Chap. 838.—An ACT to incorporate the Brock’s Gap, Broadway and Tenth
Legion turnpike company.

Approved March 8, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That George
QQ Olidhizer J KH. Reaard T S. J,. Ragone J. Preston Miller. C. R.
Winfield, Joseph H. Nave, Wallace B. Minnick, I. C. Wade, J. M. H.
Stover, Charles G. Brumbo, Erasmus Long, Jacob Sellers, Joseph
Mauzy, John G. Cootes, Robert Miller, or any five of the parties
named, and any other persons who may unite with them and comply
with the requirements of law for giving effect to this act, be, and
are hereby, made a body politic and corporate under the name and
style of the Brock’s Gap, Broadway and Tenth Legion turnpike com-
pany, with full powers to construct aturnpike road from any point
in Rockingham county west of the Little North mountain, either in
Plains or Linville magisterial district, via Brock’s Gap and the town
of Broadway, to any point on the Valley turnpike in Plains magis-
terial district, and to construct a branch road or roads, not exceed-
ing twenty miles in length, anywhere west of said Little North
mountain: provided that said turnpike road shall be not more than
sixty or less than thirty feet wide, except that at such points where
cuts or side-cuts or fills or embankments are necessary to form a
practicable grade or to avoid water-courses, said road may be reduced
to such width as is necessary to afford safe and convenient passage
over the same.

2. The said company, in constructing said road, shall have the
right, with the consent of the county court of Rockingham, which
consent the said court 1s hereby authorized, in its discretion, to grant,
to use the bed of any public road or bridge, and shall have the con-
trol of the entire width of such road or bridge so far as they may
construct and extend the said turnpike along the line of such public
road or bridge.

3. The said company is hereby authorized to erect one or more
gates across said road at such point or points as they may deem ex-
pedient, and to charge tolls as the board of directors may order,
which may be done after five or more miles of said road has been
completed: provided that the rates of toll on said road shall not ex-
ceed the rates fixed by law.

4, The said company may begin work on the said road at any point
or points on the line which they may locate.

5. The capital stock of said company shall be not less than five
thousand nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided
into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and books of subscription
may be opened by George S. Aldhizer, T. S. L. Basore and J. Procton
Miller, three of the corporators, or such other persons as they may
appoint, at such time and place as they may select for the purpose
of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock; and when the mini-
mum amount of stock is subscribed, and one dollar. per share paid
thereon, the said corporators may proceed to organize the company
as is provided by law: provided that the commissioners to receive
subscriptions may receive bona fide subscriptions to be paid in labor
or material, and such subscriptions may be counted with other sub-
scriptions as a basis for organization.

6. The said road shall be commenced within two years, and after
the expiration of six years said company shall forfeit all their rights
as to any part of said road that has not been completed according to
law, but shall not for such reason forfeit their rights in any lawful
ection, or additional fraction thereof, that has been completed and
oaintained according to the requirements of law: provided as
much as fifteen miles of such turnpike has been completed in one
continuous line.

7. This road shall be subject to all the general laws of the state as
are applicable thereto.

8. This act shall be in force from the date of its passage.