Chap. 217.—An ACT to Incorporate the Fairfax County Narrow Gauge
Elevated Railroad Company.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
Jawful to open books at T*airfax courthouse, under the direc-
tion of N. O. Bond, I]. W. Thomas, Job Hawxhurst, B. Can-
field, and F. Palmer, or any three of them, and at such other
places under the direction of such agents as a majority of the
above-named may appoint, for the purpose cf receiving sub-
scriptions to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dol-
lars, in shares of fifty dollars each, to constitute a joint capital
stock for constructing a narrow gauge elevated railroad trom
Fairfax courthouse to either Vienna or Falls Church, on the
Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire railroad, and from thence
to the Aqueduct bridge opposite Georgetown, District of Co-
lumbia; also from Fairfax Courthouse to Fairfax station or
Manassas, or to some point between the last-named places on
the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas railroad, and under the
plans and specifications of the said N. O. Bond.

2. Whenever forty shares shall have been subscribed, the
subacribers, their heirs or assigns, shall be and are hereby de-
clared and constituted a body politic and corporate, under the
name and style of the Fairfax County Elevated Railroad Com-
pany, and shall be subject to all the provisions of the Code of
Virginia applicable to railroad companies.

3. Provided further, that said railroad shall be commenced
within two years from the passage of this act, and be finished
within three years from the time of commencing, from Fair-
fax Courthouse to either Vienna or Falls Church, and within
five years to Aqueduct bridge, Georgetown, District of Co-
lumbia, or Fairfax station, or Manassas junction, or some point
between on the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas railroad.

4. Provided also, that after the completion of the said road
from Fairfax Courthouse to either Vienna or Falls Church, it
shall be optional with the said company in regard to contin-
uing the same to the other points named in the first section
of this act: and provided further, that the failure to build the
same shall in nowise affect this charter as applicable to that
portion constructed, but the same shall continue in force.

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