Chap. 246.—An ACT to provide for more specific Reports of the Tran:-
portation of Produce on the Railroads and Canals of this State.

Approved March 25, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the eighth sub-division of the forty-ninth section of chapter
sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

EHighth. As regards the doings of the year in transporta-
tion; the rate of fare charged each class of passengers per
mile; the rate charged per ton (of two thousand pounds) for
each class of freight carried in cars; the number of tons of
pig iron, coal, coke, lead, salt, and other minerals; the num-
ber of pounds of leaf tobacco, tobacco stems, manufactured
tobacco, cotton, wheat, corn, oats, rye, flaxsced, bacon, butter,
eggs, dried fruit, hay, shucks, sumac, wool and tallow; car
loads of cattle, calves hogs, lambs and sheep; car loads of
wood, and bark, and lumber, and barrels of flour, whiskey,
cement, lime, and tar, transported inward and outward as
aforesaid. This enumeration of articles may bo enlarged or
diminished, prior to the beginning of any fiscal year, by the
board of public works. The provisions of this section, as
far as applicable, shall apply to all canal and navigation com-
panies of this state.

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