Chap. 332.—An act to confirm the acts of G. A. Perdicaris and others,
acting as an incorporated company under the name and style of The
Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company.

Approved April 4, 1877.

Whereas the Charlottesville and University gas-light com-
pany was duly organized as a corporation, under and pur-
suant to an act passed.on the cighteenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled an act to incorporate
a gas company at Charlottesville, and acted as such to the
fourteenth day of October, cighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
when all of its property, rights, privileges, and franchises
were sold under and pursuant to the terms of a deed of trust
which had been duly executed by said company to Charles
Wood and R. R. Prentis, as trustees, and the same were sub-
requently transferred and conveyed, by deed of record in the
clerk’s office of the county of Albemarle, to the said purcha-
sers by the trustees in said deed of trust; and whereas aaid
purchasers have, since the date of their said purchase, acted
as a corporation, under the name and atyle of The Charlottes-
ville and University Gas-Light Company, having issued, and
from time to time allowed to be transferred, on their books,
certificates of stock, representing the respective interests an?
shares of themselves and their assigns; and have, under said
name and style, exercised all the corporate rights, privileges,
and franchises which were conferred upon the Charlottesville
and University gas:light company by the said act of the
eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, up to
the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, when
they, by said corporate name and style, contracted to sell to
the town of Charlottesville, all the said property, rights,
franchises, and privileges, the stockholders and owners there-
of, on the said first day of June, eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-six, being G. A. Perdicaris, John Wood, Junior, Isaac Dav-
enport, Junior, Minerva Wyune, executrix and: devisee of
Thomas H. Wynne, deceased, Charles H. Harman, John S.
Davis, Francis H. Smith, and George M. McIntire; and
whereas the said town of Charlottesville has, since the said
first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, been in
the possession and use of said gas-works, and property and
franchises, under and by virtue of said contract; and whereas
doubts have been suggested as to the right of said Perdicaris
and his said associates to act as a corporation, in the man-
ner hereinbefore stated, and to make the contract of sale
aforesaid, of the said property, rights, privileges, and fran-
chises; now, therefore, for the purpose of removing all such
doubts, and of ratifying and confirming the acts of said Per-
dicaris and his associates in the premises:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the enjoyment and exercise, by the said Perdicaris and his
associates, of all the corporate rights and privileges which,
by the said act of eighteenth March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-six, were conferred upon the Charlottesville and Uni-
versity gas-light company; and all that has been done by the
said Perdicaris and his associates, under the name and style
of The Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company,
including the contract of sale aforesaid to the town of Char-
lottesville, shall be of the same force, effect, and validity, as
if they had been duly incorporated ‘by the said name and
style; and the said Perdicaris and his said associates, shall
be held and deemed to be a body politic and corporate, by
said name and style, and they and their assigns shali have
and enjoy all the rights, privileges and franchises which, by
the said act of ciehteenth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-
Six, were conferred upon said Charlottesville and University
gas-light company.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.