Chap. 532.—An ACT to amend the second and twelfth sections of chap-
ter 95, Acts of 1881-2, entitled an act to incorporate the Atlantic and
Danville Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, and to add an additional
section thereto.

Approved March 18, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two and twelve of an act to incorporate the Atlantic
and Danville railroad company, approved April twenty-first,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than two hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of
one hundred dollars each, but may be increased from time to
time to such an amount as the board of directors may deter-
mine, not exceeding five millions of dollars. The above
named persons, or any of them, may open said books of sub-
scription at such times and places along the line of the said
railway, and at such other places as they may elect.

§ 12. The said Atlantic and Danville railroad company is
authorized and empowered to build and construct, at its ter-
minus on the James river, wharves, docks, warehouses, ele-
vators, and cotton presses, suitable for the accommodation of
steamships and vessels, and for the convenience of shipping.
transporting and storing of all kinds of merchandise and pro-
perty ; and said company may use, construct, purchase or

ire steamships and other means of transportation requisite
for its business.

2. That the said company, by the acceptance of this char-
ter, hereby agrees to pay all taxes, dues and demands due
the state that may be hereafter assessed against it in law-
ful money of the United States, and not in coupons: pro-
vided that in general meeting otf the stockholders of said com-
pany, no more stock shall be voted by the individual stock-
holder or corporation subscribing to the stock of said com-
pany, than has been paid up in full thirty days before the as-
sembling of the general meeting of said stockholders: and
provider further, that the commissioner appointed by the

oard of supervisors for the purpose of examining the road
built, and making report of the same to the county court,
shall not be a private stockholder, or in any way connected
with or interesjed in the road.
3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed: and provided further, that nothing herein
contained shall in any way interfere with any existing con-
tract between said railroad company and any county.

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