Chap. 87.—An ACT to change the location of the courthouse of Dick-
enson county.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the court-
house of Dickenson county, as located on McClure creek, at
or near the mouth of Cary creek, by the first section of an
act entitled an act to establish the county of Dickenson out of
parts of Russell, Wise, and Buchanan, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty, be and the same is hereby
changed to Holly creek, on the main road from Gladeville to
Grundy, at some point between the dwelling house of James
P. Kilgore and the dwelling house of William Hylton, to be
called Clintwood, and the clerks of the county courts of
Buchanan, Wise, and Scott counties, any two of whom may
act, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners to select
the site for a courthouse, jail, and other public buildings for said
county of Dickenson, and are hereby required to meet at the
place herein designated, on the first Monday in April next,
or as soon thereafter as practicable, and ascertain and deter-
mine at what point or place it is most suitable and proper to
erect a courthouse, and such other necessary public buildings
and fixtures as the convenience of the county requires, under
existing laws for holding court and conducting business inci-
dent thereto, and shall lay off, in the most convenient form,
a lot or lots of land for that purpose, not exceeding two acres
in quantity, and shall ascertain the value thereof. Whereupon
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, acting in this
behalf, shall make their report in writing to the county court
of said Dickenson county, of the manner in which they shall
have executed the duties required of them by this act, and
of their proceeding in relation thereto, designating the point
and place agreed upon, the value of the lot or lots of land,
and name or names of the owner or the owners thereof; and
the place so ascertained and determined upon by the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be the permanent
place for holding the courts of the county of Dickenson, now
required by law to be holden for the several counties of this
commonwealth. And the court of the county of Dickenson
shall, thereupon, provide for the payment of the valuation of
said lot or lots of land so ascertained, in the manner now
required by law, where lands shall not be already provided
and appropriated for that purpose.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHapP. 88.—An ACT to incorporate the Carroll] Mineral Company.
Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John Cooke, Robert B. Haines, Isaac J. Wistar, William
Hacker and J. Waln Vaux, are hereby appointed commis-
sioners, and a majority of them are authorized, with or with-
out notice, and within or without the limits of this state, to
open books and receive subscriptions, and organize a com-
pany by the name, style and title of the Carroll Mineral
Company, with the right of perpetual succession, of making
and using a common or corporate seal, of suing and being
aued, and such other rights as are hereinafter conferred.

2. The said corporation shall have the right to purchase,
lease, hold, improve and convey lands in this state, not ex-
ceeding thirty thousand acres at any one time, and the capt-
tal of said company may be employed in mining, purchasing,
smelting, vending and transporting to market, ore, minerals
and other freight, and in such other objects as may be con-
sidered expedient and necessary in the prosecution of their
business.

3. The said corporation shall have the right to construct a
railroad and appurtenances from their lands, by the most
practicable route, to the nearest railroad within the state,
with the right to construct lateral roads, not exceeding ten
miles each in length, and to equip and operate the same, and
to connect with, and to purcbase and hold the stock and
securities of any railroad or public improvement now or
hereafter constructed; and whenever any section or sections,
of three miles or more of such railroad shall be completed, the
said company may use and enjoy the same in the same man-
ner as when the entire length thereof shall be completed.

4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of
five thousand shares of ten dollars each, with the privilege
of increasing the same, from time to time, to an amount
necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this
act; and the satd company, by the affirmative vote of the
registered holders of not less than three-fourths of its stock,
at any general meeting of shareholders, may borrow money
to an amount not exceeding, together with all other indebt-
edness existing at the time, one-half the amount of the capi-
tal stock outstanding at the time, at any rate of interest not
inconsistent with the laws of this state, and may issue bonds
therefor, and may secure the same by mortgage, or mort-
gages, upon any or all of their property and franchises.

. That whenever the parties cannot agree upon the dam-
ages claimed for land or materials taken or required by said
company in the prosecution of their works, the company
may proceed in all respects, as provided by law for any other
railroad company incorporated under the laws of Virginia,
and shall be subject to the general railroad laws of the state
in all other respects.
. 6. That said company is authorized to hold its princi-
pal office for the transaction of business, at any place in this
state, and may at its discretion, require that the president
and directors, or any specified portion of them, may reside
in or out of this state: provided that the service of any legal
process upon any director or officer of the company in the
State, shall be held as good service upon the company.

7. That the subscriptions to the capital stock of said com-
pany may be made payable in money, real estate or other
property appropriate to its business, at the par value of said
stock; and other corporations incorporated under the laws
of this commonwealth, shall have authority to subscribe for,

urchase and hold the same, and the said company shall

avo power to make lawful traffic contracts with any other
corporations, and to purchase and hold the shares and secu-
rities thereof.

8. The said company may organize and govern its opera-
tions and transactions by such by-laws as may be adopted or
agreed to by the shareholders of three-fourths of the capital
stock at any general mecting; which by-laws shall not be
inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United
States.

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

Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act
approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act to authorize the consolidation
and merger of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway company
and the Alexandria and Washington railroad company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act approved March six, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, entitled an act to authorize the consolidation
and merger of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway
company and the Alexandria and Washington railroad com-
pany, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. That whon such agreement shal] have been approved
by the stockholders of the respective companies, and the fact
of such approval certified thereon by the respective secreta-
ries, under seal, it shall be filed in the office of the secretary
of the commonwealth, and thereupon, said corporation
agreeing, as aforesaid, shall be taken to be one corporation in
law, by the name provided in said agreement, possessing all
the property, powers, rights, and franchises of the several
corporations consolidated and merged as aforesaid, and sub-
ject to all the restrictions, disabilities, and duties of each of
such companies, save so far as modified by such agreement.

