Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend the tenth section of an act to incorpo-
rate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company, and to en-
able the James River and Kanawha Company to subscribe to the
capital stock thereof.

Approved January 14, 1878.

i. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That tbe tenth
section of an act approved the twenty-seventh day of March,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled an act to ineor-
porate the Buchanan and Clifton Forge railway company,
and to enable the James river and Kanawha company to
subscribe to the capital stock thereof, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 10. The said railway shal] be commenced within eight
months and completed within five years from the passage of
this act; and if the company organized under this charter
shall, in accordance with its provisions, make a connection
between the James river and Kanawha canal and the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railroad, it shall, for the period of thirty
years, have an exclusive right to said connection, and no
franchises or privileges shall, during said period, be granted
to or enjoyed by any parallel railway along said line, or
within five miles thereof: provided the James river and
Kanawha canal is not completed to Clifton Forge before the
expiration of that period.

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