CHaP. 134.—An ACT to amend an act approved March 7, 1884,
entitled an act to incorporate the Rorer iron company.

Approved January 31, 1890.

Witereas the Rorer mining company has been organized
as a corporation under a deed of conveyance made by John
E. Penn and Lucien H. Cocke, special commissioners ap-
pointed by the corporation court of the city of Roanoke,
which deed bears date December first, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, and is recorded in the clerk’s office of
the corporation court of the city of Roanoke and in the
clerk’s office of the county court of Roanoke county, with
all the franchises, rights, and privileges of the Rorer iron
company, a corporation chartered by act of the general
assembly of Virginia, approved March seven, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections four, five, and nine of the said act entitled
an act to incorporate the Rorer iron company, approved
March seven, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. The said company may hold real estate in the county
of Roanoke or elsewhere in the state of Virginia not exceeding
twenty thousand acres in any one county.
§5. The principal office of the company shall be located
n the city of Roanoke, Roanoke county, Virginia.

§9. The said company shall have all the powers, rights,
nd franchises given, and shall be subject to all the lia-
ilities imposed by chapters forty-six, forty-seven, and
fty-one of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
ecessary and proper to maintain and operate its railroad
iow constructed, extending from the city of Roanoke, in
he county of Roanoke, in a southerly direction, a dis-
ance of about six miles through the county of Roanoke.
ind the said company is herebyrelieved from all obliga-
ion to further build or extend its line of road, but shall
ave power, if its board of directors shall so determine,
o extend its line of road now constructed, or to build
ranch lines thereto for the purpose of reaching iron-ore
properties in the county of Roanoke or the counties adja-
ent thereto, or any cities or towns in said counties, or
or the purposes of making connections with any railroads
within the county of Roanoke, and said company shall
nave all the powers, rights, and franchises, and shall be
subject to all the liabilities imposed by said chapters of
she code necessary and proper to construct, eqtip, and
maintain any line of road so determined upon. And the
aid company may sell or lease its line of road now con-
structed, or any line or branch line hereafter constructed,
together with the franchises to maintain and operate the
same, to any other railroad company.

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