Chap. 64.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Towing Company.
Approved January 28, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of
Virginia, That Thomas W. McCance, W. E. Cutshaw, Maxwell
T. Clarke, Williams C. Wickham, John A. Curtis, William E.
Sparrow, J. J. Lyell, William H. Scott, J. N. Parker, W. S.
Upshur, E. Clayton, Frederick R. Scott, H. T. Wickham, R.
A. Dunlop, and Lewis D. Crenshaw, Junior, and such other
persons as they may hereafter associate with them, shall be
and they are hereby made and constituted a body politic and
corporate, under the name and style of The Virginia Towing
Company, for the purpose of towing and transporting, by
steamer or otherwise, freight and passengers upon the waters
of the state of Virginia, and to or from any port within said
state from or to such other places as they may desire.
2. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said com-
pany shall not exceed the sum of one million dollars, divided
into shares of one hundred dollars each; and at all meetings
of the stockholders each shar2 shall be entitled to one vote.

8. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the
right to purchase, hold, and employ such steam and other boats
and ships, lands, wharves, and warehouses as their business
may require, not exceeding, however, one hundred acres of
land.

4. Be it further enacted, That said company may borrow
money upon the issue of their bonds or other evidences of
debt, bearing interest not exceeding eight per centum per
annum, and to pledge, by deed of trust or otherwise, its pro-
perty and francnises for the payment of the same.

5. Be it further enacted, That the principal “office of said
company shall be in the city of Richmond, Virginia, and that
the affairs of said company shall be managed by such officers
as it may designate, with power to make such by-laws, rules,
and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, as
they may deem proper for the government and management of
said company. ;

6. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Vir-
ginia towing and transportation company to consolidate with
The Virginia Towing Company, when organized, or for the
stockholders of the said Virginia towing and transportation
company, in general meeting, to accept the benefits of the
charter hereby granted; in which event the said company shall
be hereafter known as The Virginia Towing Company, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits, rights, interests, and privi-
leges hereby granted, or to which The Virginia Towing Com-
pany may or might be entitled if organized under the provi-
sions of this act; but nothing herein contained shall in any
manner affect any contract or act of said company, but the
same shall be taken and deemed to be the act of The Virginia
Towing Company.

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

Chap. 64.—An ACT to authorize the sale of certain church property
belonging to the vestrymen of St. Andrew’s Protestant Episeopal
ehureh, Beckford parish, county of Shenandoah, to make a valid
title to the same, and to re-invest the proceeds of the sale.

Approved February 1, 1879.

Whereas on the twentieth day of April, seventeen hundred
and seventy-four, Abraham Browbaker, by deed, duly recorded
in Shenandoah county clerk’s office, conveyed to certain per-
sons styled gentlemen, vestrymen of the parish of Beckford, in
said county, and their successors in office, for the purpose of
building and supporting a church for public worship, in the
town of Woodstock, in the county of Shenandoah, and for
other purposes in said deed specified, two lots of ground desig-
nated as lots one hundred and thirteen and one hundred and
forty-four, in the plan of said town; and whereas Jolin G.
Meem, Gilbert S. Meem, George Newland, A. G. Wynkoop,
Joseph R. Peachy, Leonidas Triplett, Junior, Joseph Spangler,
and Jo3seph B. Strayer, vestrymen of Saint Andrew’s Protestant
Episcopal church, Beckford parish, in the county of Shenan-
doah, are the duly appointed successors of the vestrymen named
in said deed ; and whereas, in order to provide for the building
of a church on said lots and supporting the same, and otherwise
to give effect to the purposes of said Abraham Browbaker, as
set forth in said deed, it will be necessary to sell a portion of
said lots, and said vestrymen desiring that power be given them
to make such sales:

1. Be it, therefore, enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That it shall be lawful for the trustees who may have
been or may be appointed, according to law, to hold the legal
title to the two lots specified and described in said. deed, and
other property in the town of Woodstock aforesaid, for the use
and benefit of the congregation of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in the United States of America, in said town and
within said Beckford parish, to sell, and appoint one of their
own number to convey, such part or parts of said lots as the
said vestrymen of Saint Andrew's church, Beckford parish, or
their successors, in vestry meeting assembled, may designate ;
and the proceeds of such sale shall be paid to and expended by
said vestrymen and their successors in building on said lots, or
one of them, a church and other structures for church purposes,
and for the use of the congregation in Woodstock, Beckford
parish aforesaid, belonging to or attached to the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States of America and their
successors forever, and for no other purpose whatever. But
before such sale shall be made, or the proceeds thereof paid
over to said vestrymen, one or more of them shall enter into
and acknowledge before the judge of the circuit court of Shen-
andoah county, in open court, with one or more sufficient sure-
ties, a bond, to be approved by such judge as to the penalty
and suificiency thereof, conditioned for the application of the
proceeds of such sales to the purposes aforesaid; and any
member of said congregation may, by action or motion accord-
ing to law, enforce the conditions of said bond: provided, how-
ever, that in case within the limits of the part or parts of said
lots proposed to be sold there be the remains of deceased per-
sons, unless the friends or relations of such deceased persons
shall remove such remains to other places of burial, the said
trustees shall cause such reinains to be carefully removed to
other suitable places of interment within such portions of said
lots as may not bé sold and not now oceupied by graves, or to
some cemetery or burial-ground in or near Woodstock, as their
friends or relations may elect; and the costs of such removal,
including the purchase of suitable cemetery lots, unless other-
wi e defrayed, to be paid ont of the proceeds of sale: and pro-
vided, further, that the remains of the Confederate dead, should
that portion of said lots be sold, be removed to such place or
places pf burial within the corporation of Woodstock, and in
such manner as the council of said town may designate; and
the custs of such removal, including the purchase of a suitable
burial-cround, unless otherwise defrayed, to be paid out of the
proceeds of sale: and provided, further, that the legal title to
a part of said lots—which said part is bounded as follows:
beginning at the corner of lot number one hundred and forty-
four, made by the intersection of Court and Church streets, then
running with Court street west one hundred feet; then across
said lot in a line parallel with Church street to M. Geary’s line;
then with said M. Geary’s line, east to Church street; then
north with Church street to the beginning—shall be vested in
the trustees of the Presbyterian church of Woodstock, Virginia,
and their successors, on the payment by said trustees ef the
sum of one hundred dollars to such of said vestrymen as may
execute bond as aforesaid.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.