Chap. 327.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901, entitled an act to
incorporate the New River, Holston and Western railroad company.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections six
and ten of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January
fifteenth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act to incorporate the New River,
Holston and Western railroad company be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 6. For the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad it
shall be lawful for anv county, city or town in Virginia, through or near
which said railroad shall pass, to subscribe to the capital stock of the
said company in the manner and in the amounts prescribed and fixed
hy the general law in reference to such subscriptions; and it shall be
lawful for Bland county to subscribe an amount not execeding thirty
thousand dollars to the capital stock of said company.

§ 10. In organizing the said company the persons named in this act
shall constitute the first board of directors. and shall serve until the
first mecting of the stockholders, and the said ineorporators may act and
receive subscriptions to the capital stock at any time and place, and when
twenty-five thousand dollars is subscribed they shall convene the stock-
holders and organize said company. At said meeting one of their number
shall preside, and the chairman and secretary of said meeting shall certify
on the books of the company to the legal organization of said company.

2. Provided, that said railroad shall he completed to Rocky Gap, in
the county of Bland, within ten years from the first day of January, nine-
teen hundred and two.

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3. This act shall be in force from its passage.