Chap. 109.—An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke street railway com-
pany, and to make valid the acts of said company under a charter
heretofore granted to it by the judve of the hustings court of the
city of Roanoke.

Approved May 2, 1857.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Thomas Lewis. J. F. Christian, M. H. Clayton, W. P. Huff,
C. Markley, J. F. Brinkley, LL. H. Cocke, W. H. Stoll, William
F. Baker, J. A. Gale. and their associates and successors, be
and are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name
and style of the Roanoke street railway company.

2. The said company shall have power and authority to
construct, equip, maintain, and operate a street railway along
the streets of the city of Roanoke, with the consent of the
common council of said city, and to any point within the
county of Roanoke, with the consent of the county court
thereof..

3. It shall be lawful for said company to transport passen-
gerr, freight, and baggage over the line of their railway, and
to collect fare and tolls for the same; and may use horse,
steam, or electric power to propel the cars upon its road.

4. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
ten thousand dollars nor more than one hundred thousand
dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

9. The said company may acquire and own real estate not

to exceed five hundred acres, and shall always have its prin-
cipal office in the city of Roanoke.
_ 6. Said company shall bave power and authority to lease
its road, and to borrow money for the use of the corporation,
and to secure such loans by deed of trust on all or part of its
estate and franchise and income.

7. The following named corporators shall constitute the

oard of directors, and until their successors are elected by
the stockholders, shall manage the affairs of the company,
to-wit: Thomas Lewis, M. H. Clayton, W. H. Stoll, W. P.
Huff, C. Markley, W. F. Baker, and J. A. Gale.

8. And whereas a charter of incorporation was granted to
the corporators hereinbefore named, by the judge of the bus-
tings court for the city of Roanoke, on the twenty-sixth day
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, under the
same name. for the same purposes, and to the same effect, as
ig granted by the foregoing sectious of this act; and whereas
some doubts have been suggested whether the judge of the
said court had the power to grant said charter, now therefore
for the purpose of settling such doubts, and curing all defects
in the proceedings and transactions of said company :

9. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all acts, proceedings. transactions, contracts and agreements,
done and entered into by the aforesaid parties, in the name
of the Roanoke street railway company; and all titles and
rights of every kind whatsoever by said company under its

said charter, not otherwise illegal or inconsistent with the
laws of this State, from and after the said twenty-sixth day
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall be
held and taken to be and to have been from the date afore-
said, of the same force, virtue, and effect, in all respects, as if
said charter were clearly and in every respect certainly valid
and no doubt bad ever been suggested as to the lawful au-
thority thereof, and as if the said charter bad originally been
granted by an act of assembly of this State.

10. This charter is granted upon the condition that the
company aforesaid shall pay all its taxes, levies. and dues
due to the State, or which may hereafter be assessed against
it, in lawtul money of the United States and not in coupons.

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