Chap. 86.—An ACT to Authorize the Washington City, Virginia, Mid.
land and Great Southern Railroad Company to Issue Bonds to provide
for the Payment of the Bonds and Debts of the Orange, Alexandria
and Manassas Railroad Company, and of the Lynchburg and Danville
Railroad Company, and for other purposes.

Approved February 15, 1873.

Whereas, by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad
Company were authorized to issue bonds of said company to
an amount not exceeding six millions of dollars, and to secure
payment of principal and interest by one or more deeds of
trust or mortgages on the franchises, tolls, receipts, and whole
property, real and personal, of said company; and whereas,
since the passage of the above recited act, the Orange, Alex-
andria and Manassas Railroad Company have consolidated with
the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad Company, by virtue and
under the provisions of another act of the general assembly of
Virginia, approved January the fourteenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, and thereby became known as the Virginia
and North Carolina Railroad Company; and whereas, by a
subsequent act of the general assembly, approved fourth day
of February, eighteen hundred and seventy three, the said Vir-
ginia and North Carolina Railroad Company were authorized
to change their corporate name, and to assume the corporate
name and title of the Washington City, Virginia, Midland and
Great Southern Railroad Company:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
to enable the said Washington City, Virginia, Midland and
Great Southern Railroad Company to provide for the payment
ef the principal and interest of the bonds and other debts of
the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company, and
also of the principal and interest of the bonds and other debts
of the Lynchburg and Danville Railroad Company, and to en-
able the said Washington City, Virginia, Midland and Great
Southern Railroad Company to extend its road as authorized
by law, it shall be lawful for the said Washington City, Vir-
ginia, Midland and Great Southern Railroad Company to issue
its bonds to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars per mile of its existing main line and branches, and of
‘such further extension as may be authorized by law, and to
secure payment of the principal and interest of said bonds
hereby authorized to be issued, by. executing one or more
deeds of trust or mortgages on the franchises, tolls, receipts,
and whole property, real and personal, of said Washington
City, Virginia, Midland and Great Southern Railroad Company,
now owned, or which may be hereafter acquired by said Wash}
ington City, Virginia, Midland and Great Southern Railroad
Company, such bonds to bear interest at such rates, not ex-
ceeding that now allowed by law, as may be deemed expedient
by said Washington City, Virginia, Midland and Great Southern
Railroad Company.

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