Chap. 390.—An ACT to Incorporate the Boydton and Ridyeway Turnpike
Company.

Approved November 2, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the follow-
ing named persons, viz: J. A. Cheatham, J. D. North, H. C.
Cunningham, L. R. Exlim, William Boyd, Dr. Wm. H. Jones,
Col. Vanzant, George B. Finch, A. T. Johnston, their associ-
ates, successors, and assigns, are hereby constituted a body

olitic and corporate, under the name of The Boydton and

idgeway Turnpike Company, with power to make by-laws
for its government, provide for election of directors and all
other officers, and with all other privileges and incidents be-
longing to corporations, under chapter sixty-one of the revised
Code of Virginia, or any other general law of the state which
may at any time be passed. :

2. Said corporation shall have power to make and keep in
repair a turnpike road running from Ridgeway, in the county
of Warren, North Carolina, to Boydton, in the county of Meck-
lenburg, Virginia; the dimensions and’ mode of construction
of said road to be determined by the directors of the company.

3. Whenever any land or right of way shall be needed by
said company for the purpose of constructing its road, or to
supply stone, gravel, or other material, if the parties cannot
agree, the same may be taken at a valuation to be made by a
commission of five treeholders, to be chosen by any two jus-
tices of the peace of the county where the land lies, or by the
county commissioners thereof, which valuation, made on oath,
shall be returned to the clerk of the county and be recorded.
On payment of the valuation, or tender thereof, or in case the
owner does not reside in the county, on deposit of the same in
the office of the clerk of the county court, the said land or right
ot way, 80 valued, shall vest in the company so long as it shall
be used tor the purposes thereof. Either party may appeal
from the decision of the commissioners, but no proceeding had
under this section shall hinder or delay the company from car-
rying on its work. Ten days’ notice of the time and place of
the meeting of the commissioners shall be given, or if the
owner of the land does not reside in the county, then ten days’
advertisement in a newspaper published in the county, or if
there be none, then at the courthouse door and two other pub-
lic places in the county, shall be sufficient notice. The right
of condemnation shall not, except for material for construction,
include more than thirty feet on each side of the centre of the
road, but for toll-houses not exceeding one acre may be taken:
provided, that this right of condemnation shall not include any
yard, garden, orchard, or burial ground.

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