Chap. 464.—An ACT for the relief of the Orange and Keysville railroad company.

Approved February 23, 1808S.

“Whereas the Orange and Keysville railroad company organized and
existing under the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad
company by authority of an act of assembly approved the eighteenth
day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, by the failure of its
financial agent in New York and a re-organization of said company 1s
hindered by suggestion of forfeiture of charter rights, by lapse of time,
its affairs having continued until now under the control of the chancery
court of the city of Richmond, and under the circumstances relief should
be given: now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the charter
rights of the Orange and Kevsville railroad company, or its successors
in case of sale and re-organization, are hercby declared to be in full force,
and said company shall continue to have and exercise, unimpaired, all
the charter rights and privileges conferred by the said act of assembly
approved the eichteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
as amended by act of assembly approved the thirteenth day of January,

eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending the fifth and seventh sec-
tions of said charter and in computing the time within which certain
work of construction was to be completed as provided in the eighth
section of said charter, the period of time from the commencement of
the suit of Batchelor and Griffin against the Orange and Keysville rail-
road company to the expiration of six months from the entry of the
final decree in said suit (and causes heard therewith) shall not be
reckoned.

2. All acts and parts of acts amendatory of said eighth section of said
act of eighteenth of Mav, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all
other acts directly or indirectly imposing any forfeitures or otherwise in-
consistent with said charter as amended or inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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