Chap. 86.—An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Rail-
road Company.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the following named persons, namely :
Walter N. Jobnston, John W. Robinson, R. H. Adams, Charles
A. de Russy, Henry Waterman, J. EK. Eskridge, Robert Say-
ers, Peyton G. Hall, J. L. Radford, R. P. Gilliam, William
Frazier, E. Dilton, and G. C. Wharton, as commissioners, any
five of whom acting, to proceed to and effect the organiza-
tion of an incorporated company, to be known and entitled
the Iron Belt railroad company; which said company, upon
the formation thereof in the manner herein prescribed, sball
be authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad
from some point on the James river, at or above the town of
Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, by the most practica-
ble and suitable route as may be agreed upon by said com-
pany, to the most suitable point above the narrows of New
river, in the state of Virginia.

2. The capital stock of said Iron Belt railroad shall not
exceed four millions dollars, to be divided in shares of one
hundred dollars each, each share subscribed to be entitled to
one vote in all meetings of said company, and twenty-five
thousand dollars shall be taken as the minimum subscription,
on which said company may be organized.

3. That the commissioners aforesaid, or any five of them,
may proceed in such manner as they may deem most expe-
dient to obtain subscriptions to the capital stock of said com-
pany; and it shall be lawful for any railroad or mining and

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manufacturing company, or canal company of the state of
Virginia, to subscribe to and hold stock in the said [ron Belt
railroad company, if such company be so authorized by the
charter. It shall also be lawful for any of the counties
through which said railroad may be located, or into which any
branch thereof may extend, in their corporate capacities, to
subscribe to the capital stock of the said Iron Belt railroad
company, whenever such subscription shall be authorized by a
vote of the people of any county as provided by the laws of
the state of Virginia, and to make payment of such subscrip-
tion so authorized, it shall be lawful for the said counties to
issue bonds and to secure payment of interest and principal
of the same by a specific tax upon such subjects as are taxa-
ble by the state of Virginia, sufficient to pay current interest
thereon, and to provide a sinking fund adequate to the ulti-
mate discharge of the principal thereof at maturity.

4. The Iron Belt railroad company shall have the privilege
of constructing, maintaining, and operating such branch roads
as may be necessary, as limited by statute, to bring out coal,
iron, and other ores, timber and agricultural products from
the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke, Giles, Bland,
Tazewell, Russell, Wise, Buchanan, Montgomery, Pulaski,
Wythe, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, and Washington, and the
suid railroad company may acquire ownership of land for
mining and manufacturing purposes, and shall be entitled toall
the privileges and rights conferred by the laws of Virginia
upon railroad corporations and mining and manufacturing
companies, and as such shall have perpetual succession.

5. The president and board of directors of said company
shall be elected in such manner and for such terms of office,
and the number of directors shall be such, as the stockhold-
ers may prescribe, and said company shall always have their
principal office in Virginia: provided however, that all meet-
ings of stockholders shall be held in Virginia.

6. It shall be lawful for the Iron Belt railroad company to
issue bonds for an amount not exceeding twenty-five thou-
sand dollars per mile of single track, and to secure payment
of the interest and principal of the same by a mortgage upon
the property, franchises, and so forth.

7. Subscriptions to the capital stock of said company may
be made in money, materials, or lands, and said company
may also acquire 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 two hundred
thousand acres: and provided such lands shall not be held by
said company for a longer time than thirty years.

8. That work on the Iron Belt railroad shall be com-
menced within two years, and completed within ten years,
from the passage of this act, else this charter shall be void.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage; but the
general assembly reserves the right to amend, alter, or repeal
this charter.
Chap. 86.—To incorporate the Manchester railway and land improve-
ment company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Thomas B.
Brooks, A. S. Buford, C. C. McRae, John P. Branch, Joseph
Walker, William G. Taylor, C. W. Turner, William T. Clop-
ton, J. R. Perdue, James W. Dooley, G. K. Macon, William
F. Giddings, and Jacob Houghton, and their associates suc-
cessors and assigns, be and they are hereby declared to be a
body corporate and politic, by the name of the Manchester
Railway and Land Improvement company, and by that name
and style are hereby invested with all the rights, powers, and
privileges conferred, and made subject to all the rules, regu-
ations, and restrictions imposed by the Code of Virginia, and
all general laws applicable to such institutions that are not
inconsistent with this act.

