Chap. 95.—JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the senators and
representatives in congress from Virginia to procure an impost duty
levied on foreign sumac.

Approved February 14, 1882.

Whereas a very large proportion of the uncultivated lands
of Virginia naturally produces, in abundance, a fine quality
of sumac, the gathering and manufacture of which already
employs considerable labor and capital; and whereas about
one-half of the sumac used in the United States is produced
by the pauper labor of Italy, and imported into this country
at the insignificant tariff rate of ten per centum ad valorem;
and whereas this “infant industry” of the state eminently
deserves to be encouraged and protected, to the end that
wild and waste lands might be cultivated in the production
of sumac, and a flourishing agricultural and manufacturing
interest therein be established, as well as that a superior
article should thus be obtained; therefore, (the house of del-
egates concurring, )

Be it resolved by the general assembly, That our senators
in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested,
to use their utmost efforts to procure a protective impost
duty levied on all sumac grown or manufactured in foreign
countries.
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and

Chap. 95.—An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow-
Gauge railroad company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for books of subscription to be opened
under the direction of the following persons named in this
section, who are hereby appointed commissioners: P. Fleet-
wood, J.S. Ellis, R. W. Arnold, John W. Bailey, W. H. Turner,
B. D. Tillar, B. F. Jarrett, and John J. Deyer, of Virginia ;
W. G. Sheen, Edward Dexter, James P. Chaplin, Frederick
Mills, S. H. Kimball, and Clarence H. Knight, of Boston,
Massachusetts, and Clinton Roosevelt, of New York, for the
purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the capital stock of the
Atlantic and Danville railway company.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
two hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty
dollars each ; but may be increased from time to time to such
an amount as the board of directors may determine. The
above-named persons, or any three of them, may open said
books of subscription at such times and places along the line
of the said railway and at such other places as they may
elect.

3. Any mining, manufacturing, railroad, or other corpora-
tion chartered by the state of Virginia, may subscribe to
the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville railway com-
pany.

4. Whenever fifty thousand dollars of the capital stock of
said company shall have been subscribed other than by rail-
road or internal improvement companies, and five per centum
thereof shall have been paid thereon, the persons named in
the first section of this act, and their associates, successors,
and assigns, who may become stockholders, shall be and are
hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate under the
name and style of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Com-
pany, and shall be entitled to all powers, authorities, and
privileges contained in all general laws of the state of Vir-
ginia applicable to railway companies, and be subject to all
the limitations and restrictions imposed by said laws, which
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

5. The first meeting of the stockholders for the organiza-
tion of said company shall be held at such time and place as
may be determined upon by the commisssioners appointed to
receive subscriptions, or a majority of them, present in per-
son, or by proxy, of which time and place of meeting notice
thereof shall be given by publication for two successive
weeks in a newspaper published in the city of Richmond,
and by such other notification as the said commissioners
may deem proper. In all stockholders’ meetings a quorum
to do business shall consist of a majority of the capital
stock. Each share of stock, upon which all assessments (due
at the time of meeting) have been paid, shall be entitled to
one vote, either in person or by proxy.

6. The said Atlantic and Danville railway company shall
be and is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, con-
struct, build, equip, operate, and maintain a railway, the
gauge of which shall be three feet, with such number of
tracks as the said corporation may desire, and for that pur-
pose shall be entitled to acquire title to a continuous line of
one hundred feet in width of land, with such additional land
as may be necessary for the use of said railway, from the
most available point at deep water, on the James river, within
the county of Surry, and passing through or near the town
of Waverly, Sussex county; thence by the most direct and
practicable route, to a point at or near the town of Belfield,

reenaville county; thence by the most practicable route, to
& point at or near Brunswick courthouse; thence by the most
Practica route, toa point at or near Boydton, county of

ecklenburg; thence by the most practicable route, to a
point at or near the city of Danville. Said company is also
authorized and empowered to construct and operate branch
roads, not exceeding twenty miles each in length, from any
point or points on the main line of the said railway.

7. The board ot directors shall consist of five directors,
one of whom shall be elected president. The directors and
president shall hold their offices for one year, or until their
successors are elected. A majority of the board of directors
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business
which could be transacted by a full board.

8. The board of directors, acting with the consent and by
the authority of the stockholders, in any meeting called for
that purpose, in which a majority of the capital stock shall
be represented, are hereby authorized to borrow, from time
to time, such sums of money as may be necessary for the
completing, equipping, furnishing, operating, and maintain-
ing the said railway, and to issue bonds of said company,
bearing interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum,
and to sell such bonds at such discount as may be thought
by said directors to be for the benefit of said company; and
to mortgage the corporate property, real and personal, earn-
ings, and franchises, or convey the same by deed of trust to
secure the payment of any debt contracted by said company
for the purposes aforesaid. Any bonds which may be dis-
poses of at a less rate than par, shall be as valid and as

inding upon said company as if the same were sold for the
par value thereof.

