Chap. 136.—An ACT to Amend tbe Act entitled An Act to Amend and
Re-enact an Act entitled An Act to Charter the Richmond and Penin-
sula Railway Company.

In force March 4, 1872.

Whereas, James Lyons, Joseph R. Anderson, Thomas H.
Wynne, H. G. Fant, and E. S. Hamlin, became corporators of
the Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company, and organized
the said railway company according to its charter, and desire
to admit other corporators for the purpose of completing the
said railway, but in order to do so it 1s necessary that the time
for completing it should be extended, and provision made for
admitting the said additional subscribers, nothing having been
done under the amendatory act aforesaid, and the said E. S.
Hamlin has assigned to the said Lyons, Anderson, Wynne,
Fant, and Samuel Ward, and Robert E. Randall, all his inte-
rest in the said company: therefore,

“8 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the said
James Lyons, Joseph R. Anderson, Thomas H. Wynne, H. G.
Fant, Samuel Ward, Robert IE. Randall, and their associates,
be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic
and corporate, by the name and style of the Richmond and
Newport News Railway Company, and have, possess, and enjoy
all the rights, privileges, and immunities which were conferred
upon the Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company by its
charter and the acts amendatory thereof.

Ҥ 2. That the said corporation may receive subscriptions
to its stock, not exceeding three millions in amount, and may
sell any number of shares of stock which may be necessary to
complete the amount of three millions: provided, the same
shall not be sold for less than its par price.

“8 3. All forfeitures which may have been incurred by the
said Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company are hereby
released to the Richmond and Newport News Railway Com

oy 4. The said Richmond and Newport News Railway Com-
pany may purchase any connecting railroad which may be
useful to it as a part of its line, or unite and consolidate with
it: provided, that such consolidation shall be approved, and
such agreement ratitied and confirmed by a majority of the
stockholders of each of the companies proposed to be consoli-
dated, present or represented at any annual meeting thereof,
or at a meeting of said stockholders called for the purpose,
public notice having been given in one or more of the daily
papers of the city of Richmond, of the time and place of hold-
ing the same, and the object thereof.

“3 5. The said Richmond and Newport News Railway Com-
pany shall be allowed until the first day of July, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, to complete its railway to the city of
Williamsburg, and until the first of July, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, to complete it to Newport News; and may
purchase, hold, and convey real and personal estate, exclusive
of its railway, depots, and running stock, to the amount of
one million of dollars.

“8 6. The said railway company shall be subject, in all
respects, to the general railroad law of Virginia, except so far
as hereinbefore provided.

“s 7. This act shall be in force f from its passage.”