Chap. 186.—An ACT in relation to the Fairfax and Georgetown Turnpike
Company.

Approved July 8, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section first of the act passed I‘ebruary twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an act to incorporate the
Fairfax and Georgetawn turnpike company, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. That it shall be lawful to open books for receiving
subscriptions to an amount not exceeding one hundred thou-
sand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, to consti-
tute a joint capital stock for constructing a turnpike road from
Fairfax Courthouse to some point on the Potomac river, near
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. The said company
may construct their road, or any part thereof, with stone, gra-
vel, sand, or plank, as to them shall seem expedient, and regu-
late the width of the bed of the road as said company may
deem necessary to accommodate the travel thereon: provided,
it shall not be Jess than sixteen nor more than sixty feet in
width, and that the said company shall not be required to
make any summer or side road.”

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