Chap. 276.—An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Virginia Marble Company, approved March 30, 1870.

Approved March 25, 1902. , °

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Marble Company,
approved March thirtieth, cighteen hundred and seventy, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

<2. The said company is authorized to acquire title, either by lease or
absolute conveyance, to the lands on Goose creek, in Loudoun county,
containing the aforesaid marble beds or quarries, and likewise to pur-
chase or Jease such other lands or quarries in any of the States or terri-
tories of the United States, or in any foreign country, not exceeding in
all five thousand acres, and to cause the said quarries to be opened and
worked, and the marble and other stones and minerals to be transported
to market for sale, and to establish factories to manufacture and im-
prove the same in such manner as the said company may see fit; and
also to let or scll and convey such portions of said lands as may be con-
venient or necessary to be so used in the proper development of said
quarries,