CHAP. 188.—An ACT to incorporate the Legislative investment
company of Roanoke.

Approved February 7. 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That John R. Johnson, W. P. Dupuy, John W. Woods, J.
Hampton Hoge, M. B. Rowe, R. W. Magruder, C. J. Hill,
M. Ezekiel, Edward Echols, J. P. Fitzgerald, D. J. Turner,
R. A. James and C.C. Taliaferro, or any of them who may
accept the provisions of this act, their associates and suc-
cessors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a
body politic and corporate under the name and style of
the Legislative investment company of Roanoke, and by
that name shall be known in law and shall have perpetual
succession, and shall have power to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts,
whether in law or in equity, and may have a common seal
and alter the same at pleasure, and shall have, enjoy, and
exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges incident and
pertaining to corporate bodies and necessary for the pur-
poses of this act.

2. The capital stock of said company shall be not less
than five thousand dollars nor more than one hundred
thousand dollars, and divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each. .

3. The said company is authorized to purchase, acquire,
hold, and convey lands and interests in lands in the city
and county of Roanoke, and to erect dwellings, stores or
other buildings thereon, and to sell or lease the same,
and to otherwise develop and improve said lands.

4. The said company may acquire, by subscription or
by purchase, the stock or bonds of any mining, manufac-
turing, street railway, land improvement, investment, and
construction or other improvement company within the
limits of the territory above named.

5. The five persons first named in this act, or such of
them as accept the provisions hereof, shall constitute the
first board of directors, and shall continue in office until
their successors are elected by a meeting of the stock-
holders, which meeting may be called by said directors
upon the application of three or more of the stockholders
of said company.
6. All taxes due the commonwealth by said company
shall be paid in lawful money of the United States and
not in coupons.

7. This act shall be force from its passage. °

CHAP. 189-—-An ACT to make South Meherrin river a lawful fence
from Rocky Mills up to the boundary line between the counties
of Charlotte and Mecklenburg.

Approved February 7, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the South Meherrin river be made a lawful fence
from the Rocky Mills to the boundary line between the
counties of Charlotte and Mecklenburg.

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

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