Chap. 289.—An ACT to incorporate the Potomac and Alexandria Rail-
road Company. |

Passed March 2, 1867.

1, Be it enacted by the general assemlly, That Charles
Marshall, William A. Taylor, John B. Dangerfield, Claiborne
R. Mason, William W. Finney, Benj. F. Ficklin and P. T.
Sutton, their associates and successors, shall be and are hereby
created a corporation, by the name of The Potomac and
Alexandria Railroad Company, for the purpose of construct-
ing a railroad from some point on the Potomac river, at or
near a point opposite the city of Georgetown, in the District
of Columbia, to the city of Alexandria.

2. The said railroad shall be open to the use of any. rail.
road company heretofore or hereafter chartered by the state
of Virginia; and the engines and trains of any such company
may pass over it upon such terms and according to such
schedules as may be agreed upon with said Potomac and Alex-
andria railroad company; or in case of any failure to agree,
thereupon such terms and according to such schedules as the
Board of public works may from “time to time ‘prescribe ;
and if at any time hereafter a bridge shall be built across the
Potomac river, at or near the terminus of the said Potomac
and Alexandria railr oad, so as to allow a connection by rail-
road between the two sides of the river, the said Potomac
and Alexandria railroad shall in like manner be open to the
use of all or any of the railroad companies on either side of
the river, desiring to make the connection north and south
by means of said railroad, upon such terms and according to
schedules to be agreed upon or prescribed-as hereinbefore
provided. To this end, it shall be the duty of the said Po-
tomac and Alexandria railroad to provide all such tracks,
sidings, switches and other conveniences as may from time to
time be found requisite; and if at any time a question shall
arise as to what is proper to be done in that behalf, the same
shall be determined by the Board of public works, who shall
have full power and authority to prescribe and enforce what
may be necessary.

3. The capital stock of the company shall not exceed one
million 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 com-
pany and exercise the function of a corporation, in accord-
ance with the provisions applicable thereto in the Code and
statutes of Virginia.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.