CHAP. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act
prescribing the duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation of dis-
trict officers, and to repeal chapter 47 and section 1 of chapter 48,
Code of 1873, approved March 26, 1875.

Approved April 1, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That

‘an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers, labilities,

and compensation of district officers, and to repeal chapter
forty-seven and section one of chapter forty-eight, Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March twenty-
sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all district officers elected on the fourth Thursday in May shall,
on or before the first day of July next after their election,
qualify by taking the oaths of office before the judge for the
circuit or county court of his county, either in term time or
of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, with all the
powers and privileges, and subject to all the provisions of the
Code of Virginia respecting such corporations.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
ten thousand dollars, nor more than two hundred thousand dol-
lars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. Subscriptions to the stock of said company may be made
in money, materials or lands, and said company may also ac-
quire lands by gift or purchase, and shall have power to hold
and sell the same: provided that the amount of land so held
at any one time shall not exceed one hundred thousand acres.

4, The county of Cumberland is hereby authorized to sub-
scribe to the capital stock of the said company in the manner
and under the terms and conditions prescribed by the Code of
Virginia, and in payment of such subscription the said county
may issue its bonds, bearing six per centum interest, either
with or without coupons. And the Richmond and Alleghany
railroad company, and any mining or manufacturing company,
may subscribe to said capital stock.

5. It shall be lawful for said railroad company to borrow
money at arate of interest not execeeding six per centum per
annum, and to secure the same by mortgage or deed of trust
upon its railroad property and lands.

6. The construction of the said railroad shall be commenced
within twelve months and completed to Cumberland courthouse
within five years.

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