Chap. 252.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act to Incorporate the
Clinch River Navigation Company.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of the act entitled an act to incorporate the
Clinch river navigation company, passed the first of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be re-enacted and amended
80 as to read as follows:

Ҥ1. Be it enacted, That for the purpose of opening the
Clinch river, from the mouth of Guest river to the Tennessee
line, so as to admit of the passage of flat or keel boats, it shall
be lawful to open books of subscription for money, labor, or
property, for the purpose of opening the same, in shares of
ten dollars. The said books shall be opened at Osborne’s
Ford, under the superintendence of Isaac Osborne, George W.
Stallard, Henry W. Osborne, James H. Childress, and James
W. Elam, or any three of them; at Stony Creek, under the
superintendence of William Fraysner, Emory Cox, Asberry
Cox, Charles P. Carter, and John A, Mann, or any three of
them; at Mrs. Niel’s, under the superintendence of Lilbern
H. Niel, Henry §. Carter, John C. Taylor, Houston G. Niel,
and William G. Thomas, or any three of them; and when
property shall be subscribed, it shall be lawful for the said
commissioners to appoint two disinterested freeholders, at
each of the places above named for taking subscriptions, to
value the property so subscribed, they being first sworn for
the purpose.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.