1909_private laws_69_5
CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE PEE DEE VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Said company may in its discretion build any portion or all of its branches or branch lines or extensions before completing its main line, and may construct a part of its main line, as specified in section two hereof, without completing said entire main line, and may build said lines by such routes as it deems. most advantageous and expedient; that it may, under such purchase, lease, agreement or running arrangement as it may or can make with any other railroad company, operate any road link between different portions of its own line, or permit any other railroad company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to operate any part of its own line; that it shall have the right to cross navigable streams and canals on its route, and that said company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain and use bridges for the transportation of its cars across any river or rivers or canals in the line of its said railroads: Provided, that said bridges shall be so constructed as not to interfere with rafts on said rivers or canals which may be crossed by said railroads, and that said company shall provide drawbridges at such points on said rivers or canals where it shall be necessary for the convenience of boats navigating said rivers or canals.