Chap. 158.—An ACT to incorporate the Pittsylvania Salt and Coal Mining
Company.

Passed February 5, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Welling-
ton Witcher, M. M. Millner, S. P. Wilson, Stokeley Carter,
E. F. Keen, J. M. Walker, Thomas P. Atkinson, S. R. Pil-
son, David McKnight, William Robinson, W. T. Clarke and
W. W. Keen, or such of them as may choose to co-operate
for the purpose of, and others who may associate with them
under this aet, shall be and they are incorporated and made
a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Pittsylvania Salt and Coal Mining Company, for the purpose
of mining for and manufacturing salt, and fur,mining for coal
in the county of Pittsylvania; and they are hereby invested
with all the rights, powers and privileges conferred on such
bodies politic and corporate, and subject to all the restric-
tions’ and regulations in relation to joint stock companies
and corporations generally, contained in the Code of Vir-
ginia, and any law amendatory thereof, excepting where the
same may be inconsistent with this act.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be-less than
one thousand dollars, nor more than two hundred thousand
dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars
each.

3. The said: company shall have power to purchase and
hold lands, not exceeding five thousand acres, in the county
of Pittsylvania.

4. It shall be lawful for said company to construct a rail-
road from their lands to connect with, or by water to con-
nect with, other railroads that may consent to such connec-
tion: provided that the consent of the owners of the land
through which such railroad or water connection may be
made shall first be obtained. -

d. The office of the said company shall be in the town ot
Danville.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to amendment, modification or repeal, at the pleasure
of the general assembly.