Chap. 211.—An ACT to Incorporate the Healing Springs and Covington
Turnpike Company.

Approved July 9, 1870.

Whereas, Brigadier-General Schofield, commanding depart-
ment of Virginia, did, on the twenty-second day of February,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, issue the following order:

“Heapquarters First Mitirary District, State or Va.,
“Ricumonp, Va., February 22, 1868.
“Special Orders No. 35:
(Extract. ]

“5, I. For the purpose of constructing a turnpike road
from Healing Spring, in Bath county, to the town of Coving-
ton, in Alleghany county, books of subscription are hereby
authorized to be opened at Healing Spring, in the county of
Bath, by John L. Eubank and James A. McClung, of said
county; at the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, by
William Skeen, H. W. Massie, and Alexander McCurdy, of
said county, or any two of them, and at such other place or
places, and under such direction asa majority of the persons
above named shall designate and appoint for the purpose of
receiving and entering subscriptions to an amount not ex-
ceeding twenty thousand dollars, in shares of twenty-five dol-
lars each.

“TI. Whenever two hundred shares shall have been sub-
scribed, the subscribers, their executors, administrators, and
assigns, shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a com-
pany by the name and style ot The Ilealing Spring and
Covington Turnpike Company, subject to all the provisions,
and entitled to all the benefits, privileges, and franchises of
similar companies under the existing laws of Virginia so far
as the same may be applicable, and not inconsistent with the
terms of this order.

“JII. The principal office of the company shall be located
at the town of Covington until another location be designated
at a regular meeting of the stockholders, after such notice
given as may be previously determined upon by said stock-
holders or the duly appointed officers of the company.

“TV. Until a general meeting of the stockholders can be had,
which meeting may be called at any time by the persons here-
inafter named, or a majority of them, after two hundred
shares shall have been subscribed, and shall be called by them,
after such time, upon the written application of one-fourth of
all the stockholders, the affairs of the company shall be con-
ducted by the following named persons, viz: John L. Eu-
bank, of the county of Bath, as president; and James A.
McClung, of the county of Bath, William Skeen, H. W.
Massie, and Alexander McCurdy, of thecounty of Alleghany,
as directors.

“By command of Brevet Major-General Schofield.

“S. F. CHarrin,
“ Assistant Adjutant-General.
“ Official :. .
“S, F. Cuarrin, Assistant Adjutant-General.
“Mr. Witiiam SKEEN.”

Under and by virtue of which said order books of sub-
scription were opened, stock subscribed, the company orga-
nized, the road made, and gates erected thereon, all without
aathority of law:

1. Be it therefore enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
inia, That William Skeen, Alexander McCurdy, Samuel C.
ardy, Thomas W. McCance, and other subscribers to the

stock of the said company, be and they are hereby made a body
corporate, under the name of The Healing Springs and Coving-
ton Turnpike Company, and as such are invested with all the
rights and made subject to all the regulations and provisions
of chapter sixty-one of the Code of Virginia (edition of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty).

2. Be it further enacted, That all acts done by said company
in conformity with the said military order, and not repugnant
to the general laws relating to turnpike companies, be deemed
legal, and that said company may have power to proceed
against any delinquent subscriber; and any person deeming
the road out of repair, may proceed to have the gates erected
by the company, thrown open, as provided by existing laws;
but the road, as made under said military order, shall be and
the same is hereby declared legal, and all acts, not repugnant
to general laws, done by the president and directors of said
company, with the assent of the owners of the land through
which the road has been made, as well also as the donations
of the land taken for said road, are declared lawful.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.-