Chap. 207.—An ACT to Incorporate the Rapidan and Madison Courthouse
Turnpike Company.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books of subscription to an amount not ex-
ceeding fitty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of
fifty dollars each, for the purpose of constructing a graded
turnpike road from Rapidan station, on the Orange, Alexan-
dria, and Manassas railroad,in the county of Culpeper, by
way of Locust Dale and Oak Park, in the county of Madison,
to Madison courthouse.

2. The books shall be opened at Madison courthouse, under
the direction of T. J. Humphreys, Theophilus Smoot, W. E.
Banks, and J. C. Utz; at Oak Park under the direction of C.
C. Yager, George W. Clark, and Wm. A. Hill; at Locust
Dale under the direction of Wm. Lovel and John Lightfoot;
and at Rapidan station under the direction of Wm. H. Twy-
man and John P. Welch, or any one or more of them, and at
such other places and under the direction of such agents as a
majority of the above-named commissioners may appoint.
3. Whenever the sum of one thousand dollars shall have
been subscribed, the subscribers, their personal representa-
tives and assigns shall be incorporated into a company by the
name and style of The Rapidan and Madison Courthouse
Turnpike Company, subject to the provisions of all general
laws relative to incorporated companies: provided, that the
said company shall have the privilege of making the said road;
or any part thereof, with gravel, rock, sand, clay, or plank, 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 com-
pleted; that the said road shall not be less than twelve nor
more than thirty feet wide, and that its grade shall not exceed
four and a half degrees to the mile.

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