Chap. 68.—An ACT to incorporate the Big Quarry Slate Company.
Approved February 4, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John R. Blackburn, of Nelson county, Virginia, Robert T.
Hubbard, John W. Fisher, William G. Crenshaw, A. Y.
Stokes, and John R. Williama, of Richmond, Virginia, or
such of them as accept the provisions of this act, their asso-
ciates, and successors be and they are hereby created and
made a body politic and corporate, under the name and style
of The Big Quarry Slate Company. Under this name they
may sue and be sued; may exercise all the powers and privi-
leges conferred, and shall be subject to all the restrictions
imposed upon like mining and manufacturing companies
under the general laws of the commonwealth now in force,
or which may be hereafter enacted, except so far as they may
be in conflict. with this act.

2. The capital stock of the company shall be divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall not be less than
twenty thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred
thousand dollars. As soon as the minimum amount has
been subscribed, the company may be organized, and
shall be authorized to exercise the corporate powers con-
ferred by this act. The company may, from time to time,
increase its capital stock by subscriptions, or by the issue of
additional scrip to its shareholders to represent actual
enhancement of values of its assets by the opening and
development of its property.

3. The principal office of said company shall be in the city
of Richmond, state of Virginia; but it may establish offices
and agencies for the sale of its products in any county, town
or ry ot’ Virginia, or any other state of the United States.

he said company may acquire, by purchase or lease,
and hold the Perrow Big quarry and tract of land on Hunt’s
creek, in the county of Buckingham, Virginia, and any other
slate or mineral lands in said county, not to exceed twenty
thousand acres at any one time, such real estate in the city
of Richmond, not exceeding two acres, as it may need for its
general offices, tor the handling, manufacture, storage, ship-

ment. or sale of its products, and such real estate as may be
necessary tor offices and warerooms in any other county,
town. or city. and may receive subscriptions to its stock in
land or machinery.

5. Said company shall be authorized and empowered to
nine any metals or minerals found on their lands; to quarry
slate.and to fashion and manufacture slate and other mineral
products into any kind of ornamental or useful article for
which such slate or other products may be adapted.

6. The said company may, for the purposes of its organi-
zation, borrow money, from time to time, and negotiate its
paper or issue its bonds, secured by liens upon its “property.

The business of the company shall be conducted and
managed by a president and board of (not less than three)
directors—the president to constitute one of the number, ex-
officio—and such other officers and agents as the company
may Chouse. The powers and duties of the sevoral officers of
the company shall be such as the by-laws, rules and regula-
iiong, to he adopted by the company from time to time, may
prescribe.

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

Chap. 68.—An ACT to authorize the trustees of the John Wesley
Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg to sell and purchase
property and to borrow money.

Approved February 4, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church,
in the town of Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, Vir-
vinia, are authorized and empowered to sell and convey any
personal property and any real estate heretofore conveyed to
them or their predecessors as trustees for said church, and to
invest the eistcasie of such sale in other property; and such
property shall be held upon the same trusts, and for the same
uses, as the same property sold was held upon.

2. Said trustees, or their successors, shal] have power to
borrow money and execute deeds of trust on any property
held by them in trust, and to secure the same at a rate of
interest not exceeding eight per centum per annum.

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

Chap. 68.— JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize and direct the super-
intendent of the penitentiary to furnish convict labor to the Holly-
wood and Oakwood Memorial Associations, to keep in order the
graves of the Confederate soldiers of the army of Northern Virginia
buried in Hollywood and Oakwood cemeteries.

Approved April 21, 1882.

Resolved (the senate concurring), That the superintendent
of the penitentiary be, and he is hereby authorized and direct-
ed, to furnish to the Hollywood and Oakwood memorial
associations, from time to time, as may be necessary, a suffi-
cient force of convict labor to keep in order the graves and
sections wherein are buried the Confederate soldiers of the
army of Northern Virginia, in Hollywood and Oakwood
cemeteries.

