CHAP. 434.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Staley’s Creek manganese and
iron company, approved May 21, 1887.

Approved March 3. 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two of an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the Staley’s Creek manganese and iron company,
approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

82. The said company is authorized and empowered to
mine manganese, iron ore, and other minerals; to prepare
the same for market; to transport and sell the same; to
manufacture iron, steel, and other metals; to purchase,
lease, hold, and convey real estate, lands, mineral rights,
not exceeding fifteen thousand acres in this state at any
one time; to erect and operate furnaces, mills, and any
works that may be requisite, and to locate and construct
any railroad, not exceeding fifteen miles in length, from
the lands or works of said company to any point on the

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Norfolk and Western railroad in Smyth or Washington
counties.

2. All taxes and debts due the commonwealth shall
be paid in lawful money of the United States and not in
coupons.

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