Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for James Pleasants or search for James Pleasants in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The secession question to be Tested in Court. (search)
e all the rights, powers, duties, and privileges of the President and Directors were conferred upon the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor and Second Auditor of the Commonwealth, ex-officio, whose transactions were to be still in the name of the "James River Company." This organization continued until the year 1835. The President under the compact, was John Coalter, from the 29th February, 1820, to the 17th March, 1823. The Governors who were Presidents ex-officio, were James Pleasants, John Tyler, William B. Giles, John Floyd, Littleton Waller Tazewell. The James River and Kanawha Company was incorporated March 16th, 1832, and organized May 25th, 1835. By the charter the whole interest of the Commonwealth in the works and property of the then existing James River Company was transferred to the James River and Kanawha Company; the State being interested in the latter to the extent of three-fifths of its capital stock, and individuals and corporations to the exte