Chap. 98.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 74 of an act entitled: An
act to put in effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating to
the creation, appointment and organization of the State Corporation Commis-
sion, its jurisdiction, powers, functions, and duties; the qualifications of
members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location
of its officers, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes,
orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judg-
ments, and its expenses, ete., approved April 15, 1903.

Approved February 29, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventy-four of an act entitled “an act to put in effective operation the
provisions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment
and organization of the ‘State corporation commission,’ its jurisdiction,
powers, functions, and duties; the qualification of the members and
officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its
offices, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes,
orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and
judgments, and its expenses,” etcetera, approved April fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and three, ne amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§74. That so much of the act entitled “An act to authorize the
James River and Kanawha company to make the sale and transfer
of all its works, property, and franchises to the Richmond and Alle-
ghaney railroad company, and to define the powers and duties of the
board of public works in reference thereto,” approved February twenty-
seventh, eighten hundred and seventy-nine, as has not been carried into
effect, shall continue in force, and the commission shall exercise all the
powers and perform all the duties conferred and imposed upon the
board of public works by the said act, which shall further include au-
thority, upon application of any parties interested, after due notice tc
parties in interest, to judicially hear and to determine whether or not
any obligation or duty imposed by the said act upon the purchaser there-
under, or its successor in title, has been sufficiently complied with, or
otherwise discharged, and what constitutes such compliance or discharge.