Chap. 131.—An ACT to incorporate the Hanover Coal Company.

Passed J anuary 29, 1867.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Edward W. Talman, Walter Mead, Lindley Murry and Geo.
H. Talman, and such other persons as may hereafter be asso-
ciated with them, be and they are hereby created and incor-
porated and made a body politic and corporate, under the
name and style of The Hanover Coal Company, of the coun-
ties of Hanover and Henrico, for the purpose of mining for
coal, iron and other ores, and manufacturing the same and
transporting the same to market from the said counties of
Hanover and Henrico; and they are hereby invested with all
the rights and privileges and powers conterred, and subject
to all the provisions and restrictions imposed on such bodies
politic and corporate by the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh chap-
ters of the Code of Virginia.

2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said
company shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars
nor more than one million of dollars, to be divided into
shares of fifty dollars each; and the said company shall have
authority to purchase and hold lands, not exceeding three
thousand acres at any one time, in the counties of Hanover
and Henrico, and may sell and convey the mene or lease or
encumber the same.

' 3. Be it further enacted, That the said sempany shall
have authority to clear all timber from their lands and trans-
port the same to market; to build saw-mills, boats, barges,
steamers and sail vessels, and tse the same in connection with
their mining business, and the transportation of coal and
other minerals and materials to market; to construct a tram
or railroad, with the necessary: cars and engines for the same,
upon their lands, and from thence to the city of Richmond,
with the consent of the owners of the land over which the
road shall.pass, or to connect their said railroad with any
other railroad or canal in the state of Virginta, first having
obtained the consent of the proper authorities of said rail-
road or canal to make said connection, for the purpose of
such transportation and ‘for the use of the said company;
and, in general, to do and “perform all acts and business of
the company aforesaid, which, as an incorporated company
by the laws of this state, they may do and perform; and that
the said company shall have five years from and after the
passage of this act to organize under its provisions.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to amendment, alteration or modification, at the plea-
sure of the general assembly.