Chap. 168.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 340 of the acts of 1891-92
entitled an act to repeal chapter 324 of the acts of extra session ISS7, and to
put in fall force section L189 of the code of Virginia in relation to branch roads
and lateral works.

Approved January 31, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
three hundred and forty of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-
one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two be amended and re-enacted xo
as to read as follows: That chapter three hundred and twenty-four of
the acts of extra session eighteen hundred and eighty-seven entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled an act to amend
section five of chapter sixty-one of the code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, in reference to the construction of branch railroads or
lateral works, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, ap-
proved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and. the
same is hereby, repealed, “and that section eleven hundred and e eighty-
nine of the code of Vi irginia be re-enacted so as to read as follows:
$1189. Branch roads or lateral works. —The president and directors
of anv company incorporated to construct a railroad or other work of
internal improvement may cause to be made in connection therewith, o
may purchase branch railroads or lateral works not exceeding five miles
each way in length, and under a resolution adopted in general meeting
bv two-thirds of all the votes of all the stockholders may cause to be
made, or may purchase branch railroads or lateral works not exceeding
twenty miles in length: provided, however, that this act shall not be
construed so as to repeal any special authority heretofore given to any
company to construct branch roads or lateral works exceeding twenty
niles in length.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.