Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to in-
corporate the Old Dominion telegraph company, approved March 29,
1875.

Approved March 13, 1877.

1. Be it ofacted by the general assembly, That section
four of an act to incorporate the Old Dominion telegraph
company, approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen handred
and seventy-five, be amended and re-chacted so as to read as
follows:

§4. That the persons named in this act, or any three of
them, shall call a meeting on or before the first day of Jan-
uary, cighteen hundred and seventy-eight, of the corporate
body hereby created, giving a week’s notice of the time and
place of holding the same, in at least one newspaper in Rich-
mond, for the purpose of choosing a president and seven
directors, which seven directors, with the president, shall
constitute the board of directors for the management of the
affairs of the corporation; and said board shall elect a secre-
tary and treasurer, either or both of whom may be chosen
from their own number. Said board shall hold.their offices
for the term of one year, and until their successors shall be
elected, and shall exercise all the powers pertaining to the
making, maintaining, use, and management of said telegraph
lines, and the affuirs, interest, and business of the said cor-

oration.

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