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

Chap. 87.—An ACT to change the location of the courthouse of Dick-
enson county.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the court-
house of Dickenson county, as located on McClure creek, at
or near the mouth of Cary creek, by the first section of an
act entitled an act to establish the county of Dickenson out of
parts of Russell, Wise, and Buchanan, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and eighty, be and the same is hereby
changed to Holly creek, on the main road from Gladeville to
Grundy, at some point between the dwelling house of James
P. Kilgore and the dwelling house of William Hylton, to be
called Clintwood, and the clerks of the county courts of
Buchanan, Wise, and Scott counties, any two of whom may
act, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners to select
the site for a courthouse, jail, and other public buildings for said
county of Dickenson, and are hereby required to meet at the
place herein designated, on the first Monday in April next,
or as soon thereafter as practicable, and ascertain and deter-
mine at what point or place it is most suitable and proper to
erect a courthouse, and such other necessary public buildings
and fixtures as the convenience of the county requires, under
existing laws for holding court and conducting business inci-
dent thereto, and shall lay off, in the most convenient form,
a lot or lots of land for that purpose, not exceeding two acres
in quantity, and shall ascertain the value thereof. Whereupon
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, acting in this
behalf, shall make their report in writing to the county court
of said Dickenson county, of the manner in which they shall
have executed the duties required of them by this act, and
of their proceeding in relation thereto, designating the point
and place agreed upon, the value of the lot or lots of land,
and name or names of the owner or the owners thereof; and
the place so ascertained and determined upon by the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be the permanent
place for holding the courts of the county of Dickenson, now
required by law to be holden for the several counties of this
commonwealth. And the court of the county of Dickenson
shall, thereupon, provide for the payment of the valuation of
said lot or lots of land so ascertained, in the manner now
required by law, where lands shall not be already provided
and appropriated for that purpose.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CHapP. 88.—An ACT to incorporate the Carroll] Mineral Company.
Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John Cooke, Robert B. Haines, Isaac J. Wistar, William
Hacker and J. Waln Vaux, are hereby appointed commis-
sioners, and a majority of them are authorized, with or with-
out notice, and within or without the limits of this state, to
open books and receive subscriptions, and organize a com-
pany by the name, style and title of the Carroll Mineral
Company, with the right of perpetual succession, of making
and using a common or corporate seal, of suing and being
aued, and such other rights as are hereinafter conferred.

2. The said corporation shall have the right to purchase,
lease, hold, improve and convey lands in this state, not ex-
ceeding thirty thousand acres at any one time, and the capt-
tal of said company may be employed in mining, purchasing,
smelting, vending and transporting to market, ore, minerals
and other freight, and in such other objects as may be con-
sidered expedient and necessary in the prosecution of their
business.

3. The said corporation shall have the right to construct a
railroad and appurtenances from their lands, by the most
practicable route, to the nearest railroad within the state,
with the right to construct lateral roads, not exceeding ten
miles each in length, and to equip and operate the same, and
to connect with, and to purcbase and hold the stock and
securities of any railroad or public improvement now or
hereafter constructed; and whenever any section or sections,
of three miles or more of such railroad shall be completed, the
said company may use and enjoy the same in the same man-
ner as when the entire length thereof shall be completed.

4. That the capital stock of said company shall consist of
five thousand shares of ten dollars each, with the privilege
of increasing the same, from time to time, to an amount
necessary to carry out the true intent and meaning of this
act; and the satd company, by the affirmative vote of the
registered holders of not less than three-fourths of its stock,
at any general meeting of shareholders, may borrow money
to an amount not exceeding, together with all other indebt-
edness existing at the time, one-half the amount of the capi-
tal stock outstanding at the time, at any rate of interest not
inconsistent with the laws of this state, and may issue bonds
therefor, and may secure the same by mortgage, or mort-
gages, upon any or all of their property and franchises.

. That whenever the parties cannot agree upon the dam-
ages claimed for land or materials taken or required by said
company in the prosecution of their works, the company
may proceed in all respects, as provided by law for any other
railroad company incorporated under the laws of Virginia,
and shall be subject to the general railroad laws of the state
in all other respects.
. 6. That said company is authorized to hold its princi-
pal office for the transaction of business, at any place in this
state, and may at its discretion, require that the president
and directors, or any specified portion of them, may reside
in or out of this state: provided that the service of any legal
process upon any director or officer of the company in the
State, shall be held as good service upon the company.

7. That the subscriptions to the capital stock of said com-
pany may be made payable in money, real estate or other
property appropriate to its business, at the par value of said
stock; and other corporations incorporated under the laws
of this commonwealth, shall have authority to subscribe for,

urchase and hold the same, and the said company shall

avo power to make lawful traffic contracts with any other
corporations, and to purchase and hold the shares and secu-
rities thereof.

8. The said company may organize and govern its opera-
tions and transactions by such by-laws as may be adopted or
agreed to by the shareholders of three-fourths of the capital
stock at any general mecting; which by-laws shall not be
inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United
States.

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

Chap. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act
approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act to authorize the consolidation
and merger of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway company
and the Alexandria and Washington railroad company.

Approved April 21, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act approved March six, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, entitled an act to authorize the consolidation
and merger of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway
company and the Alexandria and Washington railroad com-
pany, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. That whon such agreement shal] have been approved
by the stockholders of the respective companies, and the fact
of such approval certified thereon by the respective secreta-
ries, under seal, it shall be filed in the office of the secretary
of the commonwealth, and thereupon, said corporation
agreeing, as aforesaid, shall be taken to be one corporation in
law, by the name provided in said agreement, possessing all
the property, powers, rights, and franchises of the several
corporations consolidated and merged as aforesaid, and sub-
ject to all the restrictions, disabilities, and duties of each of
such companies, save so far as modified by such agreement.

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