Chap. 314.—An ACT to Amend the Second Section of an Act entitled an
Act to Authorize the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to Lease,
Hold, and Operate the Piedmont Railroad, passed February the 15th, 1866.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of the act entitled an act to authorize the Richmond
and Danville railroad company to lease, hold, and operate the
Piedmont railroad, passed the fifteenth day of February, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: |

Ҥ 2. The said Richmond and Danville railroad company
are also hereby authorized to make, in like manner, such con-
tract as is mentioned in the preceding section, or any other
contract that it may deem judicious in promoting a connection
business with any part of its own or of the said Piedmont
railroad line with the Richmond and York river railroad com-
pany, or any other railroad or transportation company, and to
provide, by loans or otherwise, for carrying out such contract
or contracts as may be made by authority of this act: pro-
vided, nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing the
said Richmond and Danville railroad company to sell, lease, or
dispose of the franchises or rights of said company.”

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