Chap. 187.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist and 9th Sections
of the Act entitled an Act to Incorporate The Washington, Cincin-
nati and St. Louis Railroad Company.

Approved April 15, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first and ninth sections of an act entitled an act to incor-
porate The Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad
Company, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That William Milnes, Jr., P. B. Borst, B. F. Grayson, T. M.
Almond, A. Broaddus, Isaac Long, J. W. Ashby, H. M. Key-
ser and M. Spitler of Page county, Virginia; J. G. Davis,
James Stevens, James Beazley and G. W. Mitchell of Greene
county, Virginia; A. B. Trick, P. S. Roller, A. E. Grey, G. W.
Allemon of Rockingham county, Virginia; Adam Stephen-
son, W. W. Flemming and Paul Lightner of Highland county,
Virginia; W. W. Flannigan, Wm. A. Robertson, A. D. Almend,
Rawles Abell, B. H. Magruder, John Wood, Jr., and G. B.
Stephens of Albemarle county, Virginia; R. H. Maury, Thomas
Branch, W. F. Taylor, F. Stearns and Wellington Goddin of
the city of Richmond, Virginia; or such of them as may ac-
cept the provisions of this act, and such persons and corpo-
rations a8 may become associated with them, in the manner
hereinafter provided, shall be and they are hereby constitu-
ted a body politic and corporate, by the name of The Wash-
ington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company ; and by
that name shall have all the powers, rights and franchises
necessary and proper to locate, construct and maintain a
narrow guage railroad, not exceeding three feet between
rails, to be known as The Washington, Cincinnati and St.
Louis Railroad ; to begin at a point on the Potomac river op-
posite to the District of Columbia, in the state of Virginia,
and to run thence by the most practicable route to some point
on the Virginia and West Virginia state line in the county
of Highland, in the state of Virginia, with a branch from a
suitable point on said road, via Charlottesville, in the county
of Albemarle, to the city of Richmond, in the county of Hen-
rico; also, a branch from some suitable point on the main line
of said road to the city of Alexandria.”

Ҥ 9. That any county, city or town by, near, or through
which the line of said Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis
railroad, or any of its branches, may run, is hereby autho-
rized to subscribe to the capital stock of said company, in
the manner and under the rules and regulations prescribed
by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, and approved
June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, autho-
rizing subscriptions to the stock of incorporated companies
by the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, Rockbridge, Bote-
tourt, Craig, and Roanoke, and the towns of Harrisonburg,
Staunton, Lexington and Salem.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.