2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less
than fifteen thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of
twenty-five dollars each, five dollars per share shall be paid
in on each share subscribed, before the company shall com-
mence business; the remaining instalments may be called in
from time to time, as may be required by the board of direct-
ors; and the before named corporators, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorized and created a commission to
receive subscriptions for stock, and for this purpose they may
open books of subscription in such manner as they may
deem necessary, and keep the same open until they or other
persons, shall have subscribed the minimum amount of capi-
tal stock named; and thereafter, within their discretion, they
may call a meeting of stockholders, who may proceed fully
to organize the company—the capital stock may be increased,
from time to time, until the maximum sum named in this act
is reached. The city of Manchester is hereby authorized to
subscribe to the capital stock of the said company a sum not
exceeding ten thousand dollars; the council of said city is
hereby authorized to borrow money, to make good such sub-
scription, and is further authorized to borrow so much money
as may be necessary to improve any street or streets in said
city which may be selected by said company, for the route or
routes of its railroad; but before the council of the city of
Manchester shall subscribe stock or issue bonds as aforesaid,
they shall be authorized so to do by a vote of the qualified
voters of the city of Manchester, according to the provisions
of chapter sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, but nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed asto modify or repeal and provision
of the charter of said city, except to the extent and for the
special purposes herein mentioned. No stockholder shall be
liable for more than the stock held by him and any unpaid
quota thereon.
3. The stockholders shall prescribe trom time to time the
number of directors of said company, to be not less than five
nor more than fifteen in number, who shall manage and con-
trol all the business and affairs of said company, shall choose
a president and vlce-presicent out of their own number, and
shall appoint such other officers or agents as may be required,
and said directors, or a majority of them, shall have power
to fill vacancies in their number for the unexpired term.

4. The said company shall have power in its corporate
nature to buy, contract for, hold, sell, mortgage, encumber or
convey real estate in or within eight miles of the city of
Manchester, to erect thereon dwellings or other improve-
ments, and to rent or sell the same upon such terms as may
be agreed upon. The real estate to be held shall not at any
time exceed ten thousand acres, to be situated in and within
eight miles of the city of Manchester, and such other real
estate as may be bona fide mortgaged to the company by way
of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previ-
ously contracted or purchased at sales made to pay such
debts. Said company may also lay off and beautify squares
or parks, to be open to visitors upon such terms and under
such regulations as the company may prescribe, and said
company is also authorized to adopt suitable rules and regu-
lations to enforce the observance of good order at such parks
or squares, and may charge fees for admission to the same or
any part thereof, and it may nominate, from time to time, to
the county court, of the county in which such square or park
is situated, any number of persons it may deem proper, with-
out regard to their residence, a special police, who, when
confirmed in appointment of said court, and after being
qualified to actin pursuance of the seventeenth section, chap-
ter one hundred and ninety-six, Code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, shall have the same powers within
the boundaries of said parks or squares, and half a mile
therefrom, as are conferred on special police officers by the
aforesaid chapter one hundred and ninety-six, Code of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three. Police officers of the cities
of Richmond and Manchester shall also have the same powers
within the aforesaid limits, and such other powers as they
have within their respective corporations.

5. A conservator of the peace may be appointed for any
such park or square, with jurisdiction over the same, and
within half a mile thereof, in the manner and with the qual-
ifications and powers prescribed by the aforesaid chapter one
hundred and ninety-six, Code of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-three, in regard to conservators of the peace for water-
ing places, together with all the powers conferred by the
twenty-first section of said chapter, as amended by the act
approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
entitled an act to amend section twenty-one of chapter one
hundred and ninety-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, concerning conservators of the peace, con-
tained in Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
two hundred and one, page two hundred and twenty-two.
Such conservator of the peace shall have, in regard to all
arrests made, or offences committed within his jurisdiction,
such powers as a justice of the peace would have in regard
thereto.

6. The powers and duties of the aforesaid conservator of
the peace and police officers, shall be regulated by the pro-
visions of sections twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, and
twenty-three of chapter eleven (being sub-division of chapter
three hundred and eleven), approved March fourteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, Acts eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven and seventy-eight, page three hundred and
twenty, so far as said provisions are consistent with this act.

