Chap. 436.—An ACT to incorporate the Washington, Western and
Southwestern railroad company.

Approved March 5, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John P. Hamlin, W. W. Kirby, William A. Cook, William R.
Holtzman, Jonathan H. Gray, 8S. Taylor Suit, Simon Wolf,
W. W. Danenhower, William W. Moffet, Joseph A. Settle, E.
Burgdorf, A. P. Lacy, George H. Plant, junior, E. H. Gelston,
E. B. Fox, William W. Curtis, Samuel 8. Burdette, James E.
Waugh, J. Vance Lewis, Damel Brud, Hallet Kelburn, John
N. Bovee, William Mayse, William R. Riley, Louis P. Shoe-
maker, H. B. Moulton, Henry Polkinhorn, Dorsey Clagett,
Samuel C. Mills, William H. Clagett, of Washington, District
of Columbia, and Sewell B. Corbett, Doctor H. C. Corbett,
M. C. Munson, Sanford Bradbury, Harrison Hatch, Frank
Hume, Thomas W. Swan, Lawrence W. Corbett, James E.
Clements, William H. Tonyson, John E. Fubrey, Thomas H.
Sypherd, R. 8. Lacy, Robert R. Veitch, William H. Butler,
Harvey Bailey, Henry L. Holmes, Manadier Taylor, Septimus
Brown, William Young, John W. Barcroft, Lafayette Bing-
ham, Lewis McKenzie, David A. Windsor, Matthew Trimble,
of Alexandria; R. W. Moore, D. M. Chichester, W. P. Mon-
cure, Job Hawxhurst, John N. Ballard, R. R. Farr, George
F. Harrison, A. J. Sager, A. A. Freeman, D. O. Munson, J.
M. Love, John H. Chichester, James P. Machen, Benjamin
Simpson, Charles L. Campbell, F. W. Richardson, William
De Bell, Blecker Caufield, George E. Sangster, of Fairfax
county; H. F. Lynn, T. B. Putnam, T. W. Buckley, P. G.
Douglas, W. V. Mason, John Cross, R. H. Tyler, W. J. Latham.
T. O. Taylor, C. A. Heineken, J. R. Percell, G. A. Simpson,
W. 4H. Brown, T. A. Thorp, J. L. Reed, R. Blecker, T. A.
Smith, Thomas J. Chew, Crawford Cushing, William F. Hite,
M. A. Jordan, R. B. Lee, James E. Herrell, George L. Galle-
her, L. M. Mason, Silas A. Sanders, E. E. Meredith, W. W.
Jordan, R. M. Lewis, J. B. Medcalfe, J. W. Latham, J. T.
Polen, J. P. Gaines, A. B. Fetzer, A. Buckley, James W. Hun-
ton, F. H. Sanders, of Prince William county; A. D. Payne,
J. P. Jeffries, T. Towson Smith, William M. Green, Charles
R. Lake, George 8. Hamilton, Joseph H. Jeffries, H. H. Spin-
dle, R. R. Sanders, Isham Keith, James M. Rixey, T. C.
Pitcher, J. A. Pitcher, R. C. Buck, L. L. Anderson, W. E.
Gaskins, J. W. Timberlake, John Lake, W. H. Davis, A. M.
Curtis, A. D. Smith, J. K.Skinker, William Beverly, Howson
Hooe, I. H. Nelson, J. L. Gorrell, J. R. Green, G. Gaines, J.
P. Wyer, Lawrence Washington, F. W. Maddux, Eustace
Jeffries, E. T. Patterson, Elias Blackwell, J. W. Blackwell, of
Fauquier county; Frank Eastham, B. B. Gordon, James £.
Yates, John T. Daniel, John T. Fletcher, H. S. Menefee, J.
Y. Menefee, William F. Anderson, P. Henry O’Brannon, S.
R. Armstrong, T. B. Massie, Charles Green, A. W. Dearing,
M. & Miller, H. G. Moffett, junior, J,,J, Miller, T. B. Massie,

