Chap. 151.—An AUT to Incorporate the Midway, Raphine and Browns-
burg Turnpike Company.

In force March 9, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful to open books under the direction of James
E. A. Gibbs, Hugh F. Lyle, J. D. McGuffin, John N. Stoner,
Jacob Wade, Franklin Lockridge, James Kennedy, Joseph
McFadden, Jonathan Brooks, and Andrew Patterson, and such
other person or persons as they or any three of them may
Appoint, and at such time and place as they may select, for the
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purpose of receiving subscriptions to a joint capital stock, not
exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of
ten dollars each, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike
road from the village of Midway, or some point on the Junc-
tion Valley turnpike, between said village and Mrs. Moore's
farm, one mile southwest of said village, by the way of Raphine
and Moore's school house, in Rockbridge county, to the town
of Brownsburg, or to some point on the Staunton and Lexing-
ton turnpike, between Brownsburg and New Providence
church.

2. When one thousand dollars shall have been subscribed,
the subseribers and their legal representatives are hereby in-
corporated into a company under the name and style of the
Midway, Raphine and Brownsburg Turnpike Company, subject

‘to the provisions of the general laws of the state, applicable

to such corporations, except so far as modified by this act:
provided, that the said subscriptions shall be paid in as may
be required by the board of directors when organized.

3. The said company shall have the privilege in making said
road, or any part thereof, to use gravel, rock, sand, or any
other material, which will maintain a good road in all seasons
of the year, as to them shall seem most expedient. The said
company shall be and they are hereby authorized to erect gates
across said road, and to charge tolls according to law, so soon
as said road is completed from either terminus to Moore's
school house; and other gates, one or more, when the road is
completed.

4. The said company, in constructing: said turnpike, shall
have the right, with the consent of the county court of Rock-
bridge county, to use the bed of the public road or roads lead-
ing between the two said points, so far as they are upon the
proper grade and location for said turnpike; and the said
company shall have the control of the entire width of said
roads, so far as they may extend their turnpike along the line
of the same; and the said company shall have the power to.
condemn and use, by compliance with the general laws in such
cases, the private lands of individuals where it is necessary to
obtain the proper grade and location for their road bed: pro-

. vided, that the said turnpike road shall not be less than twelve

feet wide, exclusive of gutters, and that the maximum grade
shall at no place exceed three degrees of ascent or descent.
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 to dis-

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|, Dose of the same: provided, the value of the same shall not at.
any time exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars.
. This act shall be in force from its passage.