Chap. 695.—An ACT torevive and continue the charter of the Old

Dominion iron and nail works company and the additional

wers conferred on said company by an act approved Febru-

ary 26, 1884, to reincorporate said company and to validate and

confirm all acts performed by said company since the expira-
tion of its former charter.

Approved March 8, 1892.

Whereas the Old Dominion iron and nail works com