Chap. 145.—An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Alexandria and Frede-
ricksburg Railway Company.

Approved June 4, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the forfeiture of the charter of the Alexandria and Fredericks-
burg railway company, incurred by reason of the failure of
said company to complete said railway within the time speci-
fied in section four of its act of incorporation, passed February
third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be and is hereby waived,
and that extension of time for building said railway be granted
as follows: that the work on said railway shall be resumed
within one year, and the same shall be completed within three
years, from the passage of this act, and that the said company
be and is hereby authorized to extend said railway to a point
on the Potomac river between Alexandria and Washington
city, or opposite Washington city, and to bridge said river so
far as the state of Virginia can authorize the same, or to con-
nect with the bridge of any railroad company, that may have
been or may hereafter be chartered by the congress of the
United States, whose road passes or shall pass through the
District of Columbia: provided, that in the extension of said
railway, it shall in no way interfere with the chartered rights
or franchises of any railroad extending between Alexandria
and Washington; but this proviso shall not be construed as
preventing said Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway from
crossing any such railroad.

2. Be it further enacted, That the said Alexandria and Frede-
ricksburg railway company be authorized, at their option, to
make the connection of their railway with that of the Rich-
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company at the
most eligible point on the present railroad from Acquia creek
to the city of Fredericksburg, or on any lawfully authorized
branch thereof, north of said city: provided, that the said rail-
way shall be constructed from its junction with the Rich-
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad to Alexandria,
before its construction shall be commenced north of Alexan-

ria.

3. Be it further enacted, That the second section of the
said act of incorporation, passed February third, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, shall be so amended.as to read as fol-
lows:

Ҥ 2. That whenever two thousand shares of said stock
shall have been subscribed, and ten per centum thereon paid in
good faith, the subscribers, their successors, executors, and as-
signs, shall be and are hereby declared and constituted a body
politic and corporate, under the name and style of The Alex-
andria and Fredericksburg Railway Company, and shall be
subject to all the provisions of the Code and general laws of
Virginia applicable to such corporations: provided, that the
rates of charge for the transportation of passengers and freight
upon the said railway, to or from the city of Alexandria,
shall not be ratably higher or other than upon passengers and
freight passing over said railway and destined to or coming
from the cities of Washington, D. C., and Baltimore, Mary-
land.”

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