Chap. 655.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 11 and 12
of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia mineral
belt railroad company, approved February 20, 1886.

Approved March 8, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one and eleven of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Virginia mineral belt railroad company,
approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1.°Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That St. George R. Fitzhugh, Maurice B. Rowe, James S.
Knox, W. A. Little, junior, Horace F. Crismond, E. D.
Cole, T. McCracken, of the town of Fredericksburg;
J. L. Powell, J. P. H. Crismond and L. M. Smith, of Spot-
sylvania county; Isaac T. Smith, of New York; Charles
J. Gorham, of Rhode Island; Gilbert R. Fox, of Penn-
sylvania; R. B. Smith, of Baltimore; A. F. Randal], of
Washington; E. J. Godfrey, of Pennsylvania; C. A.
Bryan, of Stafford county; R. A. James, of Danville; C.
S. Thomas, of Fluvanna county; S. F. Coleman, of Cum-
berland county; E. Berkeley, of Prince William county ;
W. E. Bibb, A. P. Talley, J. E. Bibb, J. W. Flannagan,
Jesse J. Porter, W. O. Smith, P. B. Porter, J. F. Bickers,
J. W. Baker, J. R. Crank, W. R. Goodwin, W. J. Coleman, L.
Levy, J. C. Carpenter, J. J. Boxley and C. B. Vest, of Louisa
county; A. R. Blakey, of Albemarle county ; W. E. Leake and
T. C. Leake, of city of Richmond; and W. H. Adams and
Sol Hexter, of New York, their associates, successors and
assigns, be, and they are hereby, made and declared a body
politic and corporate, by name of the Virginia mineral
belt railroad company, for the purpose of locating, con-
structing, equipping, maintaining and operating a rail-
road from some suitable point at or near Quantico or Ma-
thias Point, in the counties of Prince William and King
George, running through the counties of Prince William
or King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Louisa, Gooch-
land, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Appomattox
or Prince Edward, Campbell or Charlotte, Halifax and
Pittsylvania, to Danville, or some point within twenty-five
miles of same: provided that said railroad shall be loca-
ted on the most direct practicable route from said point
on the Potomac, or from Fredericksburg to Danville, and
shal] have no power to build branches more than ten
miles in length on the east side thereof, or any branch
whatever east of the main stem until the said main stem
shall have been completed and put in operation, except for
construction purposes: and provided further, that no part
of said main stem shall be operated north of Fredericks-
burg, until that portion between Mineral City and Fred-
ericksburg shall have been completed and put in opera-
tion, except for construction purposes.

8 11. The said Virginia mineral belt railroad company
shall commence work under this bill within two and com-
plete the same within ten years from the passage of this
act amendatory of the original bill.

§ 12: This company may acquire title to mineral and
timbered lands along the line of its road not exceeding
fifty thousand acres, for the purpose of providing freights
for its road.

§ 13. This company may acquire title to such lands as
may be necessary, not exceeding five hundred acres, at its
terminus on the Potomac river, and at or near Fredericks-
burg, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining such
docks, wharves, ways, shops, sheds, offices, quarters, store-
houses, et cetera, thereon as may be suitable and conve-
nient for the accommodation of all classes of steam and
sailing craft; the building, repairing and sheltering of all
kinds of railroad stock; the shipping, transporting and
storing of merchandise and property subject to transporta-
tion; and said company is empowered to own, charter and
run or navigate vessels of every sort necessary to develop,
accommodate and increase its traffic.

§ 14. The principal office of this company shall be in
the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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