Chap. 270.—An ACT to incorporate the Whitetop turnpike company.
Approved March 14, 1878.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books in the counties of Smyth and Grayson,
under the direction of John Gross, Joel M. Perdue, Rufus M.
Gross, David Pickle, E. Gross, and M. M. McGehee, or either
of them, at such points, in either county, as they, or either
of them, may deem proper, for receiving subscriptions to the
amount of twenty thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars
each, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from a
point at or near Beattie and Jackson’s store, on the line of
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad; in Smyth county,
Virginia, to and through the Iron mountain, at Scull gap;
thence across the Garden ridge, east of the Whitetop moun-
tain; thence by the way of Bluff mountain, to and across the
Hilton road, to the most practicable point on the North
Carolina line, in Grayson county, as the company, when
incorporated, hereafter may select. .

2. When fifty shares shall have been subscribed, the sub-
scribers, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall
be and are hereby incorporated into a company, by the name
and style of The Whitetop Turnpike company, clothed with
all the powers, privileges, and franchises conferred on turn-
pike companies by the existing laws of this commonwealth:
provided that the said company shall be at liberty to dis-
pense with a summer or side road, to said turnpike, and that
it shall not be compelled to pave or cover the road with stone
or gravel, nor make it more than fifteen feet wide, and that
it shall nowhere exceed a grade of six degrees.

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