CHAP. 281.—An ACT to amend the first section of an act entitled
an act to amend the first, second and third sections of an act en-
titled an act to incorporate the Saltville and Coal Mine railroad
company, and to change the name to the Norfolk and Cincinnati
railroad company, approved January 14, 1882, and to fix the point
at which the said company may commence the construction of its

road.
Approved March 1, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act to amend the first, second and third
sections of an act to incorporate the Saltville and Coal Mine
railroad company, and to change the name to the Norfolk and
Cincinnati railroad company, approved January fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows, viz:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
A. H. Bronson, E. C. Hoag, Dwight M. Lowry, and William
G. Clark, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and William B.
Aston, of Russell county, Virginia; and F. M. Imboden, W.
K. Armstead, and A. T. Starrett, of Saltville, Virginia; and
such other persons as may associate with them, be and they
are hereby made and declared a body politic and corporate, by
the name and style of the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad com-
pany, and under that name and title shall succeed to all the
property, rights, privileges and obligations of the said Saltville
and Coal. Mine railroad company, and shall be and is hereby
authorized and empowered to survey, locate, construct, equip,
maintain and operate lines of railway, of sach gauge as it may
adopt, from any point on the Norfolk and Western. railroad
between Wytheville and a point at or near Abingdon, through
any of the counties of Washington, Smyth, and Wythe, to
any point or points in any of the counties bordering on the
state of Kentucky ; and also to any point or points in any of
the counties bordering on the state of North Carolina; or to
any point on any road leading to tide-water, by such practica-
ble routes as may be deemed most advantageous for the de-
velopment of the agricultural, mining and manufacturing in-
terests and resources of the country traversed thereby. And
said company is invested with all the powers conferred by the
Code and general laws of the state, and subject to all the restric-
tions of the same relating to railway companies, and not incon-
sistent with this act: provided that the said company shall pay
its taxes to the state of Virginia in lawful money of the United
States, and provided that the franchises hereby granted may
be amended or repealed by the General Assembly.

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