Chap. 121.—An ACT incorporating the Cedar Run Mining Company in
the counties of Madison and Page.

Passed January 28, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That William
R. Robson, John W. Miller, John R. Strother, Benjamin H.
Shackleford, and such other persons as may be associated
with them, or their successors, under the power of this act,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body
politic and corporate, under the name and style of Cedar
Run Mining’ Company, for the purpose of mining, raising
and smelting copper and other minerals, and purchasing and
holding lands, personal property, machinery and constructing
houses and roads, and a railroad to Culpeper courthouse, or
any other point on the Orange and Alexandria railroad: pro-
vided, the right of way is purchased from or granted by the
owners, for the working and transporting said mines and
minerals in the counties of Page and Madison; and they are
hereby invested with all the rights and privileges and powers
conferred on such bodies politic by the Code of Virginia.

2. The capital stock of said company shall nat be less than
fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty
dollars each; and the said company shall have the right to
purchase and hold land in the counties of Madison, Page and
Rappahannock, not exceeding ten thousand acres.

3. ‘This act shall be in force from its passage.