Chap. 386.—An ACT to amend the Wythe Lead and Zinc mining
company.

Approved May 23, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
two of an act approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, entitled an act to change the name of the Union
lead mine company, and re-incorporate the same under the
name and style of the Wytbe Lead and Zinc mine company,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2. And whereas the stockholders of the Wythe Lead and
Zinc mine company were stockholders in the Union lead
mine company; it is therefore further enacted that the title
to all the lands and property, together with all the franchises,
fixtures, and appurtenances thereto belonging, of whatever
kind or description, which now stands or is owned in the
name of the Union lead mine company, is hereby conveyed,
transferred, vested, and confirmed in the Wythe lead and
zinc mine company, as fully and completely as the same
could have been done by grant or other legal conveyance;
and the said Wythe lead and zinc mine company is hereby
substituted to all the rights, powers, privileges, and subject
to all the contracts, liabilities, and encumbrances now apper-
taining to or existing upon the said Union lead mine com-
pany; and the said Wythe lead and zine mine company shall
have power to acquire, hold, sell, and convey real estate not
exceeding fifty thousand acres in addition to that transferred
to it by this charter: provided that the stockholders owning
two-thirds of the stock of the company shall consent to a
sale and conveyance of the same.

2. The fifth section of said act is hereby repealed.

3. Be it further enacted, That said company shall issue
certificates of stock in said company to the holders of interests
in said company in shares of twenty dollars each, signed by
the president and countersigned by the secretary of said
company. The said certificates shall be transferable only
upon the books of the company by the holders thereof, their
personal representative, or their duly authorized agent or
attorney; and said certificate, when so transferred as afore-
said, may be returned to said company and cancelled, and
new certificates of stock shall be issued in lieu thereof to the
person entitled thereto for a like number of shares.

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