CHAP. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, five, six,
seven, and eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Rich-
mond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company,
approved March 8, 1880.

Approved February 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
‘ections two, four, five, six, seven, and eight of an act enti-
ed an act to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Ter-
minal Railway and Warehouse Company, approved March
‘ight, eighteen hundred and eighty, be.and the same are
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, viz:

§ 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each, but the same may be increased from
time to time to such amount, and issued at such price as the
board of directors may determine; and for the purpose of
obtaining subscriptions to said capital stock, any three of
the persons named in the foregoing section may open books
of subscription at such times and places as they may appoint,
and such subscriptions may be made payable in the stock,
bonds, or other property, real or personal, of any corpora-
tion or individual—the value of such stock, bonds, or other
property, real or personal, to be agreed upon between the
subscriber and the company at the time of the subscription.

§ 4. The said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway
and warehouse company is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to erect and construct at or near the city of Richmond,
and at or near the town of West Point, Virginia, and at or
near any other point on deep water on the James or York
river, or Humpton roads, wharves, piers, docks, basins, ware-
houses, elevators, cotton presses, suitable for the accommoda-
tion of steamships, vessels, and boats, and for the convenient
loading, unloading, shipping, receiving, and storing of all
kinds of merchandise and personal property for safe keep-
ing, and may conduct the: business usually transacted by
warehousemen, wharfingers, and lightermen, and may charge
and collect compensation for the storage, dockage, wharfage,
and lighterage, and for all labor incident thereto, including
the expense of weighing, insuring, keeping, and delivering
such merchandise or personal property, at such rates and on
such terms as may be agreed upon between it and its cus-
tomers; and for any advances made by it on merchandise or
property stored or deposited with it for shipment, and for all
charges and expenses incident thereto, the said company
shall have preferred lien on said merchandise and property,
which shall be paid before the said company shall be required
to deliver the same.

§ 5. That for convenience of access to such improvements,
the said company shall also have authority to construct,
equip, and operate one or more railways, with all necessary
sidings and branches (the latter not to exceed fifteen miles in
length), from any of said structures to such point or points of
convenient connection with each or any line of railway pass-
we through or terminating at or near either Richmond or

est Point, Virginia, as the said company shall determine,
and for that purpose may acquirc title in the mode prescribed
by law to a continuous line of one hundred feet in width of
land, and such additional lands as may be necessary for the
use of said roads and tracks and for the buildings and works
of said company.

§ 6. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect the railways owned, operated, or controlled
by it, with any line of railway constructed or which may be
constructed in this state, upon such terms as may be agreed
upon between it and such other railway company; and for
this purpose power is hereby granted to it and to any rail-
way company incorporated by this state, to make and carry

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out such contracts—by lease, purchase, or otherwise, as will
facilitate and consummate such connnection or consolidation.
§ 7. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company with
wich said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway and
warehouse company may connect, is hereby authorized to
acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any portion
of the capital stock of said company; and said company is
authorized to acquire, in like manner, any portion of the
capital stock of any such railway, steamship, or navigation
company, and stock so acquired shall have the same privi-
leges and powers, and be subject to the same conditions and
regulations, as the stock held by other stockholders therein.
8. The said company is hereby authorized to acquire by
subscription, purchase, or otherwise, or to guarantee any
portion of the capital stock or bonds of any company organ-
ized for or engaged in the building, construction, or opera-
tion of any line of railroad in this state or in the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Ken-
tucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
or Texas, which may have been or may hereafter be con-
structed : provided, that before the rights hereby conferred
shall become vested, and before the actual work of construc-
tion shall commence, at least one hundred thousand dollars
shall have subscribed to the stock and twenty per cent. paid
thereupon: and provided further, that there shall be depos-
ited with the treasurer of the commonwealth, under his
official bond, twenty thousand dollars, either in money or
bonds approved by the treasurer, to be held for such officer
tothe credit ot the president and board of directors of the
said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway and ware-
house company, and subject to their order when and only
after the like amount of twenty thousand dollars has been
expended upon the said railroad, and the same so certified to
treasurer of the commonwealth by the railroad commis-
sioner, whose duty it shall be to make such examination and
certificate without delay, upon application.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHAP. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, five, six,
seven, and eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Rich-
mond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company,
approved March 8, 1880.

