Chap. 323.—An ACT to Amend an Act to Incorporate the Leesburg and
Point of Rocks Turnpike Company.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
passed April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled
an act to incorporate the Leesburg and Point of Rooks Turn-
pike Company, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Ҥ2. That it shall be lawful to open books at the following

laces in the county of Loudoun, namely: at Leesburg, un-
ier the direction of Charles R. Paxon, B. F. Sheets, Henry T.
Harrison, Charles P. Janney, and Wm. B. Lynch; at Gores-
ville, under the direction of E. J. Caufman, George M. Gray-
son, C. W. Paxon, John H. Whitemore, and Henry Hibler;
at the furnace of the Potomac iron company, under the direc-
tion of J. F. Mason, Benj. Moffitt, John Williams, Richard
Heater, and Daniel Shreeve, for receiving subscriptions to the
amount of thirty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars
each, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from
Leesburg to the Southern end of the Potomac bridge, in the
county of Loudoun: provided, that any two of the commis-
sioners named at either place, shall constitute a quorum for
said purpose.

Ҥ 3. That when two hundred shares, or ten thousand dol-
lars, shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, shall be and are hereby in-
corporated into a company by the name and style of The Lees-
burg and Point of Rocks Turnpike Company, subject to the
provisions of the Code of Virginia, except as herein provided.

Ҥ 4. That the said company shall have the privilege of
making branch roads in any direction, not exceeding five miles
in length, and for such purpose may increase its capital stock
three thousand dollars per mile for each branch.

Ҥ5. That the road shall be graded eighteen feet wide, shall
be well ditched outside of the road-bed, and shall be McAd-
amized, as hereinafter provided, sixteen feet wide; and that
the bridges and culverts shall not be less than fourteen teet
wide.

Ҥ 6. That the distance from Leesburg to the Limestone
run shall be the first section; from Limestone run to Luckett’s
Cross-roads, the second section; and from Luckett’s Cross-
roads to the Potomac bridge, the third section; and that any
branch road shall be a section, subject to all laws regulating
turnpikes.

Ҥ 7. That the subscribers may designate at the time of sub-
scription, to which section their subscription shall be applied,
and that no portion of the subscription so made shall be ap-
plied, bayou two dollars payable at the time of subscription,
to any portion of the road but the one to which the subscrip-
tion shall be made: provided, that the two dollars instalment
may be applied to the surveys and other general expenses of
the road without regard to the sections subscribed for.

Ҥ 8. That the directors shall be so arranged as to represent
all sections of the road that may be represented by subscrip-
tions at the time of the organization of the company, or at any
annual meeting of the company; and in case of death, resigna-
tion, or other incapacity of a director, the board of directors
may supply the vacancy until the next general meeting of the
company; and it shall be lawful to charge tolls on each section
in the proportion that the length of that section shall bear to
five miles.

Ҥ 9. That the county courts (or board of supervisors, or
other body or authority as may be provided by general
law,) may subscribe one-third to the capital stock of said com-
pany in the mode now or hereafter to be prescribed by law:
provided, that no bonds issued by the county shall be paid to
said company at a faster rate than the private subscriptions
shall be paid in. /

“§ 10. This act shall be in force from its passage.”