CHAP. 257.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 9 of
an act approved March 5, 1880, to inccrporate the Warrenton and
Fauquier White Sulphur turnpike company.

Approved February 17, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections three, four and nine of an act approved March
fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled an act to in-
corporate the Warrenton and Fauquier sulphur springs
turnpike company, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§3. The object of the said company is to re-establish,
maintain and keep in good order the Warrenton and Fau-
quier springs turnpike from Warrenton to the Rappahan-
nock river, and for this purpose the stockholders may, at
their first general meeting, make such assessments upor
themselves as they may deem proper, not exceeding the
amount of their subscription, and elect the officers of said
company, consisting of a president, treasurer, and not less
than three nor more than five directors. The president and
directors shall constitute a board to manage the affairs of
the company in accordance with its charter and by-laws,
and authority is hereby granted said company, through its
stockholders, to make such laws for its government as are
not inconsistent with the laws of this state and the United
States. The officers of said company shall be elected for
a term of one year, and hold over'until their successors
are elected and qualified. And said board may from time
to time make such assessments upon the stock of the com-
pany as they may elect, provided said assessments do not
exceed, upon any stockholder, the amount of his subscrip-
tion, and the said board, unless the stockholders should:
otherwise order, may issue eoupon bonds not exceeding five
thousand dollars in amount, secured by deed of trust upon
all or any of the property of the said company. The presi-
dent shall be entitled to vote at all meetings, and each
stockholder present, in person or by proxy, shall be enti-
tled to one vote for each share of stock held by him. A
majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. A special meeting of the stock-
holders may be held at any time upon call of the board, on
their giving five days’ notice of the time and place of said
meeting in some newspaper printed in the town of War-
renton, and said meeting shall have all the powers of @
regular and general meeting.

§4. That the road tax of all the property-holders within or
without the corporation of the town of Warrenton border-
ing on said road, beginning at the extension thereof with
Main street and extending as far as the Rappahannock
river, and of all property-holders outside of said corpora-
tion within one mile of said road, on either side of the
same, be collected by the treasurer of the county of Fau-
quier as now required by section twenty-four of an act of
the general assembly approved February the twenty-fourth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and all amendments
thereto relating to the roads of Fauquier county, and paid
over to the treasurer of said company; but said treasurer
of Fauquier county shal] make no such payment until the
treasurer of the said company shall have given the bond
required by the ninth section of this act, and said taxes so
paid over shall be applied by the said board to the im-
provement of said road.

$9. That the treasurer of the company shal! give bond,
with security, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, prya-
ble to the president and directors of said company, and
conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as
said treasurer, the security of said bond to be approved by
the county court of Fauquier county; and the treasurer of
said company shall pay out no money on account of the com-
pany except upon order of the board and on check or draft
on him signed by the president; and said treasurer shall
annually settle his accounts as to the public moneys re-
ceived by him before the commissioner of accounts of said
county, who shall return the same to the county court for
confirmation. Said accounts shall be subject to exception
hy any taxpayer on or near said turnpike whose road tax
shall go into the hands of the said treasurer.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Cifap. 258.—An ACT for the relief of the administrators of the
late George W. Akers

Approved February 17, 1890.

Whereas George W. Akers, deputy treasurer of John W.
Clay (late treasurer of Campbell county), departed this
life having on hand a considerable number of tax tickets
for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five uncollected,
for which the said treasurer had accounted to the auditor;
therefore, oo

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That George H. Akers, administrator of said George W.
Akers, be allowed the further time of one year within
which to collect said uncollected taxes, and that he be
allowed to distrain and levy for said taxes.

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