Chap. 268.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 18t section of chapter 102
of the Code of Virginia, for the restraint and destruction of dangerous
and noxious animals.

Passed February 28, 1867. _

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of chapter one hundred and two of the Code of Vir-
ginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Ҥ1. Any justice, on proof that a horse afflicted with
glanders or farcy, is permitted by the owner or keeper thereof,
wilfully or negligently, to go out of his stable or enclosed

rounds, or to run at large, shall order such horse to be killed,
and to be buried (with the hide on) four feet deep, at the ex-
pense of said owner or keeper, having first given to the owner
of such horse, or to his agent, if any there be, resident in the
county or corporation, five days’ notice of the time and place,
when and where such order is proposed to be made. And
such owner or keeper, or any person who had owned said
horse and parted with him, having knowledge that he was so
afflicted, shall forfeit not less than twenty dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars, to the use of the commonwealth.”

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

Chap. 268.—An ACT to incorporate the Fairfax and Georgetown Turn-
pike Company.

Passed February 28, 1867.

1. Be it ‘enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books for receiving subscriptions, to an amount
not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, in shares of
twenty-five dollars each*to constitute a joint capital stock for
constructing a turnpike road from Fairfax courthouse to
some point on the Potomac river, near peorgetown, 1 in the
District of Columbia. —

2. That the said ‘books shall be opened under the superin-
tendence of W. D. Shepherd, Daniel I. Dulany, William L.
Edwards, M. D. Ball, John Powell and John Bartlett and
others, or any two of them, at such times and places, and
through such agents as they, or any two of them, may desig-
nate..

3. That when five thousand dollars of said capital shall be
subscribed, then the subscribers, their executors, administra-
tors or assigns, sball be and they are. hereby incorporated
into a company by the name and style of the Fairfax and
Georgetown Turnpike Company, subject to all the provisions
of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and
sixty, in relation to turnpike companies, so far as the same
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.

AY