Chap. 78.—An ACT to authorize a subscription by the counties of
Cumberland and Powhatan to the stock of the Farmville and Pow-
hatan Railroad Company.

Approved February 5, 1886.

Whereas it appears, that qn the fourth day of November,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, a poll was taken in the
county of Cumberland on the question of subscription of forty
thausand dollars to the stock of the Farmville and Powhatan
railroad company, a corporation of the state of Virginia: and
whereas it appears, that it was the will of the people that such
subscription should be made by the board of supervisors, and
that those voting therefor were more than three-fifths of the
qualified votes df the county, and that the said three-fifths
included a, majority of the votes cast by freeholders: and
whereas the commissioners failed to report the same to the
court at its next session, as required by law, and there being
no record of an order of the court to require the supervisors
of the county to carry out the will of the voters as expressed
at the election, there is a question as to the validity of the
bonds proposed to be issued in accordance with arforder of
the court at a subsequent session ; and whereas in the county
of Powhatan, on the fourth day of November, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, a poll was likewise taken on the question
of subscription of forty thousand dollars to the stock of the
Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, a corporation of
the state of Virginia: and whereas it appears, that the com-
missioners appointed in the order of court requiring said poll
to be taken (not being notified), failed to meet two days after
said poll was taken, as required by law, to count the ballots,
and it is believed, but not positively known, that such failure
defeated the will of the people, and that it is the wish of three-
fifths of the qualified voters of the county, and that said three-
fifths included a majority of votes of freeholders, that said
subscription should be made; and whereas it is difficult, except
at general elections, to get such full vote as is required under
the general law, and there being no such election for two years,
and such delay will be burdensome to the people in said
counties of Powhatan and Cumberland: therefore

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the counties of Powhatan and Cumberland may each subscribe
forty thousand dollars of the stock of the Farmville and Pow-
hatan railroad company; and that polls shall be taken in said
counties, in the masner set forth in sections sixty-two and
sixty-three of chapter sixty-one Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three; and if it shall appear by the report of the board
of commissioners, appointed for the purpose, that three-fifths
of the qualified voters of the said counties voting upon the
question are in favor of the subscription, and that said three-
fifths includes a majority of the votes cast by freeholders at
such election, the county courts of each county shall, at their
next session, enter of record an order requiring the super-
visors of said counties, at their next regular meetings, or ad-
journed meetings thereof, to carry out the wishes of the voters
as expressed at said elections. Thereupon the said board of
supervisors shall appoint agents to make subscriptions, which
subscriptions shall be paid as called for by the Farmville and
Powhatan railroad company, in bonds of the said counties,
conditioned as follows: the rate of interest on said bonds shall
be six per centum per annum. The interest on said bonds, re-
spectively, shall only commence from the dates of the comple-
tion of the railroad from the Richmond and Danville railroad
to the court-houses of the respective counties. The principal
of the said bonds shall be due in thirty years: provided a rail-
road is built across said counties; but the bonds shall be void,
and as if they had never been made, unless the road is com-
pleted across said counties within the time specified in the
charter of the said Farmville and Powhatan railroad, to-wit
before March third, eighteen hundred and ninety. Said bond:
shall be signed by the president or chairman of board of super:
visors, and attested by the clerk of the county court.

2. Work shall-commence on said Farmville and Powhatar
railroad within two years from this date.

3. All’acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, so fa!
as the same are inconsistent with this act.

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