Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th and 7th sections of
the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville Railroad Company as
amended and re-enacted by the Act of Assembly, approved the 18th
day of May, 1887.

Approved January 13, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
sections five and seven of the charter of the Farmville and
Charlottesville railroad company as amended and re-enacted
by the act of assembly approved on theeighteenth day of
May, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§5. Any county, city, or town on or near the line of said
railroad may subscribe to its stock to the amount of one hun-
dred thousand dollars. Upon application of the company to
the judge of such county or the proper authority of such city
or town, such judge or authority of such city or town, shall
cause an election to be held, in the manner required by law
for other elections, and by the judges of election at the sev-
eral precincts of such county, city, or town, to take the sense
of the qualified voters on the question of such subscription.
And if at any election heretofore held, or that shall be here-
after held, there has not been, or shall not be, such return
and canvass of the vote as the law requires, so that such
judge or authority of the city or town cannot intelligibly and
legally ascertain how the voters have voted upon the ques-
tion, such company shall be entitled to a new order of elec-
tion, and all subscriptions heretofore made, or that may be
hereafter made by the board of supervisors of any county, or
proper authority of any city or town, in pursuance of a sec-
ond election, held for the reasons aforesaid, whether before or
after the passage of this act, shall be as effectual and valid to
all intents and purposes as if made in pursuance of an elec-
tion held under the first order of election obtained by said
company in such county, city, or town. If it shall appear b
the report of the board of commissioners that three-fifths of
the qualified voters of the county, city, or town voting upon
the question are in favor of subscription, and that said three-
fifths includes a majority of the votes cast by freeholders at
such election, the county court or proper authority (council
or board of trustees) of such city or town, shall, at its next
session, enter of record an order requiring the supervisors of the

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county, or the members of the council, or board of trustees, to
attend on a day and at a place named in the order, to carry
out the wishes of the voters as expressed at said election:
provided, that said company shall, if desired so to do, receive
at par, in payment of such subscriptions as may be voted
under this section, the bonds of such municipal corporations
carrying not more than six per centum interest per annum,
and having not less than thirty-four years to run.

§7. Seid company may connect with the Virginia Midland
railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at or near.
Charlottesville, or at any point not further west than Rock-
fish river, and with the Norfolk and Western railroad at any
point in the counties of Prince Edward and Appomattox; and
it may extend its line southward to a connection with the
Keysville and Clarksville railroad at Keysville; and with any
other railroad built under the laws of Virginia, at such point
as it may select. Said company shall have full power and
authority to make such connection agreements and contracts
with other railroad companies as may be proper and neces-
sary for the successful exercise and enjoyment of its fran-
chises, whether the same be traffic agreements or for the
lease or purchase of the lines of one or more of such com-
panies, or consolidation therewith; and if it shall seem neces-
sary, said company shall have power either to lease its own
line, or any. part thereof, either for a term of years, or in per-
petuity; or to sell the whole or any part of its lines, its prop-
erty and franchises, to some other railroad company incorpo-
rated under the laws of this state. Under the powers con-
ferred by: this section, it may make any contract aforesaid
(except a sale under the last preceding clause), with any rail-
road company incorporated by the laws of either Virginia,
North Carolina, or South Carolina. Its connections with,
and crossings of other railroads, county roads and streets, shall
be ee by the general statutes on the subject.

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