Chap. 172.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act enti-
tled an act to incorporate the Danville and New river railroad, ap-
proved March 29th, 1873.

Approved March 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That cection one
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New
river narrow-gauge railroad, be amended and re-enacted, so
as to read as fo:lows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That W. T. Sutherlin, W. T. Clark, John M. Jobnson, L. M.
Shumaker, Abner Anderson, P. Bouldin, A. M. Peyton, John
D. Glass, Robert H. Trotter, and Frank Gravely, of the county
of Pittsylvania, Virginia; B. F. Gravely, W. D. Stultz, John
F. Pedigo, C. Y. Thomas, George D. Gravely, John Rangely,
Jobn H. Schoolfield, William Martin, D. H. Spencer, and Sam-
uel J. Mullins, of Henry county, Virginia; Frank R. Penn,
Edwin Zentmyer, Perry McArthur, H. W. Reynolds, John Sta-
ples, W.T. Noel, M. Turner, J. N. Akers, Charles Ross, junior,
Stephen H. Turner, Wellington Thomas, M. T. Lawson, Tho-
mas Debart, John W. Gates, Jefferson Moore, and Samuel
Dobyns, of the county of Patrick, Virginia; Edward Marshall,
James L. Mitchell, James B. Johnson, Aaron Cox, Judge A.
W.C.-Nowlin, Martin Dalton, James Early, John Early, B.
W. Dobyns, and Judge Garland Hale, of Carroll county, Vir-
ginia; Alexander Chafin, Robert Jackson, Albert Oglesby, J.
C. Roper, Thomas Wood, 8. C. Crockett, D. C. Graham, Jobn
Robinson, and Joseph J. Graham, of Wythe ocunty, Virginia ;
Lewis H. Bryant, 8S. M. Fulton, P. G. Hale, John Dickenson,
M. B. Cox, and J. B. Hask, of Grayson county, Virginia; or
such of them as may accept the provisions of this | act, and
such persons and corporations as may become associated with
them in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be, and they
are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
name of The Danville and New River Railroad Company; and
by that name sha!'l have all the powers, rights and privileges,

necessary and proper to locate, construct, and maintain a
railroad, to be known as the Danville and New river narrow-
cwauge ri nilroad, to begin at or near Danville, or at some point
on the W ashington City, Virginia Midland and Great South-
ern railroad, between the town of Danville and Pittsylvania
courthouse, in the county of Pittsylvania: provided, that the
county of Henrv, in general meeting of the stockholders,
through its constituted authorities, consent thereto; thence
by Martinaville, in.Henry county, Patrick courthouse, Hills-
ville, in Carroll county, to some point on the Atlantic, Mas-
sissippi and Ohio railroad, not east of Christiansburg.

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