| {From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Virginia Central RR,
March 21, 1861} |
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| Richmond March 21 1861 |
| At a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Virginia Central Rail Road Company present |
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E Fontaine |
President |
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Saml Carpenter |
Directors |
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Jacob Baylor |
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John R Woods |
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Wm Overton |
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| In reference to the claim of the Ravenna
Navigation Company to be allowed to widen their canal and asking
that the Railroad be immediately put under contract on another
location not interfering with the Canal with RR. Richardson under
his bid of the ?th March but the Board decided |
| 1st That whenever this work of changing
the Railroad is done the contract must receive the sanction of the
Engineer of this Company and be executed under his supervision; but
that it was not expedient to take any measures in constructing the
proposed new line until this question of the damages for the right
of way was settled. |
| 2nd That even if the arbitrators should
decide that the Ravenna Company held the prior right of way they are
not willing to assume the whole expense of a new location but that
the proposition of the Prest under date of 22d Sept 1860 should be
submitted to the decision of the arbitrators and that they reserve
the right to change their bridges if they think proper to do so
unless the arbitrators shall award a division of the cost of
changing the location of the Railroad. |