Chap. 114.—An ACT to expedite the building of the Iron Belt railroad
in part.

Approved November 26, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight of chapter eighty-six of Acts of Assembly of
eighteen hundred and eighty-one and two, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved March thirteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, being chapter four hundred of the
Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-three-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§8. The work of construction by said Iron Belt railroad
company shall begin within one year and be completed within
eight years from the passage of this amended act, and any
claim which the state may have at the time of the passage
of this amended act, to declare the charter of said company
forfeited, is hereby waived and abandoned: provided that if
as much as twenty miles of railroad be constructed there-
under within six years, there shall be no forfeiture of said
charter as to the railroad so constructed: and provided further,
that no part of the main lines.of said railroad shall be con-
structed after the expiration of said eight years: and pro-
vided further, that the said company shall have the exclusive
right to build a railroad from Saltville, in Smythe county,
Virginia, up Rich valley or Poor valley, to the Pearson plas-
ter farm, and thence to the Cove creek plaster beds in said
county, from the date of the passage of this act up to and
until fifteen days after the meeting of the general assembly
of Virginia in eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, upon con-
dition that if it shall not build a railroad from Saltville during
said period of time last named, any further up either of said
two valleys than to said Pearson plaster farm, it shall forfeit
its exclusive right to construct a railroad to the said Cove
creek plaster beds: and provided further, that if during said
period of time last named, it shall fail to construct a railroad
to the Pearson plaster farm, then it shall forfeit all its char-
tered rights and franchises so far as they relate to said Smythe

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