Chap. 29.—An ACT te Amend the Act of the General Assembly, passed
March 20th, 1867, entitied An Act Incorporating the Radford Iron
Company, and for other Purposes.

In force Jannary 19, 1872.

1 Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That c
the act passed March the twentieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, entitled an act incorporating the Radford Iron $8
Company and for other purposes, be amended and re-enacted °
so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That 5
John B. Radford, Edward Hammett, W. E. Eskridge, Albert ¢
G. Pendleton, L. T. Wattson, Charles Wood, John Fulton, G. P
C. Wharton, J. G. Cecil, J. A. Walker, Richard Wood, David
Scull, C. J. Worrell, Percival Roberts, and such persons as may
be hereafter associated with them, be, and they are hereby,
created and incorporated and made a body politic and corpo-
rate, under the name and style of the Radford Iron Company
of Virginia, for the purpose of mining for coal, iron, or other
ores, and manufacturing the same, or working old iron in any ®
manner whatever ; and with the privilege and right to make, or
to assist other joint stock companies, corporations, or associa- f
tions of individuals in making, such dams, locks, tramways, 5
railroads or canals, leading from or by their furnace or fur-
naces, to connect with other roads, tramways or canals, as may
be essential or advantageous to their said operations: provided
that no railroad hereby authorized shall exceed eighty miles in 1
length. And the said Radford Iron Company may, for the *
purposes above indicated, subscribe to, purchase and hold
shares in the capital stock of any company or corporation, or °
association of individuals, now in existence, or which may be n
hereafter formed, for building any such dams, locks, tramways,
railroads or canals; and said company shall have all the facili- ¢
ties necessary and essential to carry on its operations in P
accordance with general laws on such subjects, and shall be —
subject to all the provisions and restrictions contained in the s
fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh chapters of the Code of eighteen °
hundred and sixty.

§2. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said company c
shall not exceed four millions, in shares of one hundred dollars
each, books of subscription to be opened at such times and
places as any three or more of said persons may determine;
and the said company shall have authority to purchase and r
hold lands not exceeding fifty thousand acres, and may sell,
convey, lease, or encumber the same.

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