7. Said company is authorized to construct and operate
street railways to run over and through the streets of Man-
chester, Richmond, and the roads of Henrico and Chester-
field, and over the bridges connecting Richmond and Man-
chester for a distance not exceeding eight miles from the
city of Manchester, either as the main line or any branch
lines, which branch lines the company is hereby authorized
to construct: provided the proper authorities of the cities
and counties aforesaid, respectively, shall consent to the con-
struction of such street railway or branch lines over the
streets and roads within their limits: and provided that the
companies or owners of any of the aforesaid bridges shall
consent to the construction of the said railway over their
respective bridges—the consent of the commissioners of the
James river bridge company being sufficient in the case of
that company.

8. Said company may connect its street railway with other
street railways within the limits aforesaid, now existing, or
hereafter incorporated, with the consent of the owners of
such railways. Said company may lease the whole or any
part of its street railway and appurtenances to any other con-
necting street railway, or may lease from the owners of such
street railway the whole or any part of its street railway or
appurtenances.

9. Said company is authorized to transport over its line or
lines of railway, at such rates as it may adopt, passengers,
express matter, packages, or other freight; but if it shall
deem it proper to transport freight or other commodities, it
shall be at liberty to refuse to receive such express matter,
packages, -or other freight at its pleasure.

10. The corporators heretofore named, or any three or
more of them, are hereby authorized, at any time after the
passage of this act, and before the company is organized
thereunder, or before the capital stock, or any part of it, is
subscribed for, to enter into agreements with land-owners for
donations of lands to said company, or purchases of lands or
options to purchase the same, upon such terms and conditions
as may be agreed upon between the owners and said corpo-
rators, subject to the ratification of said company when duly
organized; and if such agreements shall be so thereafter rat-
ified, they shall be as obligatory as though the said corpora-
tors had originally full power to contract in behalf of said
company.

11. The two several acts, each, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Manchester railway and land improvement com-
pany, one approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-
two and three, chapter two hundred and seventy-two, page
two hundred and fifty, and the other approved March twen-
ty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, Acts of eighteen
hundred and seventy-five and six, chapter two hundred and
thirty-eight, page two hundred and seventy-nine, are hereby
repealed.

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

Chap. 86.—An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Rail-
road Company.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the following named persons, namely :
Walter N. Jobnston, John W. Robinson, R. H. Adams, Charles
A. de Russy, Henry Waterman, J. EK. Eskridge, Robert Say-
ers, Peyton G. Hall, J. L. Radford, R. P. Gilliam, William
Frazier, E. Dilton, and G. C. Wharton, as commissioners, any
five of whom acting, to proceed to and effect the organiza-
tion of an incorporated company, to be known and entitled
the Iron Belt railroad company; which said company, upon
the formation thereof in the manner herein prescribed, sball
be authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad
from some point on the James river, at or above the town of
Buchanan, in the county of Botetourt, by the most practica-
ble and suitable route as may be agreed upon by said com-
pany, to the most suitable point above the narrows of New
river, in the state of Virginia.

2. The capital stock of said Iron Belt railroad shall not
exceed four millions dollars, to be divided in shares of one
hundred dollars each, each share subscribed to be entitled to
one vote in all meetings of said company, and twenty-five
thousand dollars shall be taken as the minimum subscription,
on which said company may be organized.

3. That the commissioners aforesaid, or any five of them,
may proceed in such manner as they may deem most expe-
dient to obtain subscriptions to the capital stock of said com-
pany; and it shall be lawful for any railroad or mining and

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manufacturing company, or canal company of the state of
Virginia, to subscribe to and hold stock in the said [ron Belt
railroad company, if such company be so authorized by the
charter. It shall also be lawful for any of the counties
through which said railroad may be located, or into which any
branch thereof may extend, in their corporate capacities, to
subscribe to the capital stock of the said Iron Belt railroad
company, whenever such subscription shall be authorized by a
vote of the people of any county as provided by the laws of
the state of Virginia, and to make payment of such subscrip-
tion so authorized, it shall be lawful for the said counties to
issue bonds and to secure payment of interest and principal
of the same by a specific tax upon such subjects as are taxa-
ble by the state of Virginia, sufficient to pay current interest
thereon, and to provide a sinking fund adequate to the ulti-
mate discharge of the principal thereof at maturity.

