Chap. 186.—An ACT authorizing Railroad Companies to subscribe for and
hold stock in the Virginia Express Company. ,

Passed February 9, 1867. f

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That any rail-
road company may subscribe for and hold stock in the Vir-
ginia express company: provided that the amount so sub-
scribed for and held, whether of preferred or general stock,
shall not exceed in amount twenty thousand dollars: pro-
vided, also, that any railroad company accepting the provi-
sions of this act, shall thereby come under the provisions of
the general. railroad law in regard to the tariff of tolls, as
prescribed in the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, or any
other law or laws that may hereafter be passed by the gene-
ral assembly in relation to the tariff of tolls to be charged
by railroad companies: provided that any railroad company,
or other party subscribing for preferred stock in the Virginia
express company, may vote thereon as if the same were
capital stock. fo se

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