CHAP. 56.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 8 and 9 of
an act approved March 3. 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the
Roanoke, Fincastle and Clifton Forge railroad company.

Approved January 14, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one, eight and nine of an act, approved March
third, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “an act to
incorporate the Roanoke, Fincastle and Clifton Forge rail-
road company,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read
a8 follows:
8 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That William B. Simmons, C. H. Vines, James Goodwin,
Alfred Beckley, A. A. Woodson, Lewis Husman, junior, C.
B. Camper, Cyrus Doggett, Cary Breckenridge, R. J. Gil-
liam, I. R. Godwin, John Ross, A. G. Preston, Charles P.
Jones, and John W. Woods, of Virginia, or such of them
as may accept the provisions of this act, their associates,
successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, incorpor-
ated and made a body politic and corporate, under the
name and style of the Roanoke, Fincastle and Clifton
Forge railroad company; and as such are authorized and
empowered to locate, construct, equip, and operate a rail-
road, commencing at the city of Roanoke, running thence
in a northwesterly direction through the counties of Roa-
noke, Botetourt and Alleghany; through the town of Fin-
castle, in Botetourt, to Clifton Forge or to some point on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, in the counties of Bote-
tourt or Alleghany, by such route as may be deemed most
advisable by the directors of said company; and by that
name shall be known in law.

§ 8. The said company shall be required to commence
the construction of the said railroad within two years
from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, and complete the construction of its main
line, within five years thereafter; otherwise the powers,
privileges and franchises, hereby granted, shall be “ipso
facto,” void. The said company may mine ore and other
minerals from lands received by it in payment of sub-
scription to its capital stock; but such Jands shall not be
operated by it for a longer period than fifty years.

§ 9. The general assembly reserves the power to amend,
alter or repeal this charter at its pleasure.

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