Approved February 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
‘ections two, four, five, six, seven, and eight of an act enti-
ed an act to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Ter-
minal Railway and Warehouse Company, approved March
‘ight, eighteen hundred and eighty, be.and the same are
hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, viz:

§ 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each, but the same may be increased from
time to time to such amount, and issued at such price as the
board of directors may determine; and for the purpose of
obtaining subscriptions to said capital stock, any three of
the persons named in the foregoing section may open books
of subscription at such times and places as they may appoint,
and such subscriptions may be made payable in the stock,
bonds, or other property, real or personal, of any corpora-
tion or individual—the value of such stock, bonds, or other
property, real or personal, to be agreed upon between the
subscriber and the company at the time of the subscription.

§ 4. The said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway
and warehouse company is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to erect and construct at or near the city of Richmond,
and at or near the town of West Point, Virginia, and at or
near any other point on deep water on the James or York
river, or Humpton roads, wharves, piers, docks, basins, ware-
houses, elevators, cotton presses, suitable for the accommoda-
tion of steamships, vessels, and boats, and for the convenient
loading, unloading, shipping, receiving, and storing of all
kinds of merchandise and personal property for safe keep-
ing, and may conduct the: business usually transacted by
warehousemen, wharfingers, and lightermen, and may charge
and collect compensation for the storage, dockage, wharfage,
and lighterage, and for all labor incident thereto, including
the expense of weighing, insuring, keeping, and delivering
such merchandise or personal property, at such rates and on
such terms as may be agreed upon between it and its cus-
tomers; and for any advances made by it on merchandise or
property stored or deposited with it for shipment, and for all
charges and expenses incident thereto, the said company
shall have preferred lien on said merchandise and property,
which shall be paid before the said company shall be required
to deliver the same.

§ 5. That for convenience of access to such improvements,
the said company shall also have authority to construct,
equip, and operate one or more railways, with all necessary
sidings and branches (the latter not to exceed fifteen miles in
length), from any of said structures to such point or points of
convenient connection with each or any line of railway pass-
we through or terminating at or near either Richmond or

est Point, Virginia, as the said company shall determine,
and for that purpose may acquirc title in the mode prescribed
by law to a continuous line of one hundred feet in width of
land, and such additional lands as may be necessary for the
use of said roads and tracks and for the buildings and works
of said company.

§ 6. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect the railways owned, operated, or controlled
by it, with any line of railway constructed or which may be
constructed in this state, upon such terms as may be agreed
upon between it and such other railway company; and for
this purpose power is hereby granted to it and to any rail-
way company incorporated by this state, to make and carry

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out such contracts—by lease, purchase, or otherwise, as will
facilitate and consummate such connnection or consolidation.
§ 7. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company with
wich said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway and
warehouse company may connect, is hereby authorized to
acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any portion
of the capital stock of said company; and said company is
authorized to acquire, in like manner, any portion of the
capital stock of any such railway, steamship, or navigation
company, and stock so acquired shall have the same privi-
leges and powers, and be subject to the same conditions and
regulations, as the stock held by other stockholders therein.
8. The said company is hereby authorized to acquire by
subscription, purchase, or otherwise, or to guarantee any
portion of the capital stock or bonds of any company organ-
ized for or engaged in the building, construction, or opera-
tion of any line of railroad in this state or in the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Ken-
tucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas,
or Texas, which may have been or may hereafter be con-
structed : provided, that before the rights hereby conferred
shall become vested, and before the actual work of construc-
tion shall commence, at least one hundred thousand dollars
shall have subscribed to the stock and twenty per cent. paid
thereupon: and provided further, that there shall be depos-
ited with the treasurer of the commonwealth, under his
official bond, twenty thousand dollars, either in money or
bonds approved by the treasurer, to be held for such officer
tothe credit ot the president and board of directors of the
said Richmond and West Point Terminal railway and ware-
house company, and subject to their order when and only
after the like amount of twenty thousand dollars has been
expended upon the said railroad, and the same so certified to
treasurer of the commonwealth by the railroad commis-
sioner, whose duty it shall be to make such examination and
certificate without delay, upon application.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.