Chap. 235.—An ACT to Incorporate the Christiansburg and Blacksburg
Turnpike Company, and to Authorize said Company to Construct a Tram-
way on part of their Road Bed.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books at Christiansburg, Christiansburg depot,
and Blacksburg in Montgomery county; at Newport and Peer-
broke, in the county of Giles, and at Gravel Hill, in Craig
county, under the supervision of Thomas W. Spindle, George
J. Junkin, James Moir, Daniel D. Brown, Dr. Harvey Black,
John M. Thomas, Charles A. Payne, Samuel E. Lybrook,
Joseph H. Hoge, Dr. Oscar Wiley, Danie] T. Hutchinson, and
Hiram Jones, or any two or more of them, for receiving sub-
scriptions, in shares of fifty dollars each, for the purpose of
constructing a turnpike road from Christiansburg, in Mont-
gomery county, by way of the Christiansburg depot, Yellow
Sulphur springs and Blacksburg, to Newport, in Giles county,
with the privilege of constructing branch turnpike roads to
the coal fields on Brush and Price’s mountains, in Montgomery.

2. When two hundred shares of said stock are subscribed
by solvent subscribers, they and their personal representatives
and assigns, shall be incorporated into a company by the name
of The Christiansburg and Blacksburg Turnpike Company,
and shall be subject to all the general laws on the subject of
incorporated companies now in force, except so far as they are
modified by this act.

3. Said company may, with the consent of the county courts
of the counties through which said road passes, occupy any
county road or abandoned turnpike road along the route of its
main line of road or any of its branches: provided, that said
road shall not be less than twenty feet nor more than thirty-
five feet in width, and shall be macadamized not less than
twelve feet nor more than sixteen feet of its width: and pro-
vided further, that said company shall not be required to ma-
cadamize its branch roads or that portion of its main line of
road across Brush and Gap mountains: provided further, that
said company, if they think proper, may instruct their road
only to the foot of Brush mountain, and in that event shall
not be required to continue the same to Newport.

4, And said company shall have the privilege of charging
tolls on the section of their road from Christiansburg to Chris-
tiansburg depot, and on any other section of their road, not
less than two miles in length, as soon as any one such section
is completed.

d. The counties of Montgomery, Giles and Craig, or either
of them, or any townsuip in either of said counties, may sub-
scribe to the capital stool of said company: provided further,
that said company shall have the privilege of constructing a
tramway on one side of their road bed for the whole length
of their main line of road or any of their branch roads, or for
such distance and to such points along the same as they may
prefer; and said company shall have the exclusive right to
convey and transport passengers and freight over and along
said tramway, and at such rates as they may prescribe, or may
be hereafter prescribed by law: provided further, that the
subscribers to the stock of. said company may designate in their
subscription that the amount subscribed shall be expended in
whole or in part in the construction of said turnpike road and
branches, or in the construction and equipment of said tram-
way; and the said company shall apply the sums subscribed, as
directed in the subscription.

6. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
ten thousand nor more than two hundred thousand dollars;
and they shall construct their main line of turnpike road within
five years from the passage of this act.

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