CHAP. 53.—An ACT to authorize the counties of Greene and Madison
to subscribe to the stock of the Fredericksburg and Piedmont Rail-
road Company, on certain conditions.

Approved April 1, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the county court of Madison and Greene
counties to make an order requiring the sheriff, not earlier than
the fourth Thursday in May, and not later than the second
Tuesday in November, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at
a time designated in said order, not less than thirty days from
the date thereof, to open polls and take the sense of the voters
of said counties on the question whether the said counties shall
subscribe to the stock of the Potomac, Fredericksburg and
Piedmont railroad compan. to an amount not exceeding fifty
thousand dollars for the c wuty of Madison, and twenty-five
thousand dollars for the county of Greene, in bonds of the said
counties bearing interest at six per centum per annum, and to
be paid in the manner now provided by law for the payment of
such subscriptions ; but the said subscriptions are to be subject
to the condition that such bonds for one-half of the amount so
subscribed are to be delivered to the said company only when
the work of extending the said road to the county seat of said
counties shall be so far advanced that its road-bed shall be com-
pleted and in readiness to receive iron rails on every part
thereof, and the residue of the said bonds is to be so delivered
when the said extension shall be as fully completed, equipped
and operated for the regular transportation of freights and pas-
sengers as the existing line of said road.

2. The said election shail be conducted, and the ballots cast
thereat shall be counted, returned and canvassed in the manner
prescribed in chapter sixty-one of the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and ses enty-three.

- 3. If it shall appear by the report of the board of commis-
sioners appointed to count the said ballots, that three-fifths of
the qualified voters of the said counties voting upon the ques-
tion are in favor of the subscription, and that said three-fifths
includes a majority of the votes cast by freeholders at such
election, and a majority of all the registered voters of the re-
spective counties who shall have paid to the state the capitation
tax required by law for the preceding year, the said county
court shall, at its next session, enter an order requiring the
supervisors of the county to attend on a day and at a place
named in the order, to carry out the wishes of the voters as ex-
pressed at said election.

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

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