Chap. 1008.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Virginia Neaboard and Western railroad company, approved
February 10, 1894, and to amend and re-enact section 11 of said act as amended
and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 10 and
11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western
railroad company, approved February 10, 1894; approved January 11, 1896.

This bill was signed by the governor on March 5, 1898, the day after the general assembly
had adjourned sine die—the attorney general giving an opinion that the governor had
authority forsigning a bill after the adjournment sine die.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and
Western railroad company, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, and section eleven of said act as amended and re-enacted
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections ten and eleven
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Wes-
tern railroad company, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That John F.
Rison, J. W. Carter, A. B. Carrington, Charles O. Haines, Richard B.
Tunstall, Alfred P. Thom, W. B. Hatcher, and Adam Tredwell, their
associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and cor-
porate under the name of the Virginia Seaboard and Western railroad
company, for the purpose of constructing, equipping and operating a
railroad from a point at Danville or North Danville to a point on the
line of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia railroad, or the Nor-
folk and Western railroad, at or near Bristol, Tennessee, or to some
other point upon the line between the states of Tennessee and Virginia,
or upon the line between West Virginia and Virginia, and upon such
route as may be adopted by the company, and the line of the road may
be so located that a portion, or portions thereof, may, with the assent
of those states, respectively, be in North Carolina or in Tennessee, or in
both.

S11. This act is subject to the proviso that the work of construction
hereunder shall be begun not later than five years, and completed
within ten years, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred
‘and ninety-eight, unless the time therefor shall be extended by the
general assembly, or unless, within that time, this company shall have
leased or purchased property or franchises under section ten of this act.
All taxes or demands due or to become due by this company to the
state of Virginia shall be paid in lawful currency of the United States
and not in coupons.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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