Chap. 200.—An ACT to Incorporate the Stony Run Turnpike Company.
Approved July 8, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books, under the direction of George V. Brown,
George M. Fleck, Elijah Baker, S. L. Annable, John E. Friend,
H. B. Burnham, and Jacob J. Reynolds, and such other per-
son or persons as any three of the above named persons may
appoint, and at such time and place as they may select, for the
purpose of receiving subscriptions to a joint capital stock, not
exceeding in the whole one hundred thousand dollars, to be
divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, for the pur-
pose of constructing a turnpike road from the limits of the
city of Richmond, near Twenty-fifth and Venable streets, to
the new bridge on the Chickahominy river, in Henrico county,
with the privilege of constructing, as feeders to said turnpike,
two lateral roads, one of which shall commence on the said
main turnpike at battery number five, and run to Stony run
creek; and the other of said lateral roads shall commence on
said main turnpike road at Doctor Garnett’s corner, and run
to the Seven Pines, in Henrico county.

2. When twenty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed,
the subscribers, their executors, administrators, and assigns
shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company by
the name and atyle of The Stony Run Turnpike Company,
subject to the provisions of chapters fifty-six and sixty-one of
the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty),
except so far as modified by this act.

8. The width of said road shall not be less than twenty feet,
exclusive of side ditches; and its grade shall nowhere exceed
five degrees to the mile.
4. The said company shall have the privilege of making the
said road, or any part thereof, with gravel, rock, sand, or any
other material which will maintain a good road, in all seasons
of the year, as to them shall seem most expedient; of erecting
gates and charging tolls, according to law, on any section of the
said road, five miles in length, so soon as such section shall be
completed; and the said company shall, in addition to the pri-
vileges hereinbefore conferred, be and they are hereby author-
ized to erect gates and charge tolls, according to law, so soon
as the said road is completed from Richmond to the place
known as High Meadow.

d. The said company, in constructing said turnpike, with its
branches or lateral roads, as aforesaid, shall have the right to
construct the same upon the bed of the old public road known
as the Nine-mile road, and in like manner to use the bed of
any other public road which may lie along the prescribed route
of said turnpike or its lateral roads or branches: provided,
however, that before the bed of any such public road shall be
used by said company, as herein provided, the consent of the
county court, which shall be entered of record, shall be ob-
tained thereto.

6. The said main turnpike road, from Richmond to the new
bridge, shall be completed within five years from the organi-
zation of the company; and if not so completed within the
said five years, then the right of the company to collect tolls
upon the said turnpike shall be suspended until the said turn-
pike is completed.

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