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S. H. Fletcher, H. A. Wood, William N. Smith, John James
Miller, Thomas F. Kinsey, E. B. Jones, F. L. Slaughter,
H. H. Sleet, John B. Milier, D. D. Miller, R. E. Mil-
ler, W. T. Mason, A. M. Willis, J. W. Fletcher, John
Swartz, W. T. Yancey, of Rappahannock county; Ellis
Miller, John W. Kebler, D. F. Kagey, H. V. Hudson, J.
Brand, J. V. Jamison, J. B. Brubaker, A. D. Brubaker,
John W. Long, C. D. Price, Isaac Koontz, W. D. Jett, W. L.
Hudson, Lemuel Fletcher, Andrew Broaddus, A. W. McKim,
Alexander J. Brand, G. M. Zirkle, S. J. Richey, Charles H.
Grove, R. S. Parks, E. J. Armstrong, George K. Mullin, J. G.
Newman, David Koontz, J. G. Sibert, Charles S. Foote, Mar-
tin Shirley, of Page county; D. S. Henkel, G. R. Calvert, S.
P. Shirley, A. R. Rosenberger, T. M. Clinedinst, G. W. Rosen-
berger, D. F. Kagey, J. R. Thomas, F. E. Rice, Lemuel Zer-
kel, G. M. Williamson, L. P. Henkel, L. H. Zirkle, C. A.
White, P.S. White, 8S. R. Hoover, Samuel Good, C. C. Hen-
kel, C. Shirley, of Shenandoah county; John Acker, Doctor
J. B. Webb, G. F. Arey, S. Burton, J. A. Harring, Doctor
Newman, Captain W. L. Lurty, J. E. Sanger, George Cris-
man, Doctor E. A. Herring, William 8. Carpenter, John F.
Crown, J. P. Houck, J. Alamong, J. Samuel Hornsberger,
Hunter Spindle, C. N. Killian, of Rockingham county; James
McPearson Crawford, A. A. Sproul, J. Alexander Bumgard-
ner, M. Erskine Miller, John W. Todd, Colonel John H. Craw-
ford, Captain C. Benton Koiner, G. Julian Pratt, Judge John
W. Stout, J. Addison Cochran, Major S. M. Yost, J. L. Moh-
ler, Colonel James Cochran, Newton C. Watts, R. N. Page,
Samuel H. McCue, N. B. Vaupelt, Andrew Bohn, W. R. Tal-
ley, Caspar Koiner, John H. Montgomery, W. H. Clare,
David Yount, Doctor Samuel H. Bell, J. Willis Crist, M. S.
Whitmore, D. Newton Wilson, John H. McCorkle, J. L. Dun-
lap, J. R. Hidey, N. L. Blakemore, S. Brown Allen, W. C.
Craig, J. C. Marquis, A. C. Braxton, George C. Maslin, Wil-
liam Patrick, Jed. Hotchkiss, William A. Hudson, of Augusta
county; CO. R. McDonald, J. A. August, W. G. Payne, J. C.
Kincaid, W. H. Bryan, William M. McAllister, J. W. War-
wick, William McClintic, J. H. Sherrard, junior, J. W. Bon-
ner, A. G. McGuffin, senior, J. D. Hamilton, John L. Eubank,
J. Cleck, junior, J. T. Bratton, A. M. McClintic, Joseph Bax-
ter, A. H. Sittlington, Thomas B..Wallace, W. S. McCliuntic,
C. C. Francisco, A. G. Cleek, John P. McDonald, John W.
Stephenson, M. H. McClintic, W. D. Erwin, Jo. B, Dickinson,
J. W. Warren, P. L. Yarborough, A. F. Winthrow, F. G.
Fultz, of Bath county; M. D. Brown, Dennis Shannahan,
William Skeen, O. T. Rogers, J. J. Hobbs, R. L. Parish, L. T.
Dickey, J. B. Pitzer, J. A. McClung, A. A. McAllister, An-
drew Fudge, John T. Mann, Samuel Carpenter, Hezekiah
Massey, Lewis Payne, George T. McClintic Joseph T. Fudge,
J.R. England, E. M. Nettleton, John W. Bell, T. E. Buck,
Thomas P. Bowles, J. E. Johnson, W.S. Hungerford, of Alle-

