Chap. 18.—An ACT to amend the Charter of the Etterick Manufac-
turing Company, in the County of Chesterfield.

Approved January 26, 1876.

+. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the charter
of the Etterick manufacturing company, in the county of
Chesterfield, shall be and is hereby extended so as to con-
tinue in full force till amended or repealed by future act of
assembly; and the said company is hereby invested with all
the rights, privileges, and powers, and subjected to all the
rules, regulations, and restrictions prescribed by the Code of
Virginia, in relation to such bodies, politic and corporate, so
far as the same are applicable thereto, and of any future
laws which may be passed to alter or modify the same, so
far as they are applicable: provided, that nothing in this act
shall be construed as in anywise abridging or interfering
with any ‘right of the Upper Appomattox company, guar-
anteed to said Upper Appomattox company under its charter,
or by any amendments thereto, whether heretofore or here-
after granted. |

2. Section thirty-eight, chapter fifty-seven, Code of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three, so far as it fixes thirty years
us the time during which an act of incorporation of a manu-
facturing company shall be in force, shall not apply to the
Etterick manufacturing company, in the%county of Chester-
field.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage, und shall be
subject to amendment, alteration, modification, or repeal, at
the pleasure of the general assembly.