Chap. 199.—An ACT authorizing the voters of Dinwiddie county to
vote for a fence law by magisterial district.

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Approved March 3, 1882.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be the
duty of the judge of the county court of Dinwiddie, upon
the petition, in writing, of twenty-five qualified voters in any
magisterial district in the county: provided that this act
shall not apply to New Hope precinct in Namozur magiste-
rial district; which petition may be presented, either in term
or vacation, to order the several officers conducting elections
in su@b dixtrict, at the times and places for holding the first
general election thereafter, to prepare a separate ballot-box
for each voting precinct, in which shall be deposited the bal-
lots of the then qualified voters, who shall desire to vote
upon the question of continuing or repealing the act passed
January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, rela-
ting to fences and for the protection of crops.

2. The said ballots shall be respectively as follows: “For
fence law;” “against fence law:” provided that notice of the
time and places of voting upon said question shall be given
by posting the same at the front door of the courthouse of
the county, and at each voting precinct of such district, at
least thirty days prior to said election.
3. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots
cast at such election, on said question, and making returns and
abstracts of the results thereof, shall conform in all respects
to the regulations prescribed by the general election law of
this state, except that the certificates of the judges of election
shall be as follows: We hereby certify that at the election
held , —— votes were cast for a fence law, and
— votes against a fence law.

A. B.,) Giorks E. F.,

C.D. 5 77ers® G. H., } Judges.

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If from such returns and abstracts of votes, so cast
on the question aforesaid, it shall appear that a majority
of the qualified voters voting upon the question, are in favor
of a fence law, then the fence laws of the state shall be in
force in the district within six months after said vote has
been taken.

4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.

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

Chap. 199.—An ACT to return to the public free schools a portion of
the moneys diverted therefrom.

Approved April 21, 1882,

Whereas the board of public works of Virginia, by con-
tract dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
one, sold to U. L. Boyce and F. J. Kimball, acting for them-
selves and their associates, all the rights, title, ant interest of
the siate of Virginia in, or to, or against the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad company, by virtue of the cove-
nant or mortgage executed by said company, dated Decem-
ber twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, upon certain terms as
to payment, and subject to the ratification of the general
assembly ; and whereas afterwards, to-wit, on the tenth da
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Clarence ih
Clark, on behalf of himself and his associates, including said
Boyce and Kimball, became the purchasers of the said Atlan-
tic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad at a foreclosure sale thereof,
made under decree of the ninth day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-nine, in the United States circuit court for
the eastern district of Virginia, in the cause of Frances
Skiddy and others, trustees, versus the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad company and others, therein pending, and
said parties proceeded to reorganize said railroad company
under the name of the Norfolk and Western railroad com-
pany, whereby, and by virtue of sundry assignments, the bene-
fits of said contract of February tenth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, now enure and belong to said Norfolk and
Western railroad company; and whereas by an act passed
— day of ——, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the gen-
ral assembly of Virginia has ratified and‘confirmed said con-
tract, and allowed the Norfolk and Western railroad company
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, to complete the payment of said five hundred thousand
dollars to the board of public works of Virginia; and
whereas out of the revenues assessed for the years eighteen
hundred and seventy to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
inclusive, a sum amounting to one million five hundred and
four thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-
seven cents, and dedicated by sections seven and eight of
article eight of the constitution of Virginia, to the public
free school fund, was diverted to other purposes prior to the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, as appears by reference to
senate document number twelve, Senate Journal, and so
forth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine—eighty, whereof
np to the present time the sum of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars due to the public free school fund, have
been restored to said funds; and whereas the general assem-
bly conceives it to be its paramount duty, under the consti-
tution, to restore to said public free school fund as speedily
as possible, the amount so as aforesaid from it diverted;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That whenever
the said Norfolk and Western railroad company shall pay
unto said board of public works the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars, aforesaid, or any part thereof, it shall be
the duty of the board of public works to pay the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars, part thereof, into the treasury
to the credit of the public free school fund, and subject to
the draft of the state board of education, at the rate of one
hundred thousand dollars per annum, to be expended by said
board for purposes of public education, and apportioned
ratably among the school districts of this state as current
revenue for similar purposes are apportioned.

