Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend the Charter of the Longdale Iron
Company.

Approved February 18, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act, approved June twenty-seventh, eightcen
hundred and seventy, entitled an act to incorporate The
Wetumpka Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company, as
amended by an act, approved February twenticth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, entitled an act to amend and re-
enact the first and fourth sections of an act to incorporate
The Wetumpka Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company,
approved June twenty-seven, cighteen hundred and seventy,
and to change its name, and the third section of the act,
approved June twenty-seventh, cighteen hundred and
seventy, entitled an act to incorporate The Wetumpka Iron
Mining and Manufacturing Company, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That William
Firmstone, of Easton, Pennsylvania; Ario Pardee, of Hazle-
ton, Pennsylvania; J. Gillingham Fell; F. A. Comly, and
Henry LU. Wilson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and such
other persons as now are or may be hereafter associated
with them, shall be and are hereby incorporated and made
a body politic and corporate by the name and style of Tho
Longdale Iron Company, for the purpose of mining iron and
other ores, transporting and selling the same, and of work-
ing the same into pig iron, steel or otherwise; and also 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 also for the purpose of
mining coal in this state or elsewhere, and transporting,
using, selling or otherwise disposing of the same, either in
its raw state or after being converted by them into coke;
and are hereby invested with all the rights and privileges,
and subject to all the rules, regulations, and restrictions
(consistent with this act) contained in the Code of Virginia.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the said company
shall have the right to acquire by purchase, gift, devise,
trust or other legal means or conveyance, estate, real, per-
sonal, and mixed, in this state or elsewhere, and hold, use,
possess, and enjoy the same, and the same may sell, alien,
grant, lease, and convey: provided, that the lands held by
them in fee or otherwise in this state shall not exceed alto-
gether, at any time, two hundred thousand acres, nor more
than eighty thousand acres in any one county of the state:
and provided further, that nothing herein contained is in-
tended to confer upon said company any privileges, powers or
rights in any other state, inconsistent with the laws or policy
of such state. And tho said company shall have power to
make and use a common seal, and the same to change at
will, and to have all such other powers, rights, and privi-
leges as are necessary and proper for them to have and pos-
sess as an incorporated company, subject to the restrictions
in the first section of this act.

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