Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend the Ist and 2d sections of an act passed
-. 24th January, 1867, entitled an-act tc incorporate the Glade Spring and
Laurel Railroad Company gin the County of Washington. :

Passed February 13, 1867.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That the first
and second sections of an act passed twenty-fourth January,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Glade Spsing and Laurel railroad company, in the
county of Washington, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows: | :

“$1. Be it enacted by the ‘general assembly, That it shall
be lawful to open books of subscription in the town of
Abingdon, in the county of Washington, upon ten days no-
tice, under the direction of George R. Barr, James K. Gib-
son, Arthur C. Cummings, William Y.C. White, James C.
Campbell, John W. Johnston, 8. W. Carnahan, Noble J.
McGinnis and Henry C. Gibbons, or either of them; at Glade
Springs depot, under the superintendence of ‘William Dick-
inson, B. K. Buchanan, William A. Stuart, Mat. H. Buchanan,
Jonas Kelly, James K. Rambo, Micajah McCormack, Robert
Clark, William B. Byars and James P. Strother, or either of
them; at the house of Henry Mock, on the Laurel, and under
the superintendence of Henry Mock, Valentine Rosenbalm,
John M. Wright, John O’Neal, Peter Mock, James Ramsey,
Samuel Buchanan, John Horn and J. Neil, or either of them;
and at such other places, and under the charge of such agents
as any three of the commissioners aforesaid may select for
Yeceiving subscriptions of stock, in shares of one hundred
dollars each, to an amount not less than fifteen thousand and
not to exceed fifty thousand shares, to constitute a joint
capital stock for the purpose of constructing a railroad from
a point connecting with the Virginia and Tennessee railroad,
either at the town of Abingdon or at Glade Spring—such
point to be designated by the board of directors named in
the second section of this act—to the line between, Virginia
and Tennessee on the Laurel, there to connect with a survey
of a railroad through Johnston county in the state of Ten-
nessee, in the direction of Charlotte, North Carolina.

‘““§2. Whenever one thousand shares of the stock shall
have been subscribed by good and solvent persons, and gua-
ranteed to be paid either in money, land, (the land not to be
more than five miles from the line of the railroad), salt, plas-
ter or iron—the value of the land and property subscriptions
to be fixed by disinterested commissioners, to be appointed
for that purpose by such directors as the company in their
organization may elect. The stockholders and their succes-
sors shall be and are hereby incorporated into a company, by
the name and style of The Washington and Laurel Railroad
Company; subject to all the provisions and entitled to all
the benefits and powers conferredgy the provisions of chap-
ters fifty-six and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia, so far
as the same may be applicable to and not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act.” \
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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