Chap. 36.—An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to
reduce the number of trustees in Upper Appomattox company,
passed December 23, 1797.

Approved January 24, 1888.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
the act entitled an act to reduce the number of trustees in
the Upper Appomattox company, passed on the twenty-
third day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven,
be and the same horeby is amended so as to read in the first
section thereof as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the
number of trustees appointed by the act passed twenty-first
day of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, entitled
an act to reduce into one act the several acts for opening
and extending the navigation of Appomattox river, may at
the next election be reduced, and the holders of shares may
then, and at, all fat eioelegtions, choose any numbereof:trus-_
tees in their discretion, not more than thirteen nor less than
five, a majority of whom shall compose a board to proceed
to business; and the said trustees shall be vested with the
same powers, and continue in office for the like period, as
prescribed by the said act.

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