Chap. 219.—An ACT to ratify and confirm the lease of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley com-
pany.

Approved May 14, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the lease made by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway com-
pany to the Newport News and Mississippi Valley company
of its railroad, property, and rights, bearing date on the fif-
teenth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be and
the same is hereby ratified and confirmed: provided how-
ever, that the said Newport News and Mississippi Valley
company shall pay all taxes assessed upon its property or the
property of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company in
lawful money and not in coupons.

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