Chap. 356.—An ACT to amend sections one and five of Acts of Extra
Session, 1887, to incorporate the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber
and transportation company.

Approved May 21, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
‘sections one and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Dinwiddie and Brunswick lumber and transportion com-

any, approved May six, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
e amended and re-enacted 80 as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
‘That A. T. Powell, A. Williarn Harris, C. E. Abenathy, H.
Madison, John C. Duane, H. L. Harris, and T. F. Duane, with
such other persons as they may hereafter associate with them,
shall be and they are hereby constituted and declared a body
corporate and politic by the name, style, and title of the Din-
widdie and Brunswick lumber and wood transportation com-
pany, with the right to make and use a common sealj, make,
alter, or break the same; to plead and be impleaded in all the
courts of law and equity in this State, also with a right to
build and operate a railway from any point on the Roanoke
river on the North Carolina line, through the counties of
Brunswick and Dinwiddie and Prince George, to deep water
on the James river, or to connect with any road already built
and operated along its proposed route, with a capital stock
of not less than five thousand dollars, with power to increase
the same through its board of directors from time to time to
& sum not to exceed two million dollars. It may exchange
bonds with any road incorporated under the laws of this
State.

§5. The said company shall have power to buy land, cut
wood and lumber, and transport the same over any line of
railroad already built, or build railways or tramways over
any routes selected by them in either of the above mentioned
counties, by the proper and lawful method condemn lands for
this purpose, or buy or lease the right of way from the
owners of the same. They may receive to their capital stock,
land or lumber as well as money, and either of the above
mentioned counties may vote a subscription to the capital
stock of this.company or exchange its bonds for the com-
pany’s bonds: provided the sum voted shall not exceed four
thousand dollars per mile: and provided further, that the
vote shall be ordered by the board of supervisors of said
county or counties at least thirty days before the vote is to
be had of the said county or counties on this question. All
the qualified voters of the county or counties are entitled to
vote. In no case shall the subscription voted be made avail-

able for the company except as the road is built. The county
bonds shall be issued it the majority vote shall so decide, for
such a period as the board shall decide: provided the time
shall not be for a shorter period than fifteen years. The
board of supervisors shall prescribe, under the laws of this
State, the methods of conducting the election, the form of the
ballot to be used, and so forth.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.