Chap. 14.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 1 of an Act enti-
titled an Act to Incorporate The Thornton’s Gap Turnpike Com-
pany, passed January, 19, 1848.

Approved January 26, 1874.

Whereas the Thornton’s Gap Turnpike Company has
heretofore completed its road, according to the terms and
provisions of its charter, as a macadamized road, and the
same had been used and tolls collected thereupon as such for
#, number of years previous to the late war; but whereas, by
its usage during the war, and a failure to collect tolls there-
upon during that period and for several years thereafter, the
necessary repairs on said road have not been kept up, and
the stone and gravel on many parts of it have been exhausted ;
but whereas, during the last few years said company have
been making efforts to repair said road, by the erection of
bridges and improving and throwing up the grade and re-
moving obstructions therefrom—but by throwing up the
grade the remainder of the stone and gravel thereon is in

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tion, even by its improvement, not such as is required by law
for a macadamized turnpike road, and said road is in danger
of being condemned and the gates thrown open before the
work of improving and metaling the same has been com-
pleted—therefore, it is desirable that said company, for the
time being, shall be excused from the performance of the re-
quirement in their original charter to pave their road with
stone or gravel, especially as to that portion of their road
recently graded, but that the said road shall be placed on the
footing of a graded turnpike, with the privilege of collecting
toll therefrom, to be applied to the thorough repair of their
road; therefore, é

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate The Thorn-
ton’s Gap Turnpike Company, passed January nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall
be lawful to open books at Culpeper, under the superintend-
ence of William Walden, Daniel Botts, Adolphus W. Read,
Lyle Millan, R.S. Voss, John R. Tanall, John C. Green, John
P. Kelly, George Thomas, Mark Reid, and Thomas Hill, Sr.,
or any three of them, and at such other times and places,
under the superintendence of such persons as the above com-
missioners, or a majority of them may appoint, for the pur-
pose of receiving subscriptions to an amount not exceeding
seventy-five thousan@ dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each,
to constitute a joint capital stock for the purpose of con-
structing a turnpike road from Thornton’s Gap, in the county
of Rappahannock, by Culpeper Courthouse, to Kelly’s mill,
in the county of Culpeper: provided, that the said company.
shall not be required to make a summer or side road, nor to
pave or cover the said road with stone or gravel.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage, and remain
in force for three years.