Chap. 318.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of ‘‘An
Act to Authorize the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Com-
pany to Consolidate and Provide for the Payment af its Mortgage
Debt,” approved March 31st, 1871.

Approved March 23, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of the “act to authorize the Orange, Alexan-
dria and Manassas railroad company to consolidate and pro-
vide for the payment of its mortgage debt,” approved March
thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That to enable
the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company to
consolidate and provide for the payment of the bonds and
funded interest secured by the several mortgages executed by
said company, and by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
Company, it shall be lawful for said company to issue bonds
of said company to an amount not exceeding six millions of
dollars, at such rates of interest, not exceeding that allowed
by law, as may be deemed expedient, and to secure payment
of principal and interest by one or more deeds of trust or
mortgages on the franchises, tolls, receipts, and whole pro-
perty, real and personal, of said company.”

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

Chap. 319—An ACT to Amend the Sixth Section of Chapter 109 of the
Code of 1860, in Relation to Divorces.

Approved March 28, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the sixth
section of chapter one hundred and nine of the Code of 1860
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 6. A divorce from the bond of matrimony may be decreed
for adultery; for natural or incurable impotency of body, ex-
isting at the time of entering into the matrimonial contract;
prior,to the marriage either party, without the knowledge of
the other, had been convicted of an infamous offence; where
either party charged with an offence punishable by death or
confinement in the penitentiary has been indicted, is a fugitive
from justice and has been absent for two years; where either
party wilfully deserts or abandons the other for five years, a
divorce may be decreed to the party abandoned; where at
the time of the marriage the wife, without the knowledge of
the husband, was enciente by some person other than the hus-
band, or prior to such marriage had been, without the know-
ledge of the husband, notoriously a prostitute, such divorce
may be decreed to the husband; but no such divorce shall be
decreed if it appears that the party applying for the same has
cohabited with the other after knowledge of such conviction
of an infamous offence, or has cohabited with the wife after
knowledge of the fact that she was enciente, or had been a
prostitute as aforesaid.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.