2. The remaining one hundred thousand dollars of the sum
so paid, shall be paid into the treasury on special deposit,
subject to the future action of the general assembly, the
same being intended for the erection and maintenance of a
normal school for colored teachers to be hereafter established.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
repealed. )

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.

CuHar. 100.—An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Mining, Manu-
facturing, and Warehouse company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That L. W. Reid, H. Grafton Dulaney, W. H. Marbu
George EK. French, Peyton Randolph, Courtland H. Smith,
W. M. S. Dunn, Robert Portner, John W. Burke, John S.
Barbour, Arthur Herbert, E. L. Daingerfield, James H. Reid,
John B. Smoot, and Linden Kent, and their associates and
successors, be and they are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate and politic by the name and style of the
Alexandria Mining, Manufacturing, and Warehouse company,
and by that name and style shall have all the rights and
privileges conferred, and be subject to all the provisions of
chapters fifty-six, fifty-seven, and sixty one of the Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same may
be applicable to and are not inconsistent with the provisions
of this act.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
twenty-five thousand nor more than five million of dollars,
divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and for the
purpose of obtaining subscriptions to said capital stock, any
three of the persons named in the foregoing section, may
open books of subscription at such times and places as they
may appoint.
7. That for convenience of access to such mines or improve-
ments, the said company shall also have authority to con-
struct, equip, and operate one or more rail or tramways,
with all necessary sidings and branches (the latter not to
exceed fifteen miles in length), from any of said mines, fur-
naces, mills, or structures, to such point or points of conveni-
ent connection with each or any line of railway in Virginia,
as the said company shall determine; and for that purpose
may acquire title in the mode prescribed by law, and such
additional lands as may be necessary for the use of said roads
and tracks, and for the buildings and works of said company.

8. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect its railways with any line of railway, con-
structed or which may be constructed in this state, upon
such terms as may be agreed upon between it and such other
railway company, and for this purpose power is hereby
granted to it, and to any railroad company incorporated by
this state, to make and carry out such contracts, by lease,
purchase, or otherwise, as will facilitate and consummate
such connection or consolidation.

9. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company, with
which said Alexandria mining, manufacturing, and ware-
house company may conncct, is hereby authorized to sub-
scribe to the capital stock of said company, and the stock so
subscribed shal] have the same privileges and powers, and be
subject to the same conditions and regulations, as the stock
held by other stockholders therein.

10. The said company is hereby authorized to subscribe to
the capital stock of any railroad company chartered by the
state, which may have been constructed, or may hereafter
be constructed. It is also authorized to acquire, by purchase
or otherwise, stock or bonds of any such railway company,
and further authorized to receive subscriptions to its capital
stock from any corporation chartered under the laws of the
state of Virginia.

11. The said company is also authorized, from time to
time, to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for
its purposes, and for such loans to issue its bonds, bearing
interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum; to sell,
exchange, and hypothecate said bonds, on such terms as it
may deem advisable, and to secure the said bonds and inter-
est thereon by deed of trust or mortgage, conveying its
works, property, and franchises, in whole or in part.

12. That the president and directors of said company may
enact such by-laws and regulations, for the management of
the affairs of said company, as they may deem expedient,
the rame being consistent with the constitution and laws of
the state and of the United States.

13. That the shares of said company shall be deemed per-
sonal property, and assignable as such on the books of the
said company, under such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the directors, who shall have power, from time
to time, to increase the capital stock of said company, so
that it shall not exceed five millions of dollars as aforesaid.
14. The principal office of said company shall be located
in the city of Alexandria.
15. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CuaP. 101.—An ACT to authorized the school trustees in Manassas
magisterial district, in Prince William county, to devote a certain
sum from the county school funds due said district for eighteen hun-
cred and eighty-one, to the payment of certain indebtedness of said

istrict.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the district school trustees of Manassas magisterial district,
in the county of Prince William, be and are hereby author-
ized to devote the sum of two hundred and thirty-five dol-
lars from the county school fund, due said district for the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the payment of the
indebtedness of said district, incurred in the-erection of a
schoolhouse in said district by said district school board of
trustees.

