CHAP. 6.—An ACT to legalize the organization of the Bristol Coal
and fron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.

Approved December 19, 1879.

Whereas in the organization of the Bristol Coal and Iron
Narrow-Gauge railroad company, on the seventeenth day of
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, all the requirements
of the charter of said company and of the general railroad
laws of the state were not fully complied with; theréfore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the organization of the said Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-
Gauge railroad company, effected on the seventeenth day of
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby declared
as legal and valid as if all the requirements of its charter and
of the general railroad law had been fully complied with; and
the said Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge railroad company,
organized on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, is hereby declared a body politic and cor-
porate, clothed with all the rights, powers, privileges and
franchises conferred by the act of the general assembly
approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-
six, and the acts amending said act, the general railroad law of
this state, and the act providing for the formation of the Vir-
ginia and Kentucky railroad company, passed March third,
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and said first-named company
shall be subject to all the liabilities and restrictions imposed
by the said several acts named above.
2. Authority is hereby conferred on the stockholders of said
ompany, in general meeting assembled, to fix the number of
he directors of said company and their term of office: pro-
rided, that the number of such directors shall not exceed nine,
ind their respective terms of office shall not exceed three years.

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