Chap. 64.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati, and St.
Louis railroad company, approved March 15th, 1872, as amended by
an act approved March 21, 1877, as amended by an act approved
April 4, 1877, in reference to times and places of holding meetings of
stockholders.

Approved February 20, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washing-
ton, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company, approved
March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as amend-
ed by an act approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, as amended by an act approved April
fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. That the capital stock of said company shall not ex-
ceed the sum of fifteen million dollars, to be divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each; and when five bundred
shares shall bave becn subscribed by persons or corporations,
under the direction of any three of the corporators herein-
before named, the subscribers shall assemble in Luray, Vir-
ginia, upon the call of the first five named corporators, or a
majority of the same, to organize the company under this
act, to elect a president and board of directors, whose terms
of office shall be three years. Subsequent elections for pres:
ident and board of directors shall be made by the stockhold-
ers in general mecting, and their terms of office shall be one
year after the first under this act. Any vacancy during the
term of office of the president or board of directors shall be
filled for the unexpired term by the said board of directors.
There shall be a general meeting of the stockholders of said
company at least once a year, upon some day to be desig-
nated by the president and board of directors; of which
mecting notice shall be given by publication in some news-
paper published in the town of Harrisonburg for at least
thirty days; and a general mecting of the stockholders may
be held at any time upon the call of stockholders represent-
ing fifty thousand dollars, upon their giving like notice by
publication of such meeting, at which meeting any business
may be transacted that should appertain to any other regu-
Jar meeting of stockholders of paid-up stock at any of the
following places: Harrisonburg or Bridgewater, in the county
of Rockingham; New Market, in the county of Shenandoah;
Monterey, in the county of Highland; and in Luray, in the
county of Page, with full power in such meetings to adjourn
at any one of said places to mect again at any other of the
places herein specified; and it is provided that no stock
shall be represented in any meeting whatever of stockholders
of this company except such as has been fully paid up.