An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1869/1870 |
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Law Number | 427 |
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Chap. 427.—An ACT to Incorporate the Deep Run Turnpike Company.
Approved November 5, 1870.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books under the direction of Thomas Johnston,
William Smith, N. C. Sheppard, J. A. Lynham, Smith Thorpe,
B. T. Johnson, and J. P. Ballard, and such other person or per-
sons as any three of the above named persons may appoint, and
at such time and place as they may select, for the purpose of re-
ceiving sabscripticus to a jcint capital stock, not exceeding in
the whole thirty t!..u.cnd dollars, to be divided into shares of
twenty dollars each. r the purpose of constructing a turnpike
road from the limii~ i i.e city of Richmond, near the Richmond
college, on, Brow) siscei, io Short Pump, in Henrico county.
2. When five i’ -isaie! dollars shall have been subscribed,
the subscribers, t'.cie cxecniurs, administrators, and assigns,
shall be and they ©... 7 4) incorporated into a company, by
the name and sty!e 00 Pie Do cp Nua Turnpike Company, sub-
ject to the provisio.. of the gencral laws of the state applica-
ble to such corpoictieas, exept so fur as modified by this act:
provided, that U.+.. 0 1 -::ussriptions shall be paid in as may be
required by the Goucd of dircctors when organized.
3. The said coinpacy still have the privilege, in making the
said road, or any part Usereof to use gravel, rock, sand, or any
other material wiich will maintain a gvod road, in all seasons
of the year, as te them shall seem most expedient. The said
company shal! be an.] they are hereby authorized to erect gates
across said road, and to charge toils according to law, 80 800n a8
the said road is completed to the junction of the Staple’s mill
road, or the place on said road now known as Woodson’s shop;
and on every succeeding mile thereto as it may be completed.
4. The said company, in constructing said turnpike, shall
have the right to use the bed of the public road known as the
Old Deep run turnpike, and the said company shall have the
control of the entire width of said road so far as they may ex-
tend their turnpike along the line of the same: provided, that
the said company shall not be required to make a summer or
side road thereunto: and provided further, that the said turn-
pike road shall not be less than sixteen feet wide.
5. The said company is hereby authorized to receive and
hold land or other species of property in payment of subscrip-
tions to the capital stock, and to convey and otherwise dispose
of the same: provided, that they shall not, at any one time,
hold more than two thousand acres of land in any one county.
6. This act shall be in force from its passage.