Chap. 223.—An ACT incorporating the Potomac Railroad Company.

Passed February 21, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Elliott M.
Braxton, John L. Marye, Jr., R. W. Wheat, Hugh Hammill.
B. G. Baldwin, Claiborne R. Mason, W. Rh. ‘Johnson, Jr., IL
P. Mason, W. Ww, Finney and Benjamin F. Ficklin, their as.
sociates and successors, shall be and are hereby created 2
corporation, by the name of The Potomac Railroad Com-
pany, for the purpose of constrcting a railroad from some
point on the Richmond, Fr edericksburg and Potomac rail-
road, at or near Fredericksburg, to the city of Alexandria.

2. The capital stock of the company shall not exceed two
millions of dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each. When one hundred thousand dollars
thereof are subscribed, the subscribers may organize the
company, and exercise the functions of a cor poration in ac-
cordance with the provisions applicable thereto in the Code
and statutes of Virginia: provided, that if the “Alexandria
and Fredericksburg railroad company” shall, before the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, fully satisfy
the Board of public works that said company has complied
with the terms of its incorporation, and is prepared and ac-
tually engaged in the work to prosecute and finish the con-
struction of the railroad as provided for in its act of incor-
poration, then, and in that case, this act shall be and become
void.

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