Chap. 418.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to
charter the Stock Creek Coal and Iron company, approved March
I9, 1884. ;

Approved. March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of an act approved March nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to incorporate the
Stock Creek coal and iron company, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. The said company is authorized and empowered to pur-
chase, hold, own, lease and control, in any manner, grant, bar-
gain, sell, mortgage, convey, and otherwise dispose of real and
personal estate in this state or elsewhere; and the said com-
pany is authorized and empowered to lay out said’ lands, or
any part thereof, into parcels or lots of convenient size, with
interyening roads, lanes, streets and alleys, and develop, work,
improve and cultivate, or otherwise dispose of the same, in
such manner and upon such terms as the said company may
think proper; and may contract for, purchase, operate, lease,
hold, construct, and maintain any work of public or private
improvement in this, or elsewhere, with the right and power of
laying out, constructing and operating: any railroad or rail-
roads, or other road, from any of the lands or works of said
company to any point on the Norfolk and Western railroad,
the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad, or any other railroad
that is now or may hereafter be constructed in or through the
counties of Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Dickenson, Scott, Russell,
Tazewell and Washington: provided, however, that no such
road or railroad shall be constructed or operated as aforesaid,
except in the counties: above named, nor shall any such rail-
road be constructed or operated by said company to the line
between Tennessee and Virginia, nor within five miles of such
line; and provided, further, that nothing in this section shall
be construed as exempting the said company from the provis-
ions of chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, if it shall engage in constructing or operating
any work of internal improvement in this state: provided fur-
ther, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent
the said company from constructing a railroad through and in
the counties of Scott and Washington, to the town of Good-
son, in the county of Washington.

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