Chap. 433.—An ACT to incorporate the Walker’s Creek Toll-Bridge
Company.

Approved March 15, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
A. J. Bane, William Shannon, Samuel B. Shannon, William
Borne, M. A. Barbee, and J. A. Miller, of Giles county; and
David M. Cloyd, J. H. Tyler, M. F. Peters, and John D.
Noblin, of Pulaski county; or such of them as may accept
the provisions of this act, and such other persons as may be-
come associated with them, and accept the provisions of this
act, be and they are hereby made and appointed a body,
politic and corporate, by the name of the Walker's Creek
Toll-Bridge company, and by that name, shall have perpetual
succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, and do all and every act necessary to en-
joy the powers herein granted.

2. The said company is authorized and empowered to
build and maintain and keep a bridge across Big Walker's
creek, near Shannon’s, on the old Giles and Pulaski turnpike,
for the transportation of persons, animals, and vehicles of
all kinds; and when said company shall complete such
bridge, it may charge tolls from all persons transporting ani-
mals and vehicles over the same.

3. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
one thousand dollars, nor more than three thousand dollars,
to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, aud
each share shall be entitled to one vote; and said company
may receive subscriptions to its stock in money or materials.

4. Said company by the acceptance of this charter, agrees
to pay its taxes at all times in lawful money of the United
States.

5. The said bridge shall be built, regulated, and managed
as prescribed by the general laws of the state, and shall be
subject to such “general laws in all respects, except that the
rates of toll thereon may be prescribed, either by the board
of public works, or by the concurrent order of the county
courts of the counties of Giles and Pulaski.

6. This act sball be in force from its passage.