In line 7, section 5, after the word "show" strike out the
words "in detail."
In section 7, line 3, strike out "April" and insert "June."
Section 9, line 3, after the word "book," insert the words
"or books."
Section 10, line 2, strike out "agent" and insert ' cashier
or other principal officer or agent."
Which were severally read and adopted.
Mr. Stephenson submitted the following :
Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the charter and all other
authority by which any Telegraph Company now, or which
may hereafter be erected in this State, is authorized to do the
business of telegraphing, shall be recorded in the Clerk's office
of the Circuit Courts of the several counties in which a tele-
graph line or lines may be erected, and all sales, transfers and
assignments of any and every telegraph standing or erected in
this State, shall be recorded within sixty days after the sale,
transfer or assignment is made, in the same manner and
place or places as their charter and other authority are re-
quired by this Act to be recorded; and any failure, neglect
or refusal to comply with the requirements of this section by
any Telegraph Company doing telegraph business in this
State, shall debar such Company from any and all action at
law for any injury or damage done to any poles or wires,
erected in or set up in this State.
Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That no plea of limitation shall
be valid and of effect in any Court of law in this State, in
bar to any trespass or damage committed by any Telegraph
Company in erecting a telegraph, until three years after
their charter, and all authority they may claim to have for
erecting telegraph line or lines through this State, shall
have been recorded as required by section 1 of this Act; and
they shall also exhibit and keep exhibited in some prominent
and convenient place in each office of business of said Compa-
nies, for the inspection of persons having business with said
Companies, the charter and all other authority by which
said Telegraph Companies are authorized to erect lines of
telegraph in this State.
Which were adopted.
Said bill, as amended, was then read the third time, and.
passed by yeas and nays, as follows :
AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs. President, Henry,
Blake, Jump,
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