1885_private laws_58_7
CHAPTER 57 An act to promote the objects of the Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company. Wuerzas, R. T. Arrington, 8 P. Arrington and Wm. | Mahone of Petersburg, Virginia, and J. D. Cameron of the State of Pennsylvania, became purchasers of the fran-  chises, rights, privileges, works and property of the Roanoke Navigation Company, between the towns of Gaston and Weldon and at Weldon, at a sale made by the same under a decree of the superior court of the county of Halifax in the State of North Carolina, and in pursu- ance of the act of the Legislature of the said State, ratified on the eighteenth day.of March, one thousand eight hun- dred and seventy-five, entitled An act for the dissolution of the Roanoke Navigation Company; and whereas, said sale has been duly confirmed by said court and a convey- ance of said franchises, rights, privileges, works and prop- erty by Thomas N. Hill, receiver of said company, duly appointed by said court, has been executed to the said purchasers under the corporate name of the  Roanoke Navigation and Water Power Company, and the deed of conveyance of the said receiver has been duly admitted to probate and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Halifax county; and whereas, by the terms of said act of the General Assembly of this State and the said deed made in pursuance thereof, the said purchasers became a corporation by any name mentioned in said deed ; therefore T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That this act shall not materially interfere with the legal or vested rights of any persons owning or operating mills in Northampton county, or prevent any person owning land on Roanoke river from operating or erecting any mill or other structure to be operated by water power, aud using the water of said river for operating said mill or other structure: Provided, in so doing be shall not interfere with the legal or vested rights of any other person or corporation in any unreasonable manner.