Chap. 485.—An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river mineral
company.

Approved March 3, 1890.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That W. T. Griffin, Joseph Harrison, H. C. Stuart, J. M.
Luther, and John Wyatt, or such of them as may accept
the provisions of this act, their associates and successors,
be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body
politic and corporate under the name and style of the
Clinch river mineral company, and by that name shall be
known 1n law, and shall have power to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all
courts, whether in law or equity; and they may make and
have a common seal and may alter or renew the same at
pleasure; and shall have and exercise all rights, powers,
and privileges pertaining to corporate bodies, and neces-
sary for the purposes of this act; and may make by-laws,
rules and regulations consistent with existing laws of the
state for the government of all under its authority, the
management of its properties, and the due and orderly con-
duct of its affairs.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, as may be determined by the stockholders at
any general meeting, and shall be divided into shares of
one hundred dollars each, and the directors may receive
real or personal property or services in payment for sub-
scriptions to the capital stock at such valuations as may
be agreed upon between the directors and the subscribers.

3. The said company is authorized and empowered to
purchase, hold, own, lease, and control, and develop mine-
ral properties of all kinds and descriptions, buy, lease for
money, rent, or on royalty, and sell or work the same,
and to mine and produce for manufacture or market kao-
lin, plumbago, and other earths or clays useful for manu-
facturing purposes; also barytes, coal, iron, lead, gold, sil-
ver, copper, and all other minerals, ores, and metals; to
buy, lease for money, rent, or on royalty, and shall sell,
sub-lease for money or on royalty, or work and hold lands
necessary and useful therefor, or the ores, minerals, metals,
earth, and clay rights therein, and to sell or otherwise dis-
pose thereof in this or other states of the United States;
to carry on the business of mining and manufacturing of
all kinds of ores, minerals, metals, earths, and clays from
the product of their own mines or the mines of others,
manufacturing everything that can be manufactured from
such products.

4. The board of directors may establish offices and
agencies at such places as they may deem proper, but the
annual meetings shall be held and the principal office shall
be located in the state of Virginia.

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

CHapP. 486 —An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of
Northampton county to appropriate a part of the glebe fund to
enlarge the courthouse and clerk’s office of said county.

Approved March 3, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That at the election in November next for congressmen
the qualified voters of Northampton county are hereby
permitted to vote upon the question of appropriating four
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
of the glebe fund for the purpose of improving court-
house and clerk’s office of said county, as hereinafter pro-
vided.

2. The judge of the county court shall direct the sheritf
twenty days prior to said election to post a notice of said
election at each voting precinct in the county; he shall
also give notice to the officers charged with conducting
said election for congressmen of the election herein pro-
vided for.

3. There shall be provided at this election two ballot
boxes—one in which shall be deposited the ballots of free-
holders and in the other shall be deposited the ballots of
non-freeholders. The ballots to be used in said election
shall be, respectively, as follows: “For expending the
sum of four thousand dollars, part of the glebe fund, for
enlarging the courthouse and clerk’s office,” and “ Against
expending the sum of four thousand. dollars, part of the
glebe fund, for enlarging the courthouse and clerk’s
office.” The manner of receiving and canvassing the
ballots and making returns and abstracts thereof shall
conform in all respects to the requirements of the general
election law, except that the certificate of the judges shall
be as follows: We hereby certify that at the election held
on the -—— day of freehold and
non-freehold votes were cast for expending four thousand
dollars, part of the glebe fund, for enlarging the court-
house and clerk’s office, and freehold and
non-freehold votes were cast against expending four thou-
sand dollars, part of the glebe fund, for enlarging the
courthouse and clerk’s office.

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4. The proper official canvassers of general election re-
turns shall canvass these returns in like manner as other
election returns, and they shall certify the whole number
of freehold and non-freehold votes cast in the said county
for and against the said expenditure to the county court
of said county. -

5. The county court shal] cause the said vote, as ascer-
tained by the said canvassers, to be recorded in the order
book of said court.

6. If it appear from the said certificate and returns that
a majority of the freeholders, also a majority of the non-
freeholders, cast their ballots in favor of expending the
said sum of money for the purpose aforesaid, then it shall
be lawful for the board of supervisors of Northampton
county to expend and appropriate from the glebe fund
aforesaid a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars for
the purpose of enlarging the courthouse and clerk’s office
of said county. And, in that event, the said board of su-
pervisors are authorized to collect so much of the princi-
pal of said fund as does not exceed the sum of four thou-
sand dollars, and expend the same for that purpose, and
to make all contracts and agreements necessary to carry
into effect this act. And if it appear that a majority of
the freeholders voting, or a majority of the non-freeholders
voting, are cast against expending the sum of four thou-

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sand dollars for the purpose aforesaid, then the said board
of supervisors shall not expend or appropriate the said
sum for the said purpose.

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