Chap. 181.—An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United
States of title to, and jurisdiction over a space within limits, to be
determined by accurate survey, between certain latitude and longi-
tude, for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital, and erect-
ing a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected
vessels.

Approved February 15, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to a
space within limits, to be determined by accurate survey
between the parallels of latitude of thirty-six degrees, fifty-five
minutes, and thirty-six degrees, fifty-seven minutes north,
and between the meridians of longitude seventy-six degrees,
[wenty-two minutes, and seventy-six degrees, twenty-four
minutes west, and the land adjacent thereto, covered by the
navigable waters belonging to the state, for the distance of
one and a quarter miles northward, from buoy number three,
a8 laid down in coast chart number thirty-one, Chesapeake
bay, sheet number one of the United States coast survey, for
a site, or sites, for the establishment of a quarantine station,
and the erection of suitable buildings for a hospital, and one
or more separate buildings for the care of the sick and for
the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels
arriving in Hampton roads, and shall, by a duly authorized
agent of the United States, make application therefor,
describing the site required for the said purposes, and the
area thereof; then the governor of the state is authorized
and empowered to convey to the United States the said site
or sites, and to cede to the United States jurisdiction over
the same: provided that the land conveyed and ceded, shall
not contain more than ten acres.

2. All the land and privileges over which jurisdiction is hereby
ceded, and the buildings and property which may be placed
thereon by the United States, shall be exempt from taxation
so long as the same shall be used for the purposes hereinbe-
fore mentioned: provided that nothing in this act shall take
away, or interfere with the jurisdiction of this state for the
purpose of serving and executing any legal process: and pro-
vided further, that the title to the said land so conveyed to
the United States shall escheat, and the possession thereof
revert to the state, unless said quarantine is established, and
the erection of said hospital and other buildings is begun
within five years, and completed within ten years after such
conveyance is made; that should the use of said land, for
the purposes aforesaid, by the United States, be discontinued
for the space of ten years, or used for a purpose different
from that contemplated in this act, then, also, the title shall
revert to the state.

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

Chap. 181.—An ACT incorporating the Fauquier and Rappanannock
Railroad Company.

Approved February 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books of subscription at the town of Washing-
ton, and such other places in the county of Rappahannock,
as the commissioners hereinafter named shall designate,
under the direction of J. Y. Menefee, Middleton Miller, John
T. Daniel, Douglas Gordon, John T. Fletcher, W. W. Moffett,
J.J. Miller, John A. Browning, William F. Anderson, H. S.
Menetee, Colonel T. B. Massie, H. S. Fletcher, H. A. Wood,
Robert BE. Miller, James W. Fletcher, William Mason, James
E. Yates, Robert L. Menefee, P. H. O’Bannon, John B. Mil-
ler, William Yancey, Joseph Crane, T. G. Popham, Charles
Green, William N. Smith, N. B. Smott, and H. G. Moffett,
junior, or any five of them; and also at Salem, Warrenton,
and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, and other places in the
county of Fauquier as the commissioners hereinafter named
shall designate, under the direction of Hugh R. Garden,
James Keith, William H. Payne, R. Taylor Scott, R. M.
Stribling, Thomas Foster, and James M. Marshall Priestly, or
anv five of them, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions
to an amount not exceeding one million dollars, in shares of
twenty-five dollars eacb, to constitute a joint capital stock for
constructing a railroad from some point on the main line of
the Virginia Midland railway company; or any branch
thereof, to Sperryville, in the county of Eapaannoct, run-
hing to or within a mile of Washington, the county seat of
said county.
2. Be it further enacted, That whenever ten thousand dol-
lars of the amount aforesaid shall have been subscribed, the
subscribers, the executors, administrators, and assigns, shall
be and they are hereby declared and constituted a body poli-
tic and corporate, under the name and style of the Fauquier
and Rappahannock railroad company, and as such shall be
entitled to all the privileges conferred, and subject to all the
restrictions imposed by the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and acts amendatory
thereof,so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
witd this act.

3. It shall be lawful to receive subscriptions to the capital
stock of this company in money, labor, land, or material,
such as timber, stone, lumber, or other supplies usually
required in construction of rairoads.

