Chap. 301.—An ACT Amending the Act passed March 2, 1858, entitled an
Act to Incorporate a Company to Construct a Turnpike Road from Syd-
nor’s Spring, in the County of Frederick, to Intersect a Road leading
from Winchester to Front Royal.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That the act passed
March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, entitled an act
to incorporate a company to construct a turnpike road from
Sydnor’s Spring, in the county of Frederick, to intersect a road
leading trom Winchester to Front Royal, be amended and re-
enacted so that the same shall read as follows, to wit: “ That
for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from Sydnor’s
Spring, in the county of Frederick, passing through Newtown
on the Valley turnpike road, to intersect a road leading from
Winchester to Front Royal, at the White Post road, as near
on the line of the present road as practicable, it shall be lawful
to open books of subscription, under the direction of E. T.
Hancock, Samuel T. Rust, Robert W. Miller, Martin R. Kauf.-
man, James Chipley, T. M. Miller, O. R. Funsten, G. W. Mor-
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ris, and J. McK. Kenerley, U. L. Boyce, or any three or more
of them, or under the direction of any other persons that three
or more of them may appoint, for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions to the amount of twelve thousand dollars, in
shares of twenty-five dollars each. When the sum of twenty-
five hundred dollars shall have been subscribed, the subscri-
bers, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall be and
are hereby incorporated into a joint stock company under the
name and style of The Newtown Turnpike Company, subject
to the fifty-seventh and sixty-first chapters of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to turnpike companies: provided, that said
company shall not be compelled to pave their road or to make
a summer or side road thereto. Said road is to be constructed
not less than eighteen feet wide, exclusive of ditches, and at a
grade not exceeding four degrees.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.