Chap. 17.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of an act
approved March 15th, 1872, entitled an act to incorporate the Wash-
ington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company, as amended by
an act approved April 15th, 1874, entitled an act to amend and re-
enact the first and ninth sections of the act entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis rajlroad company,
so as to exempt the county of Rappahannock from the operation of
said acts.

Approved January 11, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the ninth
section of an act, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, entitled an act to incorporate the Wasbing-
ton, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company, as amended
by an act approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, entitled an act*to amend and re-enact the first
and ninth sections of the act entitled an act to incorporate
the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 9. That any county, city or town by, near, or through
which the line of said Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis
railroad, or any of its branches, may run, except the county
of Rappahannock, is hereby authorized to subscribe to the
capital stock of said company, in the manner and under the
rules and regulations prescribed by an act of the general
assembly of Virginia, and approved June twenty-seventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, authorizing subscriptions to
the stock of incorporated companies by the counties of Rock-
ingham, Augusta, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Craig and Roanoke,
and the towns of Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington and
Salem. .

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