4. It shall also be lawful to receive subscriptions to stock

‘of this company from any connecting railroad company, or
from any mining or manufacturing companies which may be
established, to operate upon the line of this railroad in the
state of Virginia and interested in its construction.

5. The said company shall have power to build branches
or lateral roads, not exceeding twenty miles in length,
to connect with any mines, iron-works or other manufacto-
ries, or beds or deposits of other minerals in said counties or
adjacent counties.

6. Subscriptions to the stock of said company may be made
by the county of Rappahannock, or any adjoining county
interested in the construction of this road or its branches:

» provided, however, that the subscriptions voted by the coun-
ties shall be expended in the counties making the same, and
that the subscriptions in each county shall not exceed one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the proper authori-
ties of said counties shall cause a vote to be taken therein on
the question of such county subscriptions at such time as the
commissioners of subscriptions named in the first section of
this act, or a majority of them or the company, may ask such
vote to be taken, except that in order to authorize said sub-
scription, it shall only be necessary that three-fifths of the
votes cast at such election shall be in favor of said subscrip-
tion; which said three-fifths shall include a majority of the
rogistcred freeholders of the county. Should such subscrip-
tions be ordered, the board of supervisors of said county or
counties, shall make such subscriptions, notwithstanding that
the amount so subscribed, shall require the imposition of an
annual tax in excess of twenty cents on the one hundred dol-
lars, to pay the interest on the amount so subscribed, and to
provide a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the princi-
pal; and to this end may issue bonds bearing a rate of’ inte-
rest not exceeding six per centum per annum, of such
denominations as said authoritics may determine.

7. It shall be Jawful for said railroad company to borrow
money for the construction or repair of the road, issue bonds
and secure the same by mortgage upon its property and fran-
chises or otherwise.

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8. It shall be lawful for said company to lease its road, or M
any part thereof, to the Virginia Midland railway company, pe
or any other railroad company chartered by the common- fh
wealth. |

9. The road herein authorized to be constructed, shall be W
commenced within twelve months, and completed to Sperry-
ville within three years after the passage of this act.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage. Cc

Chap. 181.—An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United
States of title to, and jurisdiction over a space within limits, to be
determined by accurate survey, between certain latitude and longi-
tude, for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital, and erect-
ing a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected
vessels.

Approved February 15, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever the United States shall desire to acquire title to a
space within limits, to be determined by accurate survey
between the parallels of latitude of thirty-six degrees, fifty-five
minutes, and thirty-six degrees, fifty-seven minutes north,
and between the meridians of longitude seventy-six degrees,
[wenty-two minutes, and seventy-six degrees, twenty-four
minutes west, and the land adjacent thereto, covered by the
navigable waters belonging to the state, for the distance of
one and a quarter miles northward, from buoy number three,
a8 laid down in coast chart number thirty-one, Chesapeake
bay, sheet number one of the United States coast survey, for
a site, or sites, for the establishment of a quarantine station,
and the erection of suitable buildings for a hospital, and one
or more separate buildings for the care of the sick and for
the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels
arriving in Hampton roads, and shall, by a duly authorized
agent of the United States, make application therefor,
describing the site required for the said purposes, and the
area thereof; then the governor of the state is authorized
and empowered to convey to the United States the said site
or sites, and to cede to the United States jurisdiction over
the same: provided that the land conveyed and ceded, shall
not contain more than ten acres.

2. All the land and privileges over which jurisdiction is hereby
ceded, and the buildings and property which may be placed
thereon by the United States, shall be exempt from taxation
so long as the same shall be used for the purposes hereinbe-
fore mentioned: provided that nothing in this act shall take
away, or interfere with the jurisdiction of this state for the
purpose of serving and executing any legal process: and pro-
vided further, that the title to the said land so conveyed to
the United States shall escheat, and the possession thereof
revert to the state, unless said quarantine is established, and
the erection of said hospital and other buildings is begun
within five years, and completed within ten years after such
conveyance is made; that should the use of said land, for
the purposes aforesaid, by the United States, be discontinued
for the space of ten years, or used for a purpose different
from that contemplated in this act, then, also, the title shall
revert to the state.

