Chap. 228.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section five of an Act en-
titled an Act to Incorporate the Roanoke Valley Railroad Company,
approved March twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sev enty -five.

Approved March 29, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five of an act approved March the twenty-sixth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and re- enacted 80
as to read as follows:
~ §5. Whenever the sum of twenty thousand dollars or more
shall be subscribed by solvent persons, counties or corpora-
tions, the commissioners named in the preceding section,
shall call a meeting of such subscribers. A majority of such
subscribers, in person or by proxy, when so met, shall pro-
ceed to organize by electing from their number a president
and seven directors, who shall constitute a board, and pos-
sess the powers and be charged with the duty of making all
necessary contracts, and doing whatever else may in their
judgment be necessary and proper in the constraction of said
road and furnishing it with cars, rolling stock, and other
things required in operating the same, and as soon as so fur-
nished and organized, the said subscribers, and such others
as may thereafter subscribe for stock, and become thus asso-
ciated with them, shall become. and be a body corporate, as
prescribed in the first section of this act.

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