Chap. 439.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Tazewell coal and iron company,
approved April 27, 1887.

Approved March 5, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
section three of an act approved April twenty-eight, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act to incorporate the
Tazewell coal and iron company, be amended and re-enacted
80 a8 to read as follows:

§3. The said company is authorized and empowered to
mine coal, iron ore, or other minerals, to prepare the products
thereof for market; to make coke and transport and sell the
same; to manufacture iron and steel and other metals and
articles composed wholly or partly of iron and steel and
other metals; to bore for salt, oil,.and gas, and manufacture
the same, and to sell and dispose of the same; and to erect
blast furnaces, rolling mills, forges, machinery, fixtures, build-
ings, and the necessary appliances and appurtenances required
in the conduct of their business; and to make, lease, or con-
tract for these or any of these purposes. And the said com-
pany shall have the right from time to time to purchase, lease,

‘hold, and control in any manner, grant, bargain, sell, and
convey iron ore, mineral, and limestone and other lands, and
rights and interests in lands, situate in this state, not exceed-
ing however, thirty thousand acres of land in any one county,
and in order to bring out the minerals and products of its
locality and furnish public transportation facilities, the com-
pany shall have the right from time to time, of locating, con-
structing, operating, and maintaining a line of railroad or
railroads from any of the lands or works of the said company
to any point on any railroad that is now or hereafter may be
located or constructed into or through the counties of Taze-
well, Wise, Buchanan, Russell, or Dickenson: provided, that
nothing in this section shall be construed as exempting the
said company from the provisions of chapter sixty-one of the
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, if it shall engage
in constructing or operating any such railroad, and the said
company may acquire by condemnation, in the mode provided
by law, the lands necessary for the right of way of its rail-
roads and necessary stations and depots for their operation:
and provided further, that no company organized or opera-
ting under this charter, shall in the location or construction
of its road, acquire any exclusive right in the occupany of
any mountain pass, creck, or valley where it is practicable to
build more than one railroad.