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CHAPTER 5 An act to incorporate the Swain Lumber and Boom Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That said company shall have power to take by purchase, lease or other operation of law, any lands, tenements and hereditaments in the state of North Carolina to such an amount as to them shall seem proper, and to hold and convey same in fee simple, as provided in section six hundred and eighty-five of The Code and its amendments. They shall have power to sell, grant and convey, improve, manage, develop, lease, mortgage, dispose of, or otherwise deal with, any part or all of the property of said company, in such manner as the said company may see fit.