Chap. 253.—An ACT to Regulate the Mode of Subscribing to the Stock
of the Richmond and Trans-Alleghany Railroad Company by Coun-
ties, Cities, and Towns.

Approved March 26, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That on any vote hereafter taken by a county, city, or town
on the proposition to subscribe to the stock of the Richmond
and Trans-Alleghany railroad company, if it shall appear
from the report of the board of commissioners that a ma-
jority of the registered votes of the county, city, or town
has been cast, and that three-fifths of the votes so cast, in-
cluding a majority of votes cast by freeholders, at such elec-
tion are in favor of subscription, the county court, or council,
or board of trustees, shall enter of record an order requiring
the supervisors of the county, or the members of the council,
or board of trustees, to attend on a day and at a place named
in the order to carry out the wishes of the voters as ex-
pressed at said election; and in all respects not provided for
in this act, the proceedings i in reference to said vote shall be
in conformity with chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three: ‘provided, that the provisions of
this act shall not apply to the counties of Cumberland, Buck-
ingham, Appomattox, Campbell, Bedford, Rugsell, or Scott,
or ie the city of Lynchburg.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.