Chap. 82.—An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to
the stock of the Madison courthouse and Orange railroad on certain
conditions.

Approved February 3, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the county court of Madison county to
make an order requiring the sheriff not earlier than the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
and not later than the second Tuesday in November, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-three, at a time designated in said
order, not less thirty days from the date thereof, to open polls
and take the sense of the voters of said county on the ques-
tion whether the said county shall subscribe to the stock of
the Madison courthouse and Orange railroad company to an
amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for the said
county in bonds of the seid county, bearing interest at six
per centum per annum, and to be paid in the manner now
provided by law for the payment of such subscriptions; but
the said subscriptions are to be subject to the condition that
such bonds for one-half of the amount so subscribed, are to
be delivered to the said company only when the work of
building the said road shall be so far advanced that its road-
bed shall be completed and in readiness to receive iron rails
on every part thereof; and the residue of the said bonds is
to be so delivered when the road shall be fully completed and
equipped for the regular transportation of freights and pas-
sengers.

2. The said election shall be conducted and the ballots cast
thereat shall be counted, returned, and canvassed in the man-
ner prescribed in chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three.

3. Ifit shall appear by the report of the board of commis-.
sioners appointed to count the said ballots, that three-fifths
of the qualified voters of the said county 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, and a majority of all the registered voters of
the said county, the said county court shall,.at its next ses-
sion, enter an order requiring the supervisors of the county
to attend on a day and at a place named in the order to carry
out the wishes of the voters as expressed at said election.

4, This act shall be in torce from its passage. ,