Chap. 378.—An ACT to incorporate the Farmville Lumber Company.

Approved March 10, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
J. P. Fitzgerald, George M. Robeson, L. M. Blunton, and
their associates and successors, are hereby created and con-
stituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style
of the Farmville lumber company, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, contract
and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have a com-
mon scal, and change the same at pleasure, and shall have
all the rights and privileges of a corporation, and be subject
to all the rules, regulations, and restrictions imposed by the
general laws of Virginia, in relation to joint stock companies,
so far as they are applicable to, and not inconsistant with the
provisions of this act.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
one thousand dollars, with the privilege to increase the same
from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at annual
or special mectings, to a sum not exceeding thirty thousand
dollars.

3. The said company shall have power to construct suita-
ble buildings and works for conducting its business, and shall
have power to acquire and hold for the purpose aforesaid,
real estate in the town of Farmville, Prince Edward county,
not exceeding ten acres.

4. The said company shall have power to make, from time
to time, such by-laws and regulations as it may deem neces-
sary and proper for the management of the affairs of said
company; may fix the number of its directors and other
officers, and prescribe the manner of their election or appoint-
ment, their several terms of service, and their powers, duties
and compensation. In all general or special meetings of the
company, the stockholders present, in person or by proxy,
shall be entitled to one vote on each share of their stock, a
majority of the stock being required to constitute a legal
meeting.

5. The said company shall have the right and authority
to remove all obstructions, such as hammocks, logs, stumps,
and other impediments to ‘the natural flow of water from the
channel of Appomattox river, from the mill dam in the same
at Farmville, to its source, as it flows through the counties
of Prince Edward, Cumberland, Buckingham and Appo-
mattox, and from the channels of any and all creeks tribu-
tary thereto, from the mouths of such tributaries to their
sources in any of the counties aforesaid.

6. The said company shall have the exclusive right and
authority to place in the channel of said Appomattox river,
from its source, to the dam in said river at Farmville, and in
the channels of said creeks flowing into said river, between
their sources and Farmville, locks, booms, and other fixtures
for the purpose of stopping and holding in store, logs, lumber,
timber, plank and cord wood; and of floating, rafting and
otherwise conveying on the current of said Appomattox river
and its tributaries, in and through said counties, logs, timber,
lumber, plank and cord wood, and of stopping and storing
the same in said locks, booms and other fixtures, erocted as
aforesaid, tor that purpose; but said company may suffer
other persons to use and enjoy the use of said locks, booms
or other fixtures, in stopping and storing logs, timber, lum-
ber, plank and cord wood, floated by such persons down the
current of said streams, and may collect of such persons so
using and enjoying said locks, booms or other fixtures, so
erected by said company, a toll, which shall not exceed the
sum of ten cents per mile for cach thousand feet, by lumber
measure, of all logs, timber, lumber and plank, or the sum of
twenty-five cents per cord for wood so floated or rafted by
such person, on the current of said streams, through or by
the locks, booms, or other fixtures erected and built, or con-
structed in the channels of said streams, by authority of this
act.

7. Provided, however, that said company shall not in any
manner, in the exercise of the rights and privileges conferred
by this act, alter or change the bed of the stream of the said
Appomattox river or its tributaries, so as to cause the same
to flow out of its usual and accustomed channel, through the
land of any riparian proprietor, without the consent of the
owner of such lands: and provided further, that said com-
pany shall not so construct said locks, booms, or other fix-
tures in the channel of said river, or of any of its tributaries,
as to stop the usuat flow of water, as a supply to any mill
now run by said stream, or so as to cause the water of said
stream to be dammed back, as to overflow the lands lying
along the banks of such stream: and provided further, that
said company, in floating down the current of said streams,
logs, lumber, timber, plank and cord wood, shall in no way
interfere with or enjure any mill dams now existing by
authority of law in said streams, or in any way interfere with
county bridges built over said streams for public use, or private
bridges built by land owners over any of said tributaries of
the Appomattox river, by the owners of land on either side
of said tributarics.

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