hany ¢ounty; W. J. Cave, John W. Taylor, F. P. Smith,

homas W. Chapman, G. E. Garth, James W. Banks, W. A.
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Collins, E. W. Twyman, D. L. Crigler, of Madison county ;
Z. K. Page, G. E. Blakey, George B. Jennings, N. B. Chap-
man, of Greene county; George W. Webb, R. I. Hutchinson,
A. C. Givens, R. C. Trenor, William P. Ross, William L.
Farrier, P. C. Huffman, William T. Eakin, J. W. Troutt, Wil-
P. Caldwell, J. W. Lipes, J. M. Rowan, P. V. C. Lee, J. -W.
Marshall, A. McCartney, C. N. Hawkins, William L. Surface,
M.S. Rowan, Z. F. Nutter, T. B. McCartney, of Craig county;
Daniel W. Mason, George W. Easley, A. A. Chapman, Jesse
H. Woodram, William A. Johnston, C. R. Price, William M.
Echols, Thomas G. Hardwick, A. P. Miller, B. P. Watts,
Wilham Eggleston, Samuel E. Lybrook, George I. Snidow,
Joseph H. Hoge, Peyton L. St. Sinclair, Thomas 8. Taylor,
Charles J. Mathews, J. W. Williams, of Giles county; J. G.
Munscey, J. D. Hanaker, H. C. Fanning, J. P. Allen, John A.
Davidson, F. M. Campton, Isaac Stawers, H. G. Thompson,
Henry Newberry, W. H. Hoge, D. B. Newberry, J. 8S.
Robinett, A. R. Heflin, F. C. Bogle, C. W. Penley, A. D.
Grassclose, C, P. Munsey, P. P. Hayes, of Bland county; H.
C. Alderson, of Tazewell county; W. H. B. White, Henry
Ascue, D. C. Stuart, V. B. Gilmer, 8. W. Aston, H. H. Dick-
inson, E. D. Gray, A. J. Jessce, N. B. Gray, James L. Wil-
liams, Joseph B. Gilmer, James D. Hanson, Jessee B. Fuller,
A. P. Gilmer, Doctor E. S. Fugate, Huston Banner, W. N.
Hendricks, of Russell county; J. M. Johnson, George M.
Edmonds, T. R. Jackson, Samuel Haynes, M. B. Wood, J. B.
Richmond, I. P. Robinett, Isaac Wisly, R. B. Fugate, James
A. Taylor, J. M. Massey, J. M. Hoge, H. C. Wood, J. P. Com,
C. M. Carter, W. H. Riggs, W. P. Horton, H. W. Holdway,
Amos Miller, W. C. Fugate, I. G. Cox, of Scott county, or
such of them as may accept the provisions of this act, their
associates, successors, and assigns, being not less than nine
persons, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the
Washington, Western, and Southwestern railroad company;
and by that name shall be known in law, and as such are
authorized and empowered to locate, construct, equip, and
operate a railroad, commencing at a point on the Potomac
river, opposite Washington, District of Columbia, and run-
ning thence in a westerly and southwesterly course through
the counties of Alexandria, Fairfax, Prince William, Fau-
quier, (passing within one mile of the courthouse, in said
county of Fauquier), Rappahannock, Page, Shenandoah,
Rockingham, Augusta, Bath, and Alleghany, to some point
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, with the privilege of
extending the road on through the counties Alleghany, Craig,
Giles, Bland, Tazewell, Russell, and Scott, to the Tennessee
state line; alsoa road from near Warrenton, southwesterly
through Madison and Greene counties to the city of Staunton,
in Augusta county, by such route or routes as may be deemed
most suitable by the directors of said company.

2. The said company shall have perpetual succession, and
have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,

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defend and be defended in all courts, whether in law or in
equity, and make and have a common seal, and alter or renew
the same at pleasure, and shall have and enjoy all the rights,
powers, and privileges pertaining to corporate boudies and
necessary for the purposes of this act.

