Chap. 203.—An ACT to amend section 1 of an act approved January
11th, 1877, enlarging the corporate powers of the Royal land company.

Approved March 21, 1877.

1.- Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved January eleventh, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, entitled an act to amend the char-
ter of the Royal land company, and to enlarge its corporate
powers and franchises, so as to enable it to purchase, con-
struct, and operate a railroad, from its lands to the Potomac
river, and ship from the terminus thereof minerals and mer-
chandise, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly, That it shall
and may be lawful for the Royal land company of Virginia,
to own, construct, equip, control, work, and manage a rail-
road, from the western boundary of this commonwealth, in
Augusta or Rockingham counties, eastward by the town
of Harrisonburg, through Rockingham, Greene, Madison,
Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and King George counties, to
some point on the Potomac river, at or between Matthias’
Point and Quantico, with all the privileges, and subject to all
the provisions of law regulating internal improvement com-

anies,
P 2. This act shal! be in force from its passage.