Chap. 679.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1243 of the code, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact
section 1243 of the code so as to allow the counties of Floyd, Carroll,
and Grayson to subscribe to the capital stock of the Blue Ridge railroad
company,” approved February 17, 1898.

Approved March 2, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve hundred and forty-three of the code, as amended and re-enacted
hy an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section twelve hun-
dred and forty-three of the code so as to allow the counties of Floyd,
Carroll, and Graysofi to subscribe to the capital stock of the Blue Ridge
railroad company,” approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1243. The county court of any county, or the council of any city
or town, may make an order requiring the sheriff or sergeant, and judges
of election, at the next general election for state, city, town, county,
or district officers, or at any other time, not less than thirty days from
the date of said order, which time shall be designated therein, to open
poll and take the sense of the qualified voters on the question, whether
the board of supervisors or council, shall, on behalf of such county, city
or town, subscribe to the stock of any internal improvement company
named in the order which has been incorporated by the general assembly.
The said order shall state the maximum amount proposed to be sub-
scribed, which shall in no case exceed one-fifth of the total capital stock
of said company, or an amount, the interest upon which, at the rate
authorized by the council of such city or town, or the board of super-
visors of such county, shall not require the imposition of an annual
tax in excess of twenty cents on the one hundred dollars: except and
provided, however, as to the counties of Floyd, Carroll, and Grayson,
that the county courts of said last named counties, at the request of the
president or of any two of the directors of the Blue Ridge railroad com-
pany, may make and enter an order requiring the sheriff and judges of
election in their said counties, at a time to be designated in said order,
not less than thirty days from the date of said order, to open the polls
at each voting precinct in the county in reference to which such order
is made, and take the sense of the qualified voters on the question
whether or not the board of supervisors of such county shall on behalf
of such county subscribe the amount stated in said order, not exceeding
the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to the capital stock of the said
Blue Ridge railroad company: and provided further, that prior to every
election held under this act in either of the counties of Floyd, Carroll, or
Gravson, the said Blue Ridge railroad company shall deposit with the
county court of the county in which such election is to be held a sum
sufficient to cover the costs of such election. The elections provided
for in this act shall be held according to the law in force at the time of
holding such election; except in so far as it may be modified and amended
by this act.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-

ealed.

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