Chap. 173.—An ACT to incorporate the Granite Falls Manufacturing
Company. °

Passed February 8, 1867.

i. Bejt enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Lewis E. Harvie, John 8. Harvie, Thomas T. Giles, their
associates and successors, or a majority of them, are hereby
created and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
name and style of The Granite Falls Manufacturing Com-
pany, for the purpose of purchasing and holdirg real estate
and other property in the state of Virginia, and for the pur-
pose of manufacturing all. kinds of machinery and iron work,
and building and repairing work composed of iron and wood.
or either of them; and is hereby invested with all the rights,
powers and privileges, and made subject to all the rules,
regulations and restrictions provided and prescribed in the
Code of Virginia, so far as they are applicable to and not
inconsistent with the powers and rights herein granted. —

2. That the capital stock of the company shall not be less
than twenty thousand dollars, nor more than four hundred
thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each, and each stockholder shall be entitled*to one
vote in the meetings of the stockholders for every share of
stock held by him; and the said capital stock may be in-
creased by the company, from time to time, to the maximum
limit. |

3. That the company may hold lands, not exceeding two
acres in the city of Richmond, and fifty acres in the county
of Henrico; shall have authority to fix the number of direc-
tors, to make such by-laws and regulations as it may deem
necessary and proper for the management of its affairs, and
may hold its meetings either in the county of Henrico, the
city of Richmond or elsewhere in the state of Virginia, as
the said company may from time to time elect.
4, This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to amendment or repeal, at the pleasure of the gene-
ral assembly.

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