Chap. 103.—An ACT to incorporate the Great Republic Gold and Silver
Mining Company.

Passed January 25, 1867.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
William B. Rogers, Simon’ Stone, Cicero Burrus, J. W.
Whitehurst and W. H. C., Ellis, and their associates, succes-
sors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated and
made a body politic and corporate, under the name and style
of The Great Republic Gold and Silver Mining Company, for
the purpose of mining, smelting, manufacturing and selling
ores, earth and minerals of every description; and they are
hereby invested with all the rights, powers and _ privileges,
and subjected to all the rules and regulations prescribed by
the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh chapters of the Code of Vir-
ginia, for the government of such bodies politic and corpo-
rate, so far as the same may be applicable to and fot incon-
sistent with the rights and powers herein granted.

2. The capital stock of said company shall-not be less than
two millions dollars, to be divided into shares of not less
than twenty-five dollars each. They shall have the right to
purchase, hold and sell lands not exceeding six thousand acres
at any one time. :

3. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to any alterations, amendments or modifications, at
the pleasure of the general assembly. ,