[1677] Governor Lewis’s Message, Nov., 1874; Senate Journal, 1874-1875.
[1678] Report of House Railroad Committee; Auditor’s Report, 1873.
[1679] Auditor’s Report, 1871.
[1680] Martin, “Internal Improvements,” p. 70; Auditor’s Report, 1869; Acts of Dec. 30, 1869, Acts of Ala., 1868, pp. 487, 494. The South and North road was merely an expansion of “The Mountain Railroad Company,” an old corporation.
[1681] Acts of 1869-1880, p. 374.
[1682] Message, in Independent Monitor, Dec. 13, 1870.
[1683] Report of House Railroad Inv. Com., 1871. See also Report of Auditor, 1870, which says $1,980,000 indorsement.
[1684] Ku Klux Rept., Ala. Test., p. 197.
[1685] Auditor’s Report, 1871.
[1686] Ku Klux Rept., p. 318; Report of House Railroad Inv. Com., 1871.