Chap. 43.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act
entitled an act to extend the charter and franchises of the
Southern improvement company, approved March 1, 1888.

Approved January 11, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the second section of the act approved March first,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled “an act to
extend the charter and franchises of the Southern im-
provement company,” be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

2. The said company may construct, acquire, and
hold by purchase, lease or otherwise, and may on its own
behalf or for and on behalf of other corporations, con-
struct, conduct, manage, operate and maintain railroads,
tramways, turnpike roads, and other drives, and collect
tolls as prescribed by law, on the same or on any that it
now owns; but on any pleasure drive-way, the company
may collect such tolls as it may prescribe; and the said
company may acquire by condemnation or otherwise,
water supplies for use in connection with its properties,
and dispose of and use the water as it may elect, and it
may erect or lay telegraph, telephone or electric lines of
any kind for any purpose, and charge rents or tolls for the
use of or for services rendered by means of any such lines;
and the said company may also construct, lay, maintain,
use and operate water pipes, sewers, gas pipes, and may
manufacture and sell or dispose of gas and electric lights
or power on such terms as it may prescribe, and the said
company may also sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any
railroads, tramways, turnpike roads, or drives which it
may construct, own or acquire as aforesaid. And the
said company may unite and consolidate with the Warm
Springs company and the Warm Springs Valley company,
or either or both, and with any other corporation, upon such
terms and conditions, and under such corporate name as
may be agreed upon by the stockholders of such compa-
nies, respectively, in general meeting, without impairing
any of the rights and franchises of any of such compa-
nies, which rights and franchises shall all inure to the ben-
efit of the consolidated company; and any such consolida-
tion so made and entered into with the above named com-
panies, or either of them, or any other corporation, shall be
in all respects lawful, valid and binding. A counterpart of
any such contract or contracts of union or consolidation
shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the common-
wealth, and a copy thereof, certified by such secretary.
shall be evidence of the union, consolidation or consolida-
tions therein set forth, without any proof of handwriting.
For the purpose of effecting any of said works, construc-
tions, operations, uses and maintenances the said con-
pany shall have the right to acquire by condemnation or
otherwise for each purpose, a continuous tract of land of
reasonable and sufficient width not exceeding one hundred
feet in width, and such additional land as may be necer-
sary for said purpose.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.