Chap. 294.—An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Illuminating com-
pany.

. Approved March 14, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Robert
Early, Charles W. Button, John D. Langhorne, and A. M.
Davis, with such other persons as may be associated with
them, be and they are hereby incorporated into a company,
to be known as The Lynchburg Illuminating company, with
. all the powers and privileges extended and under the limi-
tations applied to corporations under the laws of Virginia.

2. Said company shall have the right to furnish to the city
and citizens of Lynchburg, and any other portion of the
state of Virginia, electric light, or other illuminating fluid or
power, and to have privilege of extending wires or pipes,
above or below ground, for this purpose.

3. The capital stock of said company shall be not under
five thousand dollars, nor above one bundred thousand dol-
lars, to be divided into shares of such amounts as said com-
pany shall elect.

4, Said corporators shall bave the power to organize under
this charter, and elect such officers as may be deemed neces-
sary at such time as they may deem proper: provided that
such organization be perfected within one year from the
passage of this act.