CHAP. 214.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of chapter 108
of the Code of 1873, in reference to public lands.

Approved March 6, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section forty-
one of the one hundred and eighth chapter, Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 41. No location of any land-office warrant upon any land
which shall have been settled continuously for five years pre-
viously, upon which taxes shall have been paid at any time
within the said five years by the person having settled the
same, or any person claiming under him, shall be valid; and
any title which the commonwealth may have to such land shall
be hereby relinquished to the person in possession of the said
land claiming the same under such settlement and payment to
the extent of the boundary line enclosing the same: provided,
said boundary line shall not include more than fifteen hundred
acres, and every person so in possession so claiming may have
such land surveyed, and before the court of the county where
such land or any part thereof lies, prove such settlement for
such time and such payment; whereupon such court shall order
the plat and certificate of such survey to be recorded. There-
after the said record shall be conclusive evidence in any con-
troversy between the claimant thereunder and any person
claiming under a location of the said land made after such
order. This act shall relate as well to land forfeited for the
non-payment of taxes, or the failure to have the same entered
on the commissioner’s books, or both those causes, and to land
escheated or escheatable, and to waste and_unappropriated
land.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
other goods out of leather as may be determined by the stock-
holders in general meeting; and the said persons whose names
are above recited, together with their present and future asso-
ciates, are hereby invested with all the rights, powers and
privileges, and are made subject to all the rules, regulations
and restrictions provided and prescribed in the Code of Vir-
ginia, so far as they are applicable to and are not inconsistent
with the powers and rights herein granted.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 214.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 41 of chapter 108
of the Code of 1873, in reference to public lands.

Approved March 6, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section forty-
one of the one hundred and eighth chapter, Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 41. No location of any land-office warrant upon any land
which shall have been settled continuously for five years pre-
viously, upon which taxes shall have been paid at any time
within the said five years by the person having settled the
same, or any person claiming under him, shall be valid; and
any title which the commonwealth may have to such land shall
be hereby relinquished to the person in possession of the said
land claiming the same under such settlement and payment to
the extent of the boundary line enclosing the same: provided,
said boundary line shall not include more than fifteen hundred
acres, and every person so in possession so claiming may have
such land surveyed, and before the court of the county where
such land or any part thereof lies, prove such settlement for
such time and such payment; whereupon such court shall order
the plat and certificate of such survey to be recorded. There-
after the said record shall be conclusive evidence in any con-
troversy between the claimant thereunder and any person
claiming under a location of the said land made after such
order. This act shall relate as well to land forfeited for the
non-payment of taxes, or the failure to have the same entered
on the commissioner’s books, or both those causes, and to land
escheated or escheatable, and to waste and_unappropriated
land.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad west of Dublin depot
through the counties of Pulaski, Wythe, Carroll and Grayson,
or any of them, to the North Carolina line: provided, the said
railroad shall not exceed one hundred miles in length, and with
the further privilege of building roads, tramroads or branch
railroads to intersect their main stem, or the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio railroad in the above named counties, and the
Virginia Mineral Railway company shall have all the facilities
necessary and essential to carry on its operations in accordance
with the general laws on such subjects, and shall be subjected
to all the provisions and restrictions contained in the laws of
Virginia governing joint stock companies.

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not exceed
five hundred thousand dollars, and shall not be less than twenty
thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each. Books
of subscription to be opened at such time and place as any three
or more of said persons may designate, and any three or more
persons may organize the company by electing a president and
board of directors, and appoint such officers as may be neces-
sary for the management of the company’s affairs.

3. The board of directors of said compamy shall have power
to issue bonds in sums not exceeding one hundred dollars,
bearing interest at six per centum per annum, payable at such
time and place as may be most advantageous to said company,
and may secure the same by one or more mortgages on the
road, franchise, income, real or personal property of the com-
pany. And the said company shall have authority to purchase
and hold land, not exceeding fifty thousand acres, and may
sell, lease, convey or encumber the same.

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