Chap. 221.—An ACT to Incorporate the Newcastle and Paint Bank Turn-
pike Company, in the County of Craig.

Approved March 18, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virgima, That
it shall be lawful to open books at the town of Newcastle,
under the direction of James P. Martin, Jacob P. Specard,
Jubal W. McCormack, Thomas B. McCartney and William M.
Goode, or any three of them, and at Paint Bank, in the county
of Craig, under the direction of Henry Reynolds, Adam Smith,
John F. Whitclow, William O. Rowan and John 8. Cole, or any
three of them, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to a
joint capital stock, not exceeding in the whole ten thousand
dollars, to be divided in shares of twenty-five dollars each, for
the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from Newcastle,
in the county of Craig, to the Paint Bank, in said county.

2. When one thousand dollars shall have been subsenbed,
the subscribers, their executors, administrators and assigns,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company, by
the name and style of the “Newcastle and Paint Bank Tum.-
pike 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 said subscriptions shall be
paid in as may be required by the board of directors when
organized.

3. The said company shall be and they are hereby authorized
to erect gates across said road, and charge tolls according to
law, so soon as any section of five miles is completed.

4. The said company in constructing said turnpike shall
have the right to use the bed of any public road or abandoned
turnpike: provided, that the said company shall not be required
to make a summer or side road thereunto; and provided fur-
ther, that said turnpike road shall not be less than twelve feet
wide on the mountain section of said road, nor less than fourteen
feet wide on the residue.

5. This act shall be in force from its passace.