Chap. 225.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an
act to incorporate the Salem and Southwestern Railroad company,
approved February 20, 1884.

; Approved February 26, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and four of an act approved February twentieth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to incor-
porate the Salem and Southwestern railroad company, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

-§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John J. Moorman, R. H. Catlett, John E. Penn, G. B. Board,
Joel C. Green, George M. Horner, S. F. Simmons, James C.
Langhorne, C. W. Burwell, C. A. Calhoun, John M. Evans,
James Chalmers, and R. H. Logan, or such of them as may
accept the provisions of this act, and such other persons and
corporations as may become associated with them, in the man-
ner hereinafter provided, shall be and they are hereby consti-
tuted a body corporate, by the name of the Salem and South-
western Railroad Company ; and by that name shall have all
the powers, rights, and franchises necessary and proper to
construct, equip, and maintain a railroad, to be known as the
Salem and Southwestern railroad, and to be run from Salem,
in the county of Roanoke, by such route as the said company
may determine, up the south fork of the Roanoke river, in
Montgomery county, and through the southern parts of Pu-
laski, Wythe, Smyth, and Washington counties, to the line of
the state of Tennessee, at or near the south fork of Holston
river; or through the counties of Floyd, Carroll, and Gray-
son, to the Tennessee or North Carolina line; or through the
county of Patrick, to some suitable point on the North Caro-
lina line. And the said company shall have the power to pur-
chase and hold mineral lands, for the purpose of working the
same, in order to furnish tonnage to its road, and to lease or
sell the same. The said company, by deed to be recorded in
the clerk’s office of Roanoke county and in the clerk’s office
of at least one other county along the route selected, shall,
within one year after the passage of this act, select and deter-
mine which of the three routes mentioned in this section it will
adopt for the construction of the road, and shall only construct
its road along the route so adopted.

$4. The said company is required to commence the con-
struction of its road within two years from the first day of
April, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and to complete it
within eight years from that date. The failure so to com-
mence and so to complete shall operate as a forfeiture of the
charter of said road.
2. This act shall be subject at any time to repeal or amend-
ment by the general assembly, and all taxes or dues due the
commonweatth shall be paid in lawful currency of the United
States, and not in coupons.

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

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