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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Representation — the latest news from Washington. (search)
Meeting of the stockholders of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. --The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Richmond and Danville railroad was held at 12 o'clock yesterday in the Exchange Hotel. Mr. Buford, president of the company, called the meeting to order. Mr. F. N. Watkins, of Prince Edward, was chosen chairman; Messrs. John D. Blair and — Baskerville acted as secretaries. The first business announced by the Chairman to be in order was the appointment of the following committee on proxies: Messrs. Giles. Treadway and Coleman. The committee proceeded to the execution of their labors, and after the lapse of a half an hour, made the following report: Votes by proxy, 1,014: by stockholders present, 791; State vote, 1,202--making an aggregate vote of 3,007. Necessary to a quorum, 3,367. Mr. Bouldin remarked that the precedent had been established, in making up a quorum, for the whole vote of the State to be counted; whereupon the chairman of th