Chap. 30.—An ACT to incorporate the Staffordsville bridge and turn-
pike company, in Giles county, Virginia.

Approved January 20, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Ralph R.
Stafford, William K. Brooks, Edward -Johnston, Hiram I.
Jones, D. C. Straley, I. K. Miller, and William Eggleston,
their associates, successors or assigns, shall be, and they are
hereby made a body politic and corporate, with perpetual
succession under the name and style of The Staffordsville
Bridge and Turnpike Company, for the purpose of construct-
ing and maintaining a bridge across Walker’s creek, and a
turnpike road in the county of Giles, from some point at or
near Eggleston’s springs, or on the line of the New river
railroad, by the most practicable route, via Staffordsville to
tho Giles and Pulaski turnpike; and shall be invested with
all the rights, privileges and powers conferred, and subject
to all the rules and regulations imposed upon turnpike com-
panies by the laws of Virginia, not inconsistent with this act.

2. The aforesaid corporators, or any commissioners ap-
pointed by a majority of them, are authorized to receive sub-
scriptions to the capital stock of said company in shares of
ten dollars each, at any time or place to the amount of fifteen
thousand dollars, and may receive the same in land, money,
labor, any article of trade, merchandise, or other property,
and make sale of the same; and it shall be lawful for the
New river railroad, mining and manufacturing company to
subscribe to the capital stock of said company, or to assist in
the construction of said turnpike, as may be agreed upon by
the two companies.

3. The said company, in constructing said turnpike, shall
have the right, with the consent of the Giles county court,
entered of record, to use the bed of the public road or roads
leading between the proposed termini of said turnpike, so far
as may be necessary to secure proper grade and location for
said turnpike; and the said company shall have control of the
entire width of said roads, so far as they may extend their
turnpike along the same: provided said turnpike shall not
be less than sixteen feet nor more than thirty feet in width;
and it may use stone, gravel, or other material necessary for
constructing and macadamizing any portion or the whole of
said turnpike, as to them may seem most expedient. The
said company may erect toll-gates upon the completion of
sections of five miles, as provided by law.

4. The said company is privileged to make such by-laws
to provide for the election and number of its officers as it
may sce proper; and it shall be lawful for the board of direc-
tors of said company to bridge Walker’s creck at Staffords-
ville, to the exclusion of any other work on said turnpike,
and to collect toll for the use of the same, until said road
shall be completed.

5. It shall be lawful for the governor to hire any convicts
sentenced to the penitentiary for a less time than five years
to said company, upon such terms as he and said company
may agree, upon sccurity being given for the safe-keeping of
said convicts.

6. It shall be lawful for said company to condemn land of
private individuals for the location and construction of said
turnpike, upon application to the county court for the ap-
pointment of three disinterested freeholders as commission-
ers, afler giving ten days notice to the land-owners; and
provided the report of said commissioners should be rejected,
or they fail to report after appointment, it shall then be the
duty of the county court to appoint three other disinterested
freeholders, whose decision shall be final, and the same en-
tered of record as now provided by law.

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