Chap. 382.—An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the
stock of the Madison and Orange railroad company on certain conditions.

Approved February 24, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be lawful for the judge of the county court of Madison county, in
term time or in vacation, to make an order requiring the sheriff, not
earlier than the fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, and not later than the second Thursday in November,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, at a time designated in said
order, not less than thirty days from the date thereof, to open polls
and take the sense of the voters of the said county on the question
whether the said county shall subscribe to the stock of the Madison
and Orange railroad company to an amount not exceeding fifty
thousand dollars for the said county, in bonds of the said county,
yearing interest at six per centum per annum, and to be paid in the
nanner now provided by law for the payment of such subscriptions,
he principal of said bonds to be due in thirty years; but the said
jubscriptions are to be subject to the condition that such bonds for
mne-half of the amount so subscribed are to be delivered to the said
ompany only when the work of building the said road shall be so
ar advanced that the road-bed shall be completed and in readiness
oreceive iron rails on every part thereof; and the residue of the
aid bonds is to be so delivered when the road shall be fully completed
und equipped for the regular transportation of freights and passen-
ers.

2. The said election shall be conducted and the ballots cast there-
({ shall be counted, returned and canvassed in the manner pre-
cribed in section twelve hundred and forty-four of the code of Vir-
rinia.

3. If it shall appear by the report of the board of commissioners
\ppointed to count the said ballots that three-fifths of the qualified
roters of the said county voting upon the question are in favor of
he subscription, and that said three-fifths includes a majority of the
votes cast by freeholders at such election, the said county court shall,
it its next session, enter of record an order requiring the supervisors
»f said county to attend on a day and at a place named in the order
‘ocarry out the wishes of the voters as expressed at said election.

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