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 BTEWARX V. CHESAPEAKB & OHIO CANAL CO. 15& �OEDER OP THE COURT. �The tollo-wing order was then passed and signed by the court : �"Ordered, this January 7, 1881, that the prayer of the complainant's bill for an injunction and the appointment of a receiver is hereby refused. But it appearing to the court to be equitable that the bondholders sh'ould be afforded some convenient method of scrutinizing the receipts and expendi- tures of the canal company, and that this court should accord- ingly retain this bill for the purpose of having the corpora- tion at stated intervais render an account of its receipts and disbursements for the information and protection of said bondholders, therefore, it is further ordered and decreed that for the purpose aforesaid the bill of complaint be retained by the court, and the canal company be and it is hereby required to file with the clerk of this court quarterly reports, under oath, of its receipts and disbursements, with an itemized ac- count of such receipts and disbursements, and with the namea of its offieers and employes, and the salary paid to each ; and that at any time, upon the application of the complainant in ■writing, the defendant shall exhibit for inspection, in the clerk's office of this court, any original vouchers or other papers that may be referred to in any of said reports. And ba it further ordained and decreed that the complainant or his solicitors shall at ail times bave free access to the books and papers of the said Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company for inspection and examination in the office of said company. �"And itis further ordered that the quarterly reports afore- mentioned shall be made by the said canal company within thîrty days after the expiration of each quarter, commencing fromthe first day of January, 1881, for the first quarter. �"It is further ordered that the costs of this case — to be taxed by the clerk — shall be paid by the said Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company out of the first moneys which shaU be in its hands otherwise applicable to the payment of the coupons upon the preferred bonds in controversy; and the clerk is hereby directed to tax, as part of the costs, the «ixpense of printing the various pleadings, exhibits, and bri<v( nf the respective parties." ����