4. The Iron Belt railroad company shall have the privilege
of constructing, maintaining, and operating such branch roads
as may be necessary, as limited by statute, to bring out coal,
iron, and other ores, timber and agricultural products from
the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Roanoke, Giles, Bland,
Tazewell, Russell, Wise, Buchanan, Montgomery, Pulaski,
Wythe, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, and Washington, and the
suid railroad company may acquire ownership of land for
mining and manufacturing purposes, and shall be entitled toall
the privileges and rights conferred by the laws of Virginia
upon railroad corporations and mining and manufacturing
companies, and as such shall have perpetual succession.

5. The president and board of directors of said company
shall be elected in such manner and for such terms of office,
and the number of directors shall be such, as the stockhold-
ers may prescribe, and said company shall always have their
principal office in Virginia: provided however, that all meet-
ings of stockholders shall be held in Virginia.

6. It shall be lawful for the Iron Belt railroad company to
issue bonds for an amount not exceeding twenty-five thou-
sand dollars per mile of single track, and to secure payment
of the interest and principal of the same by a mortgage upon
the property, franchises, and so forth.

7. Subscriptions to the capital stock of said company may
be made in money, materials, or lands, and said company
may also acquire 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 two hundred
thousand acres: and provided such lands shall not be held by
said company for a longer time than thirty years.

8. That work on the Iron Belt railroad shall be com-
menced within two years, and completed within ten years,
from the passage of this act, else this charter shall be void.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage; but the
general assembly reserves the right to amend, alter, or repeal
this charter.
Chap. 86.—To incorporate the Manchester railway and land improve-
ment company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Thomas B.
Brooks, A. S. Buford, C. C. McRae, John P. Branch, Joseph
Walker, William G. Taylor, C. W. Turner, William T. Clop-
ton, J. R. Perdue, James W. Dooley, G. K. Macon, William
F. Giddings, and Jacob Houghton, and their associates suc-
cessors and assigns, be and they are hereby declared to be a
body corporate and politic, by the name of the Manchester
Railway and Land Improvement company, and by that name
and style are hereby invested with all the rights, powers, and
privileges conferred, and made subject to all the rules, regu-
ations, and restrictions imposed by the Code of Virginia, and
all general laws applicable to such institutions that are not
inconsistent with this act.

2. The capital stock of said corporation shall not be less
than fifteen thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of
twenty-five dollars each, five dollars per share shall be paid
in on each share subscribed, before the company shall com-
mence business; the remaining instalments may be called in
from time to time, as may be required by the board of direct-
ors; and the before named corporators, or a majority of
them, are hereby authorized and created a commission to
receive subscriptions for stock, and for this purpose they may
open books of subscription in such manner as they may
deem necessary, and keep the same open until they or other
persons, shall have subscribed the minimum amount of capi-
tal stock named; and thereafter, within their discretion, they
may call a meeting of stockholders, who may proceed fully
to organize the company—the capital stock may be increased,
from time to time, until the maximum sum named in this act
is reached. The city of Manchester is hereby authorized to
subscribe to the capital stock of the said company a sum not
exceeding ten thousand dollars; the council of said city is
hereby authorized to borrow money, to make good such sub-
scription, and is further authorized to borrow so much money
as may be necessary to improve any street or streets in said
city which may be selected by said company, for the route or
routes of its railroad; but before the council of the city of
Manchester shall subscribe stock or issue bonds as aforesaid,
they shall be authorized so to do by a vote of the qualified
voters of the city of Manchester, according to the provisions
of chapter sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, edition of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, but nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed asto modify or repeal and provision
of the charter of said city, except to the extent and for the
special purposes herein mentioned. No stockholder shall be
liable for more than the stock held by him and any unpaid
quota thereon.
3. The stockholders shall prescribe trom time to time the
number of directors of said company, to be not less than five
nor more than fifteen in number, who shall manage and con-
trol all the business and affairs of said company, shall choose
a president and vlce-presicent out of their own number, and
shall appoint such other officers or agents as may be required,
and said directors, or a majority of them, shall have power
to fill vacancies in their number for the unexpired term.

