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Executive Department, Columbia, November 30, 1863 |
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| Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives |
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The wisdom of your legislation restricting the
cultivation of cotton to one acre to the full hand, has been
abundantly proved by experience.
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I transmit copies of an interesting communication from
Col. Allan Macfarlan, President of the Cheraw & Coal Fields
Railroad Company, to which I ask your attention. Whatever the State
can properly do towards securing promptly a supply of coal for her
public works, I suggest should be done without delay. She is a
stockholder in that Company. If the end desired can be accomplished by
it, I recommend that she increase her subscription sufficiently to
effect it.
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In this connection, I call your attention to the proposed
connection of the Spartanburg & Union Railroad with the Charlotte
and Shelby Road -- the link known as the Shelby and Broad River
Railroad -- by which a continuous line of railroad will be completed
between the iron works in this State and Greensboro', N. C., near
which are other coal fields.
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I submit to your consideration the propriety of
prohibiting the further existence and operation of express companies
in this State. Their use is of very questionable policy at any time;
but at a time like this, when every man capable of bearing arms should
be in the field, if not absolutely necessary in some other pursuit,
the companies should be abandoned, and some system adopted by which
the railroad and other transportation companies should be required to
perform the duties now performed by the express companies. This
subject has arrested the attention of many intelligent and practical
men, and I transmit copies of the outlines of a plan submitted to me
for effecting this object, which I recommend to your consideration.
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M. L. Bonham {Governor} |
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