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

Chap. 181.—An ACT incorporating the Fauquier and Rappanannock
Railroad Company.

Approved February 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books of subscription at the town of Washing-
ton, and such other places in the county of Rappahannock,
as the commissioners hereinafter named shall designate,
under the direction of J. Y. Menefee, Middleton Miller, John
T. Daniel, Douglas Gordon, John T. Fletcher, W. W. Moffett,
J.J. Miller, John A. Browning, William F. Anderson, H. S.
Menetee, Colonel T. B. Massie, H. S. Fletcher, H. A. Wood,
Robert BE. Miller, James W. Fletcher, William Mason, James
E. Yates, Robert L. Menefee, P. H. O’Bannon, John B. Mil-
ler, William Yancey, Joseph Crane, T. G. Popham, Charles
Green, William N. Smith, N. B. Smott, and H. G. Moffett,
junior, or any five of them; and also at Salem, Warrenton,
and Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, and other places in the
county of Fauquier as the commissioners hereinafter named
shall designate, under the direction of Hugh R. Garden,
James Keith, William H. Payne, R. Taylor Scott, R. M.
Stribling, Thomas Foster, and James M. Marshall Priestly, or
anv five of them, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions
to an amount not exceeding one million dollars, in shares of
twenty-five dollars eacb, to constitute a joint capital stock for
constructing a railroad from some point on the main line of
the Virginia Midland railway company; or any branch
thereof, to Sperryville, in the county of Eapaannoct, run-
hing to or within a mile of Washington, the county seat of
said county.
2. Be it further enacted, That whenever ten thousand dol-
lars of the amount aforesaid shall have been subscribed, the
subscribers, the executors, administrators, and assigns, shall
be and they are hereby declared and constituted a body poli-
tic and corporate, under the name and style of the Fauquier
and Rappahannock railroad company, and as such shall be
entitled to all the privileges conferred, and subject to all the
restrictions imposed by the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and acts amendatory
thereof,so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent
witd this act.

3. It shall be lawful to receive subscriptions to the capital
stock of this company in money, labor, land, or material,
such as timber, stone, lumber, or other supplies usually
required in construction of rairoads.

4. It shall also be lawful to receive subscriptions to stock

‘of this company from any connecting railroad company, or
from any mining or manufacturing companies which may be
established, to operate upon the line of this railroad in the
state of Virginia and interested in its construction.

5. The said company shall have power to build branches
or lateral roads, not exceeding twenty miles in length,
to connect with any mines, iron-works or other manufacto-
ries, or beds or deposits of other minerals in said counties or
adjacent counties.

6. Subscriptions to the stock of said company may be made
by the county of Rappahannock, or any adjoining county
interested in the construction of this road or its branches:

» provided, however, that the subscriptions voted by the coun-
ties shall be expended in the counties making the same, and
that the subscriptions in each county shall not exceed one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the proper authori-
ties of said counties shall cause a vote to be taken therein on
the question of such county subscriptions at such time as the
commissioners of subscriptions named in the first section of
this act, or a majority of them or the company, may ask such
vote to be taken, except that in order to authorize said sub-
scription, it shall only be necessary that three-fifths of the
votes cast at such election shall be in favor of said subscrip-
tion; which said three-fifths shall include a majority of the
rogistcred freeholders of the county. Should such subscrip-
tions be ordered, the board of supervisors of said county or
counties, shall make such subscriptions, notwithstanding that
the amount so subscribed, shall require the imposition of an
annual tax in excess of twenty cents on the one hundred dol-
lars, to pay the interest on the amount so subscribed, and to
provide a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the princi-
pal; and to this end may issue bonds bearing a rate of’ inte-
rest not exceeding six per centum per annum, of such
denominations as said authoritics may determine.

7. It shall be Jawful for said railroad company to borrow
money for the construction or repair of the road, issue bonds
and secure the same by mortgage upon its property and fran-
chises or otherwise.

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8. It shall be lawful for said company to lease its road, or M
any part thereof, to the Virginia Midland railway company, pe
or any other railroad company chartered by the common- fh
wealth. |

9. The road herein authorized to be constructed, shall be W
commenced within twelve months, and completed to Sperry-
ville within three years after the passage of this act.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage. Cc