4. The said company shall have power in its corporate
nature to buy, contract for, hold, sell, mortgage, encumber or
convey real estate in or within eight miles of the city of
Manchester, to erect thereon dwellings or other improve-
ments, and to rent or sell the same upon such terms as may
be agreed upon. The real estate to be held shall not at any
time exceed ten thousand acres, to be situated in and within
eight miles of the city of Manchester, and such other real
estate as may be bona fide mortgaged to the company by way
of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previ-
ously contracted or purchased at sales made to pay such
debts. Said company may also lay off and beautify squares
or parks, to be open to visitors upon such terms and under
such regulations as the company may prescribe, and said
company is also authorized to adopt suitable rules and regu-
lations to enforce the observance of good order at such parks
or squares, and may charge fees for admission to the same or
any part thereof, and it may nominate, from time to time, to
the county court, of the county in which such square or park
is situated, any number of persons it may deem proper, with-
out regard to their residence, a special police, who, when
confirmed in appointment of said court, and after being
qualified to actin pursuance of the seventeenth section, chap-
ter one hundred and ninety-six, Code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, shall have the same powers within
the boundaries of said parks or squares, and half a mile
therefrom, as are conferred on special police officers by the
aforesaid chapter one hundred and ninety-six, Code of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three. Police officers of the cities
of Richmond and Manchester shall also have the same powers
within the aforesaid limits, and such other powers as they
have within their respective corporations.

5. A conservator of the peace may be appointed for any
such park or square, with jurisdiction over the same, and
within half a mile thereof, in the manner and with the qual-
ifications and powers prescribed by the aforesaid chapter one
hundred and ninety-six, Code of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-three, in regard to conservators of the peace for water-
ing places, together with all the powers conferred by the
twenty-first section of said chapter, as amended by the act
approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
entitled an act to amend section twenty-one of chapter one
hundred and ninety-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, concerning conservators of the peace, con-
tained in Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
two hundred and one, page two hundred and twenty-two.
Such conservator of the peace shall have, in regard to all
arrests made, or offences committed within his jurisdiction,
such powers as a justice of the peace would have in regard
thereto.

6. The powers and duties of the aforesaid conservator of
the peace and police officers, shall be regulated by the pro-
visions of sections twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, and
twenty-three of chapter eleven (being sub-division of chapter
three hundred and eleven), approved March fourteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, Acts eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven and seventy-eight, page three hundred and
twenty, so far as said provisions are consistent with this act.

7. Said company is authorized to construct and operate
street railways to run over and through the streets of Man-
chester, Richmond, and the roads of Henrico and Chester-
field, and over the bridges connecting Richmond and Man-
chester for a distance not exceeding eight miles from the
city of Manchester, either as the main line or any branch
lines, which branch lines the company is hereby authorized
to construct: provided the proper authorities of the cities
and counties aforesaid, respectively, shall consent to the con-
struction of such street railway or branch lines over the
streets and roads within their limits: and provided that the
companies or owners of any of the aforesaid bridges shall
consent to the construction of the said railway over their
respective bridges—the consent of the commissioners of the
James river bridge company being sufficient in the case of
that company.

8. Said company may connect its street railway with other
street railways within the limits aforesaid, now existing, or
hereafter incorporated, with the consent of the owners of
such railways. Said company may lease the whole or any
part of its street railway and appurtenances to any other con-
necting street railway, or may lease from the owners of such
street railway the whole or any part of its street railway or
appurtenances.

9. Said company is authorized to transport over its line or
lines of railway, at such rates as it may adopt, passengers,
express matter, packages, or other freight; but if it shall
deem it proper to transport freight or other commodities, it
shall be at liberty to refuse to receive such express matter,
packages, -or other freight at its pleasure.

10. The corporators heretofore named, or any three or
more of them, are hereby authorized, at any time after the
passage of this act, and before the company is organized
thereunder, or before the capital stock, or any part of it, is
subscribed for, to enter into agreements with land-owners for
donations of lands to said company, or purchases of lands or
options to purchase the same, upon such terms and conditions
as may be agreed upon between the owners and said corpo-
rators, subject to the ratification of said company when duly
organized; and if such agreements shall be so thereafter rat-
ified, they shall be as obligatory as though the said corpora-
tors had originally full power to contract in behalf of said
company.

11. The two several acts, each, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Manchester railway and land improvement com-
pany, one approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-
two and three, chapter two hundred and seventy-two, page
two hundred and fifty, and the other approved March twen-
ty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, Acts of eighteen
hundred and seventy-five and six, chapter two hundred and
thirty-eight, page two hundred and seventy-nine, are hereby
repealed.

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