Chap. 74.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Ist and 4tb Sections of an
Act to Incorporate the Wetumpka Iron Mining and Mannfacturing Com-
pany, approved June 27, 1870, and to Change its Name.

Approved February 20, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first and
fourth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the
Wetumpka iron mining and manufacturing company, approved
June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That William
Firmstone, of Easton, Pennsylvania; Ario Pardee, of Hazel-
ten, Pennsylvania; J. G. Fell, and F. A. Comly, of Philadel-
phia, Pennslyvania; and Samuel C. Robinson, of Richmond,
Virginia, and such other persons as may be hereafter associa-
ted with them, shall be and are hereby incorporated and made
a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The
Longdale Iron Company, for the purpose of mining iron and
other ores, transporting and selling the same, and of working
the same into pig iron and steel, or otherwise, and also for the
purpose of manufacturing iron or other ores in all the various
branches and uses for which iron and other ores are used, and
to transport and sell the same; and are hereby invested with
all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the rules, regu-
lations, and restrictions (consistent with this act) contained in
the Code of Virginia, in relation to such corporations.”

“$4. And be it further enacted, That the said William
Firmstone and Ario Pardee may put into the capital stock o!
the said company any lands purchased by them in the counties
of Alleghany and Rockbridge, and now owned by them, or
either of them, to be held in fee simple, or otherwise, by the
said company. And be it further enacted, That the said com.
pany shall have the power, and are hereby authorized, to locate
and construct one or more railroads, not to exceed twenty-five
miles in length, from their said mines and iron works, and con
nect the same with any railroad now made or to be hereafte
made; and for the purpose of so locating and constructing
said railroads, they shall have power and authority to survey
locate, fix, and determine such route or routes for said rail-
roads as they may deem expedient, or which may be necessary
for the construction and maintenance thereof. The said com-
pany may condemn, according to the laws of Virginia, land
for their roadway, depots, stations, or other necessary pur-
poses.”

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