CHAP. 191.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 307 of the
acts of 1887-88, in relation to trespass by certain aninials in the
county of Halifax. )

Approved February 7, 1890.

1. Be if enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the act of the general assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
acts of assembly eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, page three hundred
ang sixty-eight, entitled an act to amend section two
thousand and forty-two of the code of Virginia of eight-
een hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§2042. If any horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, or goats
shall enter into any grounds enclosed by a lawful fence,
or by ariver or stream, or any part thereof which is by
law a lawful fence, or into any grounds in counties or
magisterial districts, or selected portions thereof, wherein
the boundary lines of lots or tracts of land have been
constituted lawful fences, the owner or manager of any
such animal shall be liable for every such entry to a fine
of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars, and,
in addition, shall be liable to the owner or tenant of such
ground, as the case may be, for any damage sustained.
For every succeeding trespass by such animal the owner
or manager thereof shall be liable to the owner or tenant
of such grounds for double damages; and, after having
given at least five days’ notice of the fact of two previous
trespasses, the owner or tenant of such grounds shall be
entitled toa lien on such animal if it be found again
trespassing therein for the amount of damages sustained
and costs incurred in asserting said damages, which dam-
ages may be recovered according to the law of the state:
provided, this act shall apply exclusively to the county of
Halifax, and to no other county in the state.

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

CHapP. 192.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of
an act approved January 24, 1888, entitled an act to incorporate
the Petersburg and Asylum railway company.

Approved February 7, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one and three of an act approved January
the twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eight, be, and
the same are hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That George Beadle, Daniel W. Lassiter, John Mann,
Walter S. Phillips, T. S. Bolling, J. Edward Moyler,
Thomas F. Rives, and such other persons as may hereafter
be associated with them, shall be, and they are hereby,
constituted and declared a body politic and corporate under
the name and style of the Petersburg and Asylum railway
company, and as such are authorized and empowered to
locate, construct, and operate a line of railroad, com-
mencing at a point within the city of ‘Petersburg and
running thence to the granite quarries situate on the
tract of land belonging to the Central lunatic asylum of
Virginia, in the county of Dinwiddie, and thence to any
other granife quarry or quarries, or to any other point or
points within said county which said company may deem
it expedient to reach with its track or tracks, and by such
route or routes as it may deem suitable; and said com-
pany shal] have authority to extend and operate its line
from said granite quarries on the land of said Central
lunatic asylum to the village of Matoaca, in the county
of Chesterfield, and thence to any other point or points
within said county of Chesterfield.

§3. It shall be lawful for said company for the purpose
of constructing and equipping its railroad to borrow
money by issuing, negotiating, and selling its bonds;
said bonds to be secured by a mortgage or mortgages, or
deed or deeds of trusts upon all or any of its property or
franchises. The aggregate amount of the bonds hereby.
authorized shall not exceed an issue of ten thousand dol-
lars per mile of completed main or branch track, inclusive
of those isgued before the passage of this act,and may be
issued in sums not exceeding five thousand dollars as each
half mile of such track is completed.

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