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

Chap. 199.—An ACT authorizing the voters of Dinwiddie county to
vote for a fence law by magisterial district.

s
Approved March 3, 1882.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be the
duty of the judge of the county court of Dinwiddie, upon
the petition, in writing, of twenty-five qualified voters in any
magisterial district in the county: provided that this act
shall not apply to New Hope precinct in Namozur magiste-
rial district; which petition may be presented, either in term
or vacation, to order the several officers conducting elections
in su@b dixtrict, at the times and places for holding the first
general election thereafter, to prepare a separate ballot-box
for each voting precinct, in which shall be deposited the bal-
lots of the then qualified voters, who shall desire to vote
upon the question of continuing or repealing the act passed
January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, rela-
ting to fences and for the protection of crops.

2. The said ballots shall be respectively as follows: “For
fence law;” “against fence law:” provided that notice of the
time and places of voting upon said question shall be given
by posting the same at the front door of the courthouse of
the county, and at each voting precinct of such district, at
least thirty days prior to said election.
3. The manner of receiving and canvassing the ballots
cast at such election, on said question, and making returns and
abstracts of the results thereof, shall conform in all respects
to the regulations prescribed by the general election law of
this state, except that the certificates of the judges of election
shall be as follows: We hereby certify that at the election
held , —— votes were cast for a fence law, and
— votes against a fence law.

A. B.,) Giorks E. F.,

C.D. 5 77ers® G. H., } Judges.

LJ

J,

If from such returns and abstracts of votes, so cast
on the question aforesaid, it shall appear that a majority
of the qualified voters voting upon the question, are in favor
of a fence law, then the fence laws of the state shall be in
force in the district within six months after said vote has
been taken.

4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.

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

Chap. 199.—An ACT to return to the public free schools a portion of
the moneys diverted therefrom.

Approved April 21, 1882,

Whereas the board of public works of Virginia, by con-
tract dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
one, sold to U. L. Boyce and F. J. Kimball, acting for them-
selves and their associates, all the rights, title, ant interest of
the siate of Virginia in, or to, or against the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad company, by virtue of the cove-
nant or mortgage executed by said company, dated Decem-
ber twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, upon certain terms as
to payment, and subject to the ratification of the general
assembly ; and whereas afterwards, to-wit, on the tenth da
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Clarence ih
Clark, on behalf of himself and his associates, including said
Boyce and Kimball, became the purchasers of the said Atlan-
tic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad at a foreclosure sale thereof,
made under decree of the ninth day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-nine, in the United States circuit court for
the eastern district of Virginia, in the cause of Frances
Skiddy and others, trustees, versus the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad company and others, therein pending, and
said parties proceeded to reorganize said railroad company
under the name of the Norfolk and Western railroad com-
pany, whereby, and by virtue of sundry assignments, the bene-
fits of said contract of February tenth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, now enure and belong to said Norfolk and
Western railroad company; and whereas by an act passed
— day of ——, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the gen-
ral assembly of Virginia has ratified and‘confirmed said con-
tract, and allowed the Norfolk and Western railroad company
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, to complete the payment of said five hundred thousand
dollars to the board of public works of Virginia; and
whereas out of the revenues assessed for the years eighteen
hundred and seventy to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
inclusive, a sum amounting to one million five hundred and
four thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-
seven cents, and dedicated by sections seven and eight of
article eight of the constitution of Virginia, to the public
free school fund, was diverted to other purposes prior to the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, as appears by reference to
senate document number twelve, Senate Journal, and so
forth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine—eighty, whereof
np to the present time the sum of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars due to the public free school fund, have
been restored to said funds; and whereas the general assem-
bly conceives it to be its paramount duty, under the consti-
tution, to restore to said public free school fund as speedily
as possible, the amount so as aforesaid from it diverted;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That whenever
the said Norfolk and Western railroad company shall pay
unto said board of public works the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars, aforesaid, or any part thereof, it shall be
the duty of the board of public works to pay the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars, part thereof, into the treasury
to the credit of the public free school fund, and subject to
the draft of the state board of education, at the rate of one
hundred thousand dollars per annum, to be expended by said
board for purposes of public education, and apportioned
ratably among the school districts of this state as current
revenue for similar purposes are apportioned.

