Chap. 281.—An ACT to incorporate the Clinch River Navigation Company.
Passed March 1, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
for the purpose of opening the Clinch river, from the mouth
of Guest’s river to a point at which the Virginia and Ken-
tucky railroad shall cross said Clinch river, in the county of
Scott, so as to admit-of the passage of flat or keel boats, it
shall be lawful to open books of subscription, for money,
labor or property, for the purpose of opening the same, in-
shares of ten dollars. The said books shall be opened at
Osborne’s Ford, under the superintendence of William H.
Roberson, Isaac Osborn, William Nash, Henry W. Osborn
and George W. Statton, or any three of them; at Stony
Creek, under the superintendence of John A. Mann, Emory
Cox, Charles P. Carter, William Frazier and Asberry Cox, or
any three of them; and at Mrs. Neil’s, under the
superintendence of Libourn H. Neil, Henry S. Carter, John
C. Taylor, Houston G. Neil and William G. Thomas, or any
three of them; and when property shall be subscribed, it
shall be lawful for the said commissioners to appoint two
disinterested freeholders at each of the places above named,
for taking subscriptions to value the property so subscribed.
_ 2. When fifty shares are subscribed. the subscribers, their
personal representatives and assigns, shall be and they are
hereby made a body politic and corporate, under the name
and style of The Clinch River Navigation Company; sub-

ject to all the provisions of the Code of eighteen hundred
and sixty in relation to such corporations.

3. A channel of at least twenty feet wide, and sufficiently
deep to admit of the passage of such boats, shall be opened
and cleared of all obstructions; the work to be commenced
within two years and completed within five years from the
passage of the act.

4, This act may be altered or amended by the general
assembly, and shall take. effect from the passage thereof.