Chap. 237.—An ACT to incorporate The Newport and Blacksburg
Turnpike Company.

Approved March 25, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawfu! to open books at Newport, in the
county of Giles, and in Blacksburg, in the county of Mont-
gomery, under the supervision of Harvey Black, John M.
Thomas, Thomas Roberts, Charles H. Payne, Joseph H.
Hoge, Shelton H. Domday, and Samuel H. Early, or any two
or more of them, for receiving subscriptions, in shares of
fifty dollars each, for the construction of a turnpike road
trom the forks of the road, near Mrs. Atkins’, widow of the
late Enoch Atkins, in the county of Giles, to the terminal
point of the Blacksburg railroad, or to the town of Blacks-
burg, in the county of Montgomery, on the route of the
present abandoned turnpike road, or as nearly so as the
grade bereinafter prescribed can be obtained, which shall not
exceed five degrees, nor shall said road be less than seven-
teen feet wide.

2. When thirty shares of said stock shall be subscribed by
solvent subscribers, and two per centum thereon paid in, they
and their personal representatives and assigns shall be incor-
porated into a company by the name of The Newport and
Blacksburg Turnpike Company, and shall be subject to all
the general laws on the subject of incorporated turnpike
companies, now in force, except so far as they are modified
In this act.

3. Said company, with the consent of the county courts
of the counties through which said road passes, may occupy
any county road or abandoned turnpike road along the route
of said proposed turnpike road.

4. Said company sball have the privilege of charging tolls
on said road, or any section thereon, not less than five miles,
43 s00n as such section is completed; and when the whole of
said road is completed, said company may erect one or more
toll-gates, as they may determine, and collect tolls thereat
at the same rates, in proportion per mile as are allowed by
the general laws regulating tolls on incorporated turnpiko
companies.
5. The provisions of the act approved March twenty-ninth.
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled an act to incer-
porate The Christiansburg and Blacksburg Turnpike Coz-
pany, so far as the same are in conflict with this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

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