Chap. 142.—An ACT to amend an act approved February 19th, 1886,
to incorporate the Mineral Springs railroad company.

Approved February 18, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and eight of an act to incorporate the Mineral
Springs railroad company, approved February nineteen, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six, be amended and re-enacted to
read as follows:

§1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
W. D. Pollard, C. H. Krumbhaar, H. G. Ward, Daniel Brag,
J. R. Fell, C. A. Harte and Samuel G. Merrick, or such of
them as may accept the provisions of this act, their associates,
successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated
and made a body politic and corporate under the name and
style of the Mineral Springs railroad company, and as such
are authorized and empowered to locate, construct, equip and
operate a railroad, not exceeding one hundred miles in length,
commencing at a point at or near the line of the old Manassas
Gap railroad, now the Valley branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad company, in the county of Shenandoah, run-
ning thence in a westwardly direction to a point at or near
the West Virginia state line, by such route as may be deemed
most suitable by the directors of said company, and by that
name shall be known in law.

§ 8. The said company shall be required to commence the
constraction of said railroad on or before the first day of Jan-
uary, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to complete the con-
struction of its main line within four years thereafter; other-
wise the powers, privileges and franchises hereby granted
shall be ipso facto void.

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