CHAP. 181.—An ACT authorizing the Board of Public Works to
adjust the claims of the James River and Kanawha Company, and
appropriating the proceeds, and providing for the safe-keeping of
certain deposits,.and authorizing the said James River and Kanawha
Company to sell and convey its works and franchises to the Rich-
mond and Alleghany Railroad Company.

Approved March 4, 1880.

ardofpub- 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the board of

octet. public works shall be authorized to adjust the claims of Vir-

ittheclaims oinia against the James River and Kanawha company for the
hire of convicts upon such terms as shall seem to them just
and to the interest of the state: provided, however, that what-
ever sum of money shall be realized to the state for said settle-
ment shall be paid into the treasury of the state for the use of
the penitentiary.

2. The board of public works shall have authority to select
a depository for the safe-keeping of five hundred thousand dol-
lars of bonds, to be deposited by the purchaser of the works,
property and franchises of the James River and Kanawha com-
pany, and shall require the purchaser to pay the charges for
such safe-keeping.

8. That it shall be lawful for the James River and Kanawha
company to sell and convey, and for the proxies representing
the state of Virginia in any stockholders’ meeting of said com-
pany, to vote for the sale and conveyance of its works, pro-
perty and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany railroad
company, upon terms and conditions of an act approved Feb-
ruary twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, enti-
tled an act, and so forth, notwithstanding the limitations of
said act: provided, the said sale and conveyance shall be
made within five days from the passage of this act.

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