3. The capital stock of suid company shall be one million ‘
dollars, and may, from time to time, be increased to any
amount not exceeding twenty million dollars, by issue and
sale of shares, the par value of which shall be twenty-five |
dollars per share, under such regulations as the board of direc-
tors of said company shall prescribe; and the directors may
receive cash, labor, material, real or personal property, suited
to the business of the company, in payment of subscriptions :
to the capital stock, at such valuation as may be agreed upon ‘
between the directors and the subscribers; and may make
such subscription payable as a whole, or by instalments, in
such manner or amounts, and at such time or times as may
be agreed upon with the subscribers.

4. It shall be lawful tor said company to borrow money |
and issue and sell its bonds from time to time, for such sum '
and on such terms as its board of directors may deem expe-
dient and proper in the prosecution of any of its work, and
may secure the payment of said bonds by mortgages or deeds |
of trust upon all or any portion of its property, real, personal, !
and mixed, its covenants, contracts, and privileges, and its
chartered rights and franchises, including its franchises to
be a corporation; and it may, as the business of the company
shall require, sell, lease, convey, and encumber the said prop-
erty, contracts, privileges, rights, and franchises.

5. The said company is authorized and empowered to }
locate, construct, equip, and operate lateral or branch roads
or tramways, not exceeding twenty miles each in length, to
any furnaces, ore banks, mines, quarries, factories, or rail-
roads; and the said company may acquire by purchase or
condemnation, according to the laws of Virginia, the lands
required for the right of way of its railroad and branches, and
the necessary stations and depots for its operation; it may
connect, consolidate, operate, or unite its railroad with that
of any other railroad company; and any connecting railroad
company may operate said railroad on such terms as may be
agreed upon between the directors of the respective com-
panies. But no consolidation shall change the identity of the
company hereby created, but the same shall always remain
a corporation of Virginia.

6. The said company shall be required to commence the‘
construction of said railroad within two years from the pas-|
sage of this act, and to complete the construction of its main
lines within seven years thereafter.

7. The persons named in this act, or such of them, being)
not less than nine persons, as shall accept the provisions
thereof, are hereby authorized to call a meeting of the incor-
porators, and they shall have the power and authority ofa
president and board of directors for the purposes of organiza-

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tion and for all other purposes incidental to the organization ;
and such of them and their associates and successors as be-

come stockholders, shall constitute the board of directors, and
shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected
and qualified. Each stockholder in the company shall, at all
meetings or elections, be entitled to one vote for each share of
stock registered in his or her name. At all such stated and
regularly called meetings of stockholders, a majority of the
stock as shown by the records of the company, represented
by owner or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for trans-
acting business touching the management of the property
and affairs of the company or the election of officers.

8. The board of directors shall be stockholders of said com-
pany, from whom they shall appoint a president, vice-presi-
dent, secretary, and treasurer, and shall fill any vacancy that
may occur. henever ten per centum of the capital stock
shall have been subscribed and the board of directors shall
have elected a president, vice-president, secretary, and treas-
urer, and such other officers and agents as may be required,
said company shall be considered legally organized and may
proceed to the transaction of business. No officer of the com-
pany shall receive any salary or compensation for his services
until the main lines shall have been completed and in opera-
tion for the transportation of passengers and traffic: provid-
ing that this clause shall not apply to the superintendent and
engineers employed in the construction of the road; and no
officer shall be paid a salary or compensation greater than
five thousand dollars a year, until the road shall have been
in operation for a period of ten years.

9. The board of directors may establish offices and agencies
at such places as they may deem proper, but the principle
office shall be in the state of Virginia.

10. All taxes due the commonwealth by the said company
shall be paid in lawful money of the United States.

11. This act shall be in force from its passage, but the gen-
eral assembly of the state of Virginia reserves to itself the
right to modify, alter, or amend this act at any time hereafter.
The charter for such portion of the road or its branches as
shall not have been completed and in operation within seven
years from the time of the commencement of work on the
main line shall become forfeited and rendered null and void.