five stockholders be appointed to inquire and report whether any change in the policy of this Company in regard to freighting is desirable; and whether this Company may not advantageously contract with express and transportation companies for the conduct and management of a general through freighting business over its road in connection with their lines North and South."
The resolution was adopted, and the following committee appointed: Messrs. Flournoy, Treadway, Burr, Stokes and William C. Scott.
The following were unanimously elected:--President, A. S. Buford; Directors, John R. Edmonds, of Halifax, and Wood Bouldin, of Charlotte.
Mr. Sutherlin offered a preamble, with the following resolution attached:
"Resolved, That, in consideration of extraordinary labors, and the eminently efficient manner in which the President has discharged every duty, however onerous, imposed upon him, we direct that the salary, amounting to $3,500, so ordered to be paid over to this Com
