Chap. 164.—An ACT to Amend the Second Section of an act to Authorize
the Richmond and York River Railroad Company to Extend its Main
Line, or Build Branches to the Chesapeake or its Tributaries.

Approved June 27, 1870.

1. Be it enacted, That the second section of an act passed
February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, en-
titled an act to authorize the Richmond and York river rail-
road company to extend its main line, or build branches to the
Chesapeake bay or its tributaries, be re-enacted and amended
so as to read as follows, viz:

Ҥ 2, That the said Richmond and York river railroad com-
pany be authorized to issue and dispose of bonds to an amount
not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate,
upon such terms and at such rate of interest as may be ap-
proved by the president and directors of said company; and
that the company be and is hereby authorized and empowered
to create a deed of trust or mortgage upon the works, pro-
perty, and franchises of the extension, and also upon the works,
property, and franchises of the original road, to secure the
amount borrowed under the provisions of this act; but such
mortgage as to the works, property, and franchises of the ori-
ginal road, to be subject to the rights of all prior incum-
brances.”

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