Excerpt from Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Western North Carolina: Railroad Company With the Reports of the Officers, 1861 A question arose as to the right and propriety of John I. Shaver to vote as proxy for Col. C. F. Fisher. Upon motion of W. F. McKesson, Mr. Shaver was allowed, upon the unanimous voice of the meeting, to vote the stock of Mr. Fisher. Upon motion, the stockholders proceeded to the election of directors, and the chair appointed C. A, Carlton, J. J. Bru-ucr and R. C. Pearson to superintend the ballots. Mr. Shaver nominated for director, Anderson Ellis; W. P. Caldwell nominated R. A. Caldwell; Jas. E. Kerr nominated Otho Gillespie; C. S. Sumner nominated 0. G. Foard; nominated T. A. Allcin; R. C. Pearson nominated T, G. Walton. Directors elected-0. Gillespie, J. Cline, A. Ellis and R. A. Caldwell. W. F. McKesson and Dr. John McDowell were appointed a committee to verify proxies at the next annual meeting at Morganton. Also, moved and adopted, that the old Finance Committee be continued. Moved by Maj. Kerr, that 300 copies of the proceedings of the meeting be printed for the use of stockholders. Adopted. On motion of R. C. Pearson, the thanks of this meeting were tendered to the Chairman and Secretaries for the able and dignified manner in which they discharged their duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.