2. The remaining one hundred thousand dollars of the sum
so paid, shall be paid into the treasury on special deposit,
subject to the future action of the general assembly, the
same being intended for the erection and maintenance of a
normal school for colored teachers to be hereafter established.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
repealed. )

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.

CuHar. 100.—An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Mining, Manu-
facturing, and Warehouse company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That L. W. Reid, H. Grafton Dulaney, W. H. Marbu
George EK. French, Peyton Randolph, Courtland H. Smith,
W. M. S. Dunn, Robert Portner, John W. Burke, John S.
Barbour, Arthur Herbert, E. L. Daingerfield, James H. Reid,
John B. Smoot, and Linden Kent, and their associates and
successors, be and they are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate and politic by the name and style of the
Alexandria Mining, Manufacturing, and Warehouse company,
and by that name and style shall have all the rights and
privileges conferred, and be subject to all the provisions of
chapters fifty-six, fifty-seven, and sixty one of the Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same may
be applicable to and are not inconsistent with the provisions
of this act.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
twenty-five thousand nor more than five million of dollars,
divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and for the
purpose of obtaining subscriptions to said capital stock, any
three of the persons named in the foregoing section, may
open books of subscription at such times and places as they
may appoint.
7. That for convenience of access to such mines or improve-
ments, the said company shall also have authority to con-
struct, equip, and operate one or more rail or tramways,
with all necessary sidings and branches (the latter not to
exceed fifteen miles in length), from any of said mines, fur-
naces, mills, or structures, to such point or points of conveni-
ent connection with each or any line of railway in Virginia,
as the said company shall determine; and for that purpose
may acquire title in the mode prescribed by law, and such
additional lands as may be necessary for the use of said roads
and tracks, and for the buildings and works of said company.

8. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect its railways with any line of railway, con-
structed or which may be constructed in this state, upon
such terms as may be agreed upon between it and such other
railway company, and for this purpose power is hereby
granted to it, and to any railroad company incorporated by
this state, to make and carry out such contracts, by lease,
purchase, or otherwise, as will facilitate and consummate
such connection or consolidation.

9. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company, with
which said Alexandria mining, manufacturing, and ware-
house company may conncct, is hereby authorized to sub-
scribe to the capital stock of said company, and the stock so
subscribed shal] have the same privileges and powers, and be
subject to the same conditions and regulations, as the stock
held by other stockholders therein.

10. The said company is hereby authorized to subscribe to
the capital stock of any railroad company chartered by the
state, which may have been constructed, or may hereafter
be constructed. It is also authorized to acquire, by purchase
or otherwise, stock or bonds of any such railway company,
and further authorized to receive subscriptions to its capital
stock from any corporation chartered under the laws of the
state of Virginia.

11. The said company is also authorized, from time to
time, to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for
its purposes, and for such loans to issue its bonds, bearing
interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum; to sell,
exchange, and hypothecate said bonds, on such terms as it
may deem advisable, and to secure the said bonds and inter-
est thereon by deed of trust or mortgage, conveying its
works, property, and franchises, in whole or in part.

12. That the president and directors of said company may
enact such by-laws and regulations, for the management of
the affairs of said company, as they may deem expedient,
the rame being consistent with the constitution and laws of
the state and of the United States.

13. That the shares of said company shall be deemed per-
sonal property, and assignable as such on the books of the
said company, under such rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the directors, who shall have power, from time
to time, to increase the capital stock of said company, so
that it shall not exceed five millions of dollars as aforesaid.
14. The principal office of said company shall be located
in the city of Alexandria.
15. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CuaP. 101.—An ACT to authorized the school trustees in Manassas
magisterial district, in Prince William county, to devote a certain
sum from the county school funds due said district for eighteen hun-
cred and eighty-one, to the payment of certain indebtedness of said

istrict.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the district school trustees of Manassas magisterial district,
in the county of Prince William, be and are hereby author-
ized to devote the sum of two hundred and thirty-five dol-
lars from the county school fund, due said district for the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the payment of the
indebtedness of said district, incurred in the-erection of a
schoolhouse in said district by said district school board of
trustees.

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