Chap. 108.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections a and 3, chap-
ter 94 of Acts 1881~-’2, of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
Richmond Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company.

Approved February 12, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
O. H. Russell, Warren Russell, John T. Jones, George H.
Jewett and J. W. Jones, or a majority of them, their associates,
successors or assigns, or such of them, and such other persons
as may become stockholders, be and they are hereby incorpo-
rated a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, under
the name, style and title of the Richmond Coal Mining and
Manufacturing Company, and by that name shall have peérpet-
ual succession, and be able and capable in law, to take, receive
and hold in fee simple or otherwise, lands, tenements, and es-
tates therein in fee simple, or for less estates, personal and all
other property, by deed of conveyance, lease or otherwise;
and may improve, sell, lease, exchange, mortgage or dispose
of the same, or any part thereof, as may be necessary and ex-
pedient for the purposes thereof; may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity; may have a
common seal, which they shall have the power to alter and
renew at pleasure; may receive, execute, and deliver all such
instruments of writing as may be necessary, and to do all such
acts and things as may be necessary or expedient to assist and
promote the objects and designs of the said company, and
generally to possess and enjoy all the privileges incident toa
corporation. Whenever twenty-five thousand dollars of the
stock shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their execu-
tors, administrators or assigns, shall be permitted to organize
the said corporation, and the said corporation may then com-
mence its operations.

§3. That the said company shall have the right from time to
time to purchase, lease, hold and convey coal, mineral, and
other lands situate in the counties of Goochland, Henrico,
Chesterfield and Powhatan: provided such lands in fee simple
in any county in the state of Virginia shall not exceed five
thousand acres; from time to time to mire coal, iron ore, fire-
clay, limestone and other mineral products of their lands; to
manufacture iron and steel, and other metals, and articles com-
posed wholly or partly of iron or steel, to cut and manufacture
timber, and prepare the same for market, sell and transport
the same, and to store, deal and traffic in such commodities as
shall be deemed advantageous for the successful prosecution of
their business; to erect blast-furnaces, rolling-mills, forges,
mills, machinery, fixtures, buildings, and the necessary appur-
tenances required in the conduct of their business, and to
make leases or contracts for these or any of these purposes.
And all taxes and dues to the state from the Richmond Coal
Mining and Manufacturing Company shall be paid in currency
and not in coupons.