2. This joint resolution shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 68.—An ACT to incorporate the Big Quarry Slate Company.
Approved February 4, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John R. Blackburn, of Nelson county, Virginia, Robert T.
Hubbard, John W. Fisher, William G. Crenshaw, A. Y.
Stokes, and John R. Williama, of Richmond, Virginia, or
such of them as accept the provisions of this act, their asso-
ciates, and successors be and they are hereby created and
made a body politic and corporate, under the name and style
of The Big Quarry Slate Company. Under this name they
may sue and be sued; may exercise all the powers and privi-
leges conferred, and shall be subject to all the restrictions
imposed upon like mining and manufacturing companies
under the general laws of the commonwealth now in force,
or which may be hereafter enacted, except so far as they may
be in conflict. with this act.

2. The capital stock of the company shall be divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall not be less than
twenty thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred
thousand dollars. As soon as the minimum amount has
been subscribed, the company may be organized, and
shall be authorized to exercise the corporate powers con-
ferred by this act. The company may, from time to time,
increase its capital stock by subscriptions, or by the issue of
additional scrip to its shareholders to represent actual
enhancement of values of its assets by the opening and
development of its property.

3. The principal office of said company shall be in the city
of Richmond, state of Virginia; but it may establish offices
and agencies for the sale of its products in any county, town
or ry ot’ Virginia, or any other state of the United States.

he said company may acquire, by purchase or lease,
and hold the Perrow Big quarry and tract of land on Hunt’s
creek, in the county of Buckingham, Virginia, and any other
slate or mineral lands in said county, not to exceed twenty
thousand acres at any one time, such real estate in the city
of Richmond, not exceeding two acres, as it may need for its
general offices, tor the handling, manufacture, storage, ship-

ment. or sale of its products, and such real estate as may be
necessary tor offices and warerooms in any other county,
town. or city. and may receive subscriptions to its stock in
land or machinery.

5. Said company shall be authorized and empowered to
nine any metals or minerals found on their lands; to quarry
slate.and to fashion and manufacture slate and other mineral
products into any kind of ornamental or useful article for
which such slate or other products may be adapted.

6. The said company may, for the purposes of its organi-
zation, borrow money, from time to time, and negotiate its
paper or issue its bonds, secured by liens upon its “property.

The business of the company shall be conducted and
managed by a president and board of (not less than three)
directors—the president to constitute one of the number, ex-
officio—and such other officers and agents as the company
may Chouse. The powers and duties of the sevoral officers of
the company shall be such as the by-laws, rules and regula-
iiong, to he adopted by the company from time to time, may
prescribe.

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

Chap. 68.—An ACT to authorize the trustees of the John Wesley
Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg to sell and purchase
property and to borrow money.

Approved February 4, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church,
in the town of Harrisonburg, Rockingham county, Vir-
vinia, are authorized and empowered to sell and convey any
personal property and any real estate heretofore conveyed to
them or their predecessors as trustees for said church, and to
invest the eistcasie of such sale in other property; and such
property shall be held upon the same trusts, and for the same
uses, as the same property sold was held upon.

2. Said trustees, or their successors, shal] have power to
borrow money and execute deeds of trust on any property
held by them in trust, and to secure the same at a rate of
interest not exceeding eight per centum per annum.

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

Chap. 68.— JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize and direct the super-
intendent of the penitentiary to furnish convict labor to the Holly-
wood and Oakwood Memorial Associations, to keep in order the
graves of the Confederate soldiers of the army of Northern Virginia
buried in Hollywood and Oakwood cemeteries.

Approved April 21, 1882.

Resolved (the senate concurring), That the superintendent
of the penitentiary be, and he is hereby authorized and direct-
ed, to furnish to the Hollywood and Oakwood memorial
associations, from time to time, as may be necessary, a suffi-
cient force of convict labor to keep in order the graves and
sections wherein are buried the Confederate soldiers of the
army of Northern Virginia, in Hollywood and Oakwood
cemeteries.

2. This joint resolution shall be in force from its passage.