Chap. 125.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections one and eight of
an Act passed sixth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, enti-
tled an Act to Incorporate the Norfolk and Great Western Railroad
Company.

Approved February 28, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first and eighth sections of an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the Norfolk and Great Western Railroad Company,
passed February sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be
re-enacted and amended so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful to open books of subscription in the city of
Norfolk, under the direction of George Blow, Jr., Wm. Lamb,
Gilbert C. Walker, W. C. Morrow and Charles Sharpe, or any
three of them; in the town of Portsmouth, under the direction
of G. W. Grice, G. M. Bane, Jr., Arthur Emmerson and
Thomas B. Butt, or any two of them; in the county of Nanse-
mond, under the direction of John R. Kilby, W. B. Whitehead,
Nat. Riddick aud T. J. Kilby, or any two of them; in the
county of Southampton, under the direction of P. J. Holmes,
S. B. Kello, Benjamin Pope, C. F. Urquart, or any two of them;
in the county of Greenesville, under the direction of John R
Chambliss, William 8. Godwin, John W. Potts, Edward C.
Land, or any two of them; in the county of Brunswick, under
the direction of J. Ravenscroft Jones, E. R. Turnbull, David
Meredith, W. H. Ih. Menith, or any two of them; in the county
of Mecklenburg, under the direction of William Townes, Wil-
liam D. Haskins, Robert Overby, Tucker Carrington, M. Alex-
ander, Jr., Thomas F. Goode, I. A. Rawlins, William Basker-
ville, Jr., or any two of them; in the county of Halifax, under
the direction of William Carrington, W. L. Owen, R. V. Wat-
kins, T. 5. Flournoy, or any two of them; in the county of
Pittsylvania, under the direction of E. F. Keen, S. D. Jones,
George C. Cabell, or any two of them; in the county of Henry,
under the direction of G. W. Booker, William Martin, J. M.
Smith, Christopher Thomas and J. W. Smith, or any two of
them; in the county of Patrick, under the direction of W. F.
B. Taylor, Samuel Staples, T. J. Penn, W. C. Staples, F. T.
Lawson, J. T. Barksdale, or any two of them; in the county of
Carroll, under the direction of L. F. Waltz, Jameg Early, Jones
Wilkinson, T. M. Dobyns and J. W. Green, or any two of
them; in the county of Floyd, under the direction of Joseph
L. Howard, Jackson Godby, Samuel Dobyns, J. W. William-
son, or any two of them; in the county of Grayson, under the
direction of James Anderson, J. M. Dickinson, William R.
Dickey, L. H. Brant, S. F. Anderson and J. W. Parsons, or
any two of them; in the county of Washington, under the di-
rection of Valentine Kebler, Philip Rohr, L. F. Johnson, or
any two of them; in the town of Danville, under the direction
of Thomas P. Atkinson, William T. Sutherlin, William T. Clark,
Harrison Robinson, John W. Holland, G. W. Read and Green
F. Pace, or any two of them; and in such other places, and
under the direction of such other agent or agents, as a majority
of the commissioners appointed for the city of Norfolk shall
designate, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to an
amount not exceeding ten millions of dollars, in shares of one
hundred dollars each, to constitute a joint capital stock, for the
purpose of constructing a railroad from the city of Norfolk
via Danville, to some point on the Virginia and Tennessee rail-
road, not east of Glade Springs, or on the state line of Ten-
nessee, not west of Bristol, and for providing every thing
necessary for convenient transportation on the same.

§8. That the said company shall have authority to make an
arrangement with the Norfolk and Petersburg, or any other
railroad company, east of Danville, for the use of its road from
any point, cast of Danville, to Norfolk, and such arrangement
shall release said company from its obligation to complete its
road to Norfolk within the time hereinafter specified : provided,
that if the said railroad company shall fail to build its road
through any county that has heretofore subscribed to its capi-
tal stock, or shall adopt any route which will not pass through
said county, then the subscription of said county, and the in-
dividual subscriptions made in such county, shall be void and of
no effect; and in such case the company shall re-convey all
lands granted to the company, in the way of subscription to its
capital stock, by individuals living in counties through which
said railroad shall not be constructed.

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