Chap. 216.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of the act
incorporating the Bristol coal and iron narrow-gauge railroad com-
pany.

Approved March 12, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bristol:
coal and iron narrow gauge railroad company, and to trans-:
fer to it certain franchises, rights, privileges, and properties
of. the Virginia and Kentucky railroad company, approved:
March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, .
be amended and re-enacted eo as to read as follows:
§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That James
M. Barker, James H. Wood, Joseph R. Anderson, Isaac B.
Dunn, W. W. James, and Z. L. Burson, of Goodson, Virginia;
John Jett, H. W. Holdway, H.S. R. Morrison, M. B. Wood,
Ira P. Robinett, John Wolfenbarger, R. B. Fugate, James H.
Horton, and C. C. Duff, of Scott county; A. J. Litton, Peter
C. Allen, A. L. Pridemore, Patrick Hagan, William F.
Edmunds, Marion D. Richmond, and J. M. McElroy, of Lee
county; Henry C. Slemp, Hiram Riggs, Hillington Wells,
Morgan T. Lipps, George W. Kilgore, Jessee B. Hylton, H.
H. Dodson, and Jeremiah Chase, their associates and succes-
sors, be and they are hereby incorporated, and made a body
politic and corporate, by the name of The Bristol Coal and
Iron Narrow-Gauge railroad company, for the purpose of
building, equipping, and operating a railroad, from Bristol-
Goodson, in Washington county, via Estillville and Speer’s
ferry, in Scott county, to Cumberland gap, in Lee county.

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