Chap. 424.—An ACT Incorporating the Cu!peper and Madison Turnpike
Company.

Approved November 5, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That for the pur-
pose of constructing a turnpike road from the town of Cul-
peper, in Culpeper county. to some point intersecting the Blue
Ridge turnpike at some point between Madison courthouse
and Criglersville, in Madison county, it shall be lawful to open
books of subscription to an amount not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars, to be divided in shares of fifty dollars each; the
said books shall be opened at Culpeper, under the direction of
Charles Warte, J. T. Starke, J. B. Gorrell, E. B. Hill, and Dan-
iel A. Grimsley; at Brown’s store, under the direction of M. A.
Bickers, A. R. Yates, James Shotwell, John Brown, and John
S. Kemper; at Decapolis, Madison county, under the direction
of Richard Early, Joshna Miller, John T. Carpenter, Daniel
T. Cuyler, and E. D. Frey; at Criglersville, Madison county,
under the direction of Mann Strickler, David Story, William
Homes, Mason Bohannon, and Frank Finks; at Madison court-
house, under the direction of Theophilus Smoot, F. H. Hill,
Joel Cline, John Clow, and Finks Blankinburker, any three of
whom may act at either place, and at such other place or places,
and under the directions of such agents as any three of the
above named commissioners may appoint.

2. When two hundred shares shall have been subscribed, the
subscribers, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall
be and are hereby incorporated into a company, by the name
and style of The Culpeper and Madison Turnpike Company,
conformable to the provisions of the Code of Virginia and acts
amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto: provided, that
said company shall not be required to pave or cover their road
with stone or gravel, nor to make a summer road or side road;
that the said road shall be cleared at least thirty feet wide and
constructed at least eighteen feet wide: provided also, that the
subscribers to the stock of said company may, at the election
of the shareholders, pay the amount of their subscription, or
any part thereof, either in money or in labor, work and services,
at such rates or price as may be fixed by the board of directors
of said company.

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