Chap. 140.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an act to In-
corporate the Abingdon and Rich Valley Turnpike Company, in the
county of Washington, passed February 16, 1867.

Approved June 17, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That an act passed
February the sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, en-
titled an act to incorporate the Abingdon and Rich Valley
Turnpike Company, in the county of Washington, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That for the

urpose of constructing a turnpike road from the town of Ab-
ingdon, in the county of Washington, to a point on a new lo-
cation lately made for a road from Saltville to the Abingdon
and Russell turnpike, not west of White’s mill nor east of J.
W. Davis's farm, in the Saltville valley—the route of said road
between the divergence and terminus to be selected and fixed
upon by a majority of the stockholders hereinafter incorpo-
rated, it shall be lawful to open books for receiving subscription
to the amount of two thousand dollars of capital stock, divided
into shares of ten dollars each. ,

“The said books shall be opened under the superintendence
of Joseph E. C. Trigg, Adam Shultz, A. C. Thompson, New-
ton K. White, Wm. J. Hayton, James C. Ineson, Robert
Preston, Wm. Y. C. White, Dr. E. M. Campbell, James K.
Gibson, John R. Cardwell, James Henritze, and James C.
Greenway, or any three of them, at either Abingdon or A. M.
Shultz’s, and at such other places, under the direction of such
other commissioners as a majority of the above-named com-
missioners may appoint; and it shall be lawful for said com-
misioners to receive subscriptions, payable in money, labor (to
be done on said road), or any article of merchandise, trade, or
other property, common and saleable in the county, at such
price and payable at such ¢imes as may be agreed upon at the
time the subscription is made between the commissioners and
the subscribers. When stock to the amount of five hundred
dollars shall have been subscribed by good and solvent per-
sons, the stockholders, their executors, administrators, auth as-
signs shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company
by the name and style of The Abingdon and Rich Valley
Turnpike Company, subject to the provisions of the Code of
Virginia and the general laws at present in force and hereafter
enacted by the general assembly.

‘““§ 2. Be it further enacted, That so soon as the sum of seven
hundred and fifty dollars of the capital stock shall have been
subscribed, it shall then be lawful for the stockholders of the
said company, after one month’s Punic notice given, to assem-
ble at the town of Abingdon and elect three superintendents
of the said road, whose duty it shall be to let to contract and
superintend the construction and making of the same. The
said stockholders shall also have power to make such by-laws
and appoint such officers as they may deem necessary and
proper in the construction of the works.

“The said company shall appoint a surveyor or engineers to
survey, grade, and locate the said road, at a grade not to ex-
ceed four degrees, nor of a less width than twenty feet, except
on hill-sides where digging is necessary, and at such places to
be at least fifteen feet wide. The said company shall com-
mence the construction of said work within one year from the
passage of this act, and complete the same within two years
thereafter.”

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