CHAP. 173.—An ACT to confirm and extend the charter and
francbises of the Carnegie land company.

Approved February 5, 1890.

Whereas a charter of incorporation was granted on the
twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, by J. K. M. Norton, judge of the corporation court
of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, in vacation, by which
John T. Wilder, A. B. Harris, R. A. Johnson, Thomas L.
Rosser, and John B. Moon, and their associates and suc-
cessors, were created a body politic and corporate under
the laws of Virginia, by the name of the Carnegie land
company, to which charter of incorporation an amend-
ment was granted by the said corporation court on the
eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
which charter and amendment were recorded in the office
of the secretary of the commonwealth of Virginia, as pro-
vided by law, and by which said charter and amendment it
was among the powers and franchises of the said com-
pany provided that the principal office of the said com-
pany should be kept in the said city of Alexandria, and
that the capital stock of the said company should be fixed
at two million five hundred thousand dollars, divided into
shares of ten dollars each, and that the amount of real
estate to be held by the said company should not exceed
twenty thousand acres, and that said company should
have no power to construct a railroad, turnpike, or canal,
and that said charter was granted upon the express con-
dition that said company should pay its taxes and other
demands against it, due the state of Virginia, in current
money of the United States, and in no other thing what-
soever; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
‘hat the said charter, with said amendment thereto, be,
nd the same is hereby, confirmed and declared valid in
1] respects, and that said corporators, John T. Wilder,
\. B. Harris, R. A. Johnson, Thomas L. Rosser, and John
3. Moon, and their associates and successors, are hereby
leclared a body politic and corporate in pursuance of and
vith the powers and franchises as set forth in the said
harter and amendment, but without interfering with or
mpairing, their organization or other transactions already
ntered into pursuant to said charter and amendment,
vhich are to be continued and stand as if entered into
inder the provisions of this act.

2. The principal office of the said company may, by a
rote of the stockholders, be established and kept at some
\lace in Virginia other than at the said city of Alexan-
jria, and said company may hold stock in other corpora-
‘ions, and other corporations may hold stock in the said
company.

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