Chap. 142.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist section of an Act
Entitled an Act to Incorporate The Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hamp-
om Railroad Company, Approved March 381, 1878, and to Change
its Name.

Approved April 2, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate The Brock’s
Gap, Hardy and Hampshire Railroad Company, be amended
and re-enacted so as so read as follows:

“$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That John Q. Winfield, Urich Wilting, Jacob N. Liggett,
John G. Coats, J. F. Branner, P. Pugh, J. W. Busore, 8 C.
Williams, Dr. Burke Chrisman, S. M. Yast and M. G. Har-
man, of Virginia, and Augur M. Wood, John Hower, Barnet
Brau, Oscar Burr, James o. Poland, J. Chapline, A. H. Pow-
nall, Isaac Hanes, Andrew W. Kerchevall, John C. Heiskell,
and Robert W. Gilkeson, of West’ Virginia, or such of them
as may accept the provisions of this act, and such persons and
incorporations as may become associated with them in the
manner hereinafter provided, shall be and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of
The Petersburg, Massanutta and Toledo Railway, and by
that name shall have all the powers, rights and franchises
necessary and proper to locate, construct and maintain a
narrow-guage railroad, not exceeding three feet six inches
between rails, to begin at Broadway, on the Washington
City, Virginia Midland, and Great Southern railroad, in Rock-
ingham county, in the state of Virginia, and to run thence
through Brock’s Gap by the most practicable route to some
point on the Virginia and West Virginia state line, in the said
county of Rockingham; and said company are authorized to
extend their line eastward by way of Massanutta, to the city
of Petersburg, Virginia, and to build a branch from any point
on the said road north of the Blue Ridge to Washington city,
or Georgetown, in the District of Columbia. Said company
is authorized to consolidate its line with any connecting road
now completed which shall of its own will so consolidate.

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

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