9. The following counties through which the said railway
shall be constructed, to-wit: Brunswick, Greenesville, Meck-
lenburg, Surry, and Sussex, are hereby authorized to sub-
scribe, according to the forms prescribed by the Code of Vir-
ginia of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to the capital
stock of the said Atlantic and Danville railway company, to
an amount not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars per
mile, for each and every mile of railroad the said company
may construct within the limits of the said counties respec-
tively: provided that no part of said subscription made by
any of the said counties shall be due or payable until it shall
be certified that one mile or more of the said railroad shall
have been graded, and the track luid thereon in accordance
with the provisions of the tenth section of this act.

10. That it shall be the duty of the county courts of the
several counties named in the preceding section of this act,
at the request of the said railway company, or the board of
supervisors of any of the said counties, to appoint a com-
missioner, who, after the commencement of the work of con-
struction in the county, by the said company, shall report to
the county court, upon each court day, the number of miles
of railroad which the said company has graded and laid the
track thereon. Said report shall be certified at once to the
board of supervisors of the county, and thereupon the said
board of supervisors shall issue or cause to be issued and
deliver to the said railway company, bonds of the county,
bearing interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, of
such denominations as the said railway company may desire,
in payment for said subscription for every mile of railroad
which, by said report, appears to be graded, and to have the
track substantially laid thereon. The compensation of said
commissioners shall be fixed by the courts appointing the
same, and shall be paid by the Atlantic and Danville railway
company.

11. Provided that before the rights hereby conferred shall
become vested, and before the actual work of construction
shall commence other than upon land purchased or owned
by the said company, there shall be deposited with the treas-
urer of the commonwealth, under his official bond, twenty
thousand dollars, either in money or bonds, approved by the
treasurer, to be held by such officer to the credit of the

resident and board of directors of the said Atlantic and

anville railway company, and subject to their order, when
and only after the like amount of twenty thousand dollars
has been expended upon said railroad, and the same so cer-
tified to the treasurer of the commonwealth by the railroad
commissioner, whose duty it shall be to make such examina-
tion and certificate without delay upon application.

12. The said company is hereby, authorized to build and
construct, at the i ames river terminus of its railway,
wharves, piers, warehouses, and such other constructions as
may be necessary for the convenient and safe loading,
unloading, shipping, receiving, and storing all kinds of per-
sonal property and merchandise.

13. The work of construction shall be commenced within
two years, and shall be completed within ten years, from the
passage of this act.

14. The principal office of the said company shall be
located at the town of Waverly, or at some other point on
the line of the said railway.

15. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 95.—JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the senators and
representatives in congress from Virginia to procure an impost duty
levied on foreign sumac.

Approved February 14, 1882.

Whereas a very large proportion of the uncultivated lands
of Virginia naturally produces, in abundance, a fine quality
of sumac, the gathering and manufacture of which already
employs considerable labor and capital; and whereas about
one-half of the sumac used in the United States is produced
by the pauper labor of Italy, and imported into this country
at the insignificant tariff rate of ten per centum ad valorem;
and whereas this “infant industry” of the state eminently
deserves to be encouraged and protected, to the end that
wild and waste lands might be cultivated in the production
of sumac, and a flourishing agricultural and manufacturing
interest therein be established, as well as that a superior
article should thus be obtained; therefore, (the house of del-
egates concurring, )

Be it resolved by the general assembly, That our senators
in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested,
to use their utmost efforts to procure a protective impost
duty levied on all sumac grown or manufactured in foreign
countries.
r)
and

Chap. 95.—An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow-
Gauge railroad company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for books of subscription to be opened
under the direction of the following persons named in this
section, who are hereby appointed commissioners: P. Fleet-
wood, J.S. Ellis, R. W. Arnold, John W. Bailey, W. H. Turner,
B. D. Tillar, B. F. Jarrett, and John J. Deyer, of Virginia ;
W. G. Sheen, Edward Dexter, James P. Chaplin, Frederick
Mills, S. H. Kimball, and Clarence H. Knight, of Boston,
Massachusetts, and Clinton Roosevelt, of New York, for the
purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the capital stock of the
Atlantic and Danville railway company.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
two hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty
dollars each ; but may be increased from time to time to such
an amount as the board of directors may determine. The
above-named persons, or any three of them, may open said
books of subscription at such times and places along the line
of the said railway and at such other places as they may
elect.

3. Any mining, manufacturing, railroad, or other corpora-
tion chartered by the state of Virginia, may subscribe to
the capital stock of the Atlantic and Danville railway com-
pany.

4. Whenever fifty thousand dollars of the capital stock of
said company shall have been subscribed other than by rail-
road or internal improvement companies, and five per centum
thereof shall have been paid thereon, the persons named in
the first section of this act, and their associates, successors,
and assigns, who may become stockholders, shall be and are
hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate under the
name and style of the Atlantic and Danville Railway Com-
pany, and shall be entitled to all powers, authorities, and
privileges contained in all general laws of the state of Vir-
ginia applicable to railway companies, and be subject to all
the limitations and restrictions imposed by said laws, which
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

5. The first meeting of the stockholders for the organiza-
tion of said company shall be held at such time and place as
may be determined upon by the commisssioners appointed to
receive subscriptions, or a majority of them, present in per-
son, or by proxy, of which time and place of meeting notice
thereof shall be given by publication for two successive
weeks in a newspaper published in the city of Richmond,
and by such other notification as the said commissioners
may deem proper. In all stockholders’ meetings a quorum
to do business shall consist of a majority of the capital
stock. Each share of stock, upon which all assessments (due
at the time of meeting) have been paid, shall be entitled to
one vote, either in person or by proxy.

6. The said Atlantic and Danville railway company shall
be and is hereby authorized and empowered to locate, con-
struct, build, equip, operate, and maintain a railway, the
gauge of which shall be three feet, with such number of
tracks as the said corporation may desire, and for that pur-
pose shall be entitled to acquire title to a continuous line of
one hundred feet in width of land, with such additional land
as may be necessary for the use of said railway, from the
most available point at deep water, on the James river, within
the county of Surry, and passing through or near the town
of Waverly, Sussex county; thence by the most direct and
practicable route, to a point at or near the town of Belfield,

reenaville county; thence by the most practicable route, to
& point at or near Brunswick courthouse; thence by the most
Practica route, toa point at or near Boydton, county of

ecklenburg; thence by the most practicable route, to a
point at or near the city of Danville. Said company is also
authorized and empowered to construct and operate branch
roads, not exceeding twenty miles each in length, from any
point or points on the main line of the said railway.

7. The board ot directors shall consist of five directors,
one of whom shall be elected president. The directors and
president shall hold their offices for one year, or until their
successors are elected. A majority of the board of directors
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business
which could be transacted by a full board.

8. The board of directors, acting with the consent and by
the authority of the stockholders, in any meeting called for
that purpose, in which a majority of the capital stock shall
be represented, are hereby authorized to borrow, from time
to time, such sums of money as may be necessary for the
completing, equipping, furnishing, operating, and maintain-
ing the said railway, and to issue bonds of said company,
bearing interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum,
and to sell such bonds at such discount as may be thought
by said directors to be for the benefit of said company; and
to mortgage the corporate property, real and personal, earn-
ings, and franchises, or convey the same by deed of trust to
secure the payment of any debt contracted by said company
for the purposes aforesaid. Any bonds which may be dis-
poses of at a less rate than par, shall be as valid and as

inding upon said company as if the same were sold for the
par value thereof.

9. The following counties through which the said railway
shall be constructed, to-wit: Brunswick, Greenesville, Meck-
lenburg, Surry, and Sussex, are hereby authorized to sub-
scribe, according to the forms prescribed by the Code of Vir-
ginia of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to the capital
stock of the said Atlantic and Danville railway company, to
an amount not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars per
mile, for each and every mile of railroad the said company
may construct within the limits of the said counties respec-
tively: provided that no part of said subscription made by
any of the said counties shall be due or payable until it shall
be certified that one mile or more of the said railroad shall
have been graded, and the track luid thereon in accordance
with the provisions of the tenth section of this act.

10. That it shall be the duty of the county courts of the
several counties named in the preceding section of this act,
at the request of the said railway company, or the board of
supervisors of any of the said counties, to appoint a com-
missioner, who, after the commencement of the work of con-
struction in the county, by the said company, shall report to
the county court, upon each court day, the number of miles
of railroad which the said company has graded and laid the
track thereon. Said report shall be certified at once to the
board of supervisors of the county, and thereupon the said
board of supervisors shall issue or cause to be issued and
deliver to the said railway company, bonds of the county,
bearing interest not exceeding six per centum per annum, of
such denominations as the said railway company may desire,
in payment for said subscription for every mile of railroad
which, by said report, appears to be graded, and to have the
track substantially laid thereon. The compensation of said
commissioners shall be fixed by the courts appointing the
same, and shall be paid by the Atlantic and Danville railway
company.

11. Provided that before the rights hereby conferred shall
become vested, and before the actual work of construction
shall commence other than upon land purchased or owned
by the said company, there shall be deposited with the treas-
urer of the commonwealth, under his official bond, twenty
thousand dollars, either in money or bonds, approved by the
treasurer, to be held by such officer to the credit of the

resident and board of directors of the said Atlantic and

anville railway company, and subject to their order, when
and only after the like amount of twenty thousand dollars
has been expended upon said railroad, and the same so cer-
tified to the treasurer of the commonwealth by the railroad
commissioner, whose duty it shall be to make such examina-
tion and certificate without delay upon application.

12. The said company is hereby, authorized to build and
construct, at the i ames river terminus of its railway,
wharves, piers, warehouses, and such other constructions as
may be necessary for the convenient and safe loading,
unloading, shipping, receiving, and storing all kinds of per-
sonal property and merchandise.

13. The work of construction shall be commenced within
two years, and shall be completed within ten years, from the
passage of this act.

14. The principal office of the said company shall be
located at the town of Waverly, or at some other point on
the line of the said railway.

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