Chap. 186.—An ACT to amend section two, chapter seventy-nine of an
act entitled an act incorporating a Company to Construct a Turnpike
Road across the Warm Springs Mountain, passed March eighth,
eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.

Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two of chapter seventy-nine of an act incorpo-
rating a company to construct a turnpike road across the
Warm springs mountain, be amended and re-enacted as fol-
lows:

§ 2. When thirty-six shares, of one hundred dollars each,
shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their heirs and
assigns, shall be and are hereby incorporated into a company
by the name of The Warm Springs Mountain Turnpike
Company, agreeably to an act entitled an act prescribing
general regulations for the incorporation of turnpike com-
panies: provided, that the said company shall be governed

y the provision of the act, except that they shall not be
compelled to make the road more than fifteen feet wide over
the said mountain, nor more than twenty-two feet wide in
other parts, nor cover it with gravel or stone, unless it shall
at any time be found necessary; nor shall they be compelled
to make a summer or side road thereto: and provided also,
the said road shall be made according to the location and
direction of the principal engineer of the state.

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

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Chap. 187—An ACT to Incorporate the West Point and Peninsula Nar-
row-Gauge Railroad Company.

Approved March 27, 1876.

1, Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
P. 8S. Whitcomb, of Keeseville, New York; James EH. Simp-
son, of Brooklyn, New York; Henry J. Hubbard, of New
York city; Andrew B. Battelle, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ;
Jerome B. Graybill, ot Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William
Toney, of Ashland, Pennsylvania; and Sydney Smith, Robert
F. Cole, R. L. Henley, Dr. Robert H. Power, B. F. Smith,
Thomas Tabb, and Andrew P. Richardson, of Virginia; their
associates and successors, shall be and are hereby created a
corporation, by the name of The West Point and Peninsula
Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, for the purpose of con-
structing a narrow-gauge railroad from a point opposite or
nearly opposite the-town of West Point, Virginia, through
the Peninsu'a to or near Hampton; and that said company
shall have power to build branch and lateral roads, not ex-
ceeding twelve miles each in lengtb, from their main line.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be more
than one million dollars, and shall be divided into shares of
one hundred dollars each. When ten thousand dollars thereof
are subscribed, and two per centum theregn paid in, the sub-
scribers may organize the company, andWexercise the func-
tions of a corporation, in accordance with the provisions ap-
plicable thereto in the Code and statutes of Virginia, with
power to construct and operate said railroad. And the direc-
tors of said company, or a majority of them, shall, by and
with the cogsent of the stockholders, in general meeting as-
sembled, have power to borrow money for the purpose of this
act, and to issue proper bonds or certificates of such loans,
and to pledge the property of the company, by mortgage or
otherwise, for the payment of the same, and the interest that
may accrue thereon.

3. That it shall be lawful for said company to acquire, in
subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, or by do-
nation or otherwise, lands, timber, materials, or labor; and
the said company may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any
lands or other property acquired under this section, at their
pleasure.

4, That it shall be lawful to open books of subscription to
the capital stock of said company, in the counties through
which the said road runs, under the direction of the boards
of supervisors of said counties, for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thou-
sand dollars in each county, in shares of one hundred dollars
each. The work on said road shall be commenced in two
years, and completed within five years from the commence-
ment.

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