Chap. 16.—An ACT to incorporate the Luray Valley Railroad. Company.

Approved March 8, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful to open books of subscription for the capital
stock of a company to be incorporated by the name of The
Luray Valley Railroad Company, for the purpose of construct-
ing a railroad from such point in the dividing line between
Frederick or Clarke county in Virginia, and Berkeley or Jef-
ferson county in West Virginia, as may be the terminus to
which a railroad from the Potomac river through either Berke-
ley or Jefferson county shall hereafter be made or located,
(being 8 contemplated extension of the line of the Cumber-
land Valley railroad in Pennsylvania,) to or through either
the town of Winchester in Frederick, or the town of Berry-
ville in Clarke county, as may be elected by the company,
thence to the mouth of Page Valley, at or near Front Royal,
and thence to or near Luray, and thence to or near Salem in
Roanoke county, on the Virginia and Tennessee railrqad, on
the west of the Blue Ridge, or such intermediate point in the
line of the Valley railroads, as may be chosen by said com-

any, with a branch from some suitable point on said road to

arrisonburg in Rockingham county; also, a branch from
some suitable point on said road via Stanardsville in Greene
county, to Gordonsville in the county of Orange; also, a
branch from some suitable point on said road to the town of
Lexington in the county of Rockbridge.

2. Be it further enacted, That the following persons are ap-

pointed commissioners to receive such subscriptions, namely :
Villiam L. Clark, Robert Y. Conrad, Charles LL. Crum, John
F. Wall, and William R. Denny, to open books and receive
subscriptions at Winchester; S. J.C. Moore, William N. Nel-
son, John J. Riely, Angus W. McDonald, Sr., and Champ
Shepherd, to open books and receive subscriptions at Berry-
ville; James ‘a Richards, Thomas N. Ashby, Isaac N. King,
Marcus Buck, and Charles White, to open books and receive
subscriptions at the town of Front Royal; Peter B. Borst,
George W. Rust, Thomas M. Almond, Reuben P. Bell, and
Isaac Long, to open books and receive subscriptions at the
town of Luray; Archibald Graham, John J. Lafferty, Francis
T. Anderson, Alexander M. Glasgow, and Marshall McDonald,
to open books and receive subscriptions at Lexington; D. F.
Haynes, George W. Kemper, Henry Harnsberger, Joseph D.
Craig, and Robert S. Harnsberger, to open books and receive
subscriptions at Port Republic in Rockingham county; John
J. Bell, Robert G. Bickle, William J. Nelson, William Chap-

-man, and Absalom Koiner, to open books and receive sub-
scriptions at Staunton, A majority of the commissioners
appointed at each place respectively, may act as if alone
named. The commissioners (or a majority of them) appointed
for Winchester, or Berryville, are further authorized, either in
person or by an agent or agents by them appointed, to open
books and receive subscriptions, to be made by individuals -or
corporations, at any place or places out of this state; and sub-
scriptions to said capital stock, by any other railroad compa-
nies domiciled either without or within this state, are hereby
allowed to be made and received in the discretion of said
Winchester or Berryville commissioners.

3. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said
company shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars,
nor more than five millions of dollars, to be divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each. Whenever the said first
mentioned amount shall be subscribed, the subscribers shall
be incorporated by the name, and for the purpose mentioned
in the first section of this act, and have full power and au-
thority to effect the same, subject to the provisions of the
Code of Virginia, and any general law which may hereafter
be passed, applicable to such corporations: provided, that in
order to secure the rights and franchises contained ‘in this
charter, such organization shall be perfected, and the con-
struction of the road commenced, within five years from the
passage of this act.

4. The said company may, by demising its road-works, sub-
scriptions or property, or any other form of contract, procure
or permit the construction, transportation, and business of its
road, or any part of the same, or either, to be done by any
other railroad company, and upon such terms in regard to
risks, expenses, benefits, and other particulars as may be agreed
upon between the companies, or the company may hire rolling
stock from any other railroad company.

5. The company hereby incorporated shall have the right to
make convenient connections with any other road or roads at
Winchester, Berryville, and at théir southern terminus.

6. When the company shall have completed and equipped
their said road from the line of West Virginia to any other of.
the above-named points in this state, they are hereby autho-
rized to work the same as if entirely finished.

7. This act shall take effect from and after-the passage
thereof.