Chap. 474.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section ten of an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Chesapeake and West Virginia railroad company, ap-
proved February 16, 1892.

Approved February 28, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake and West
Virginia railroad company, approved February sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 10. For the purpose of organizing said company, the persons first
named in this act shall constitute its first board of directors, and
shall run until its first meeting of stockholders; and three or more
may act and may receive subscriptions to the capital stock at any
time and place, and when the sum of fifty thousand dollars is sub-
scribed, they shall convene the stockholders and organize said com-
pany. At said meeting one of their number shal! preside, and they
shall certify said organization on the books of the company, and
their certificate, or a copy thereof, duly authenticated by a notary
public, shall be received as evidence of the legal organization of said
company. Said company, or its successors, shall begin the work of
constructing its railroad within two years from the passage of this
act, and shall complete its main line in this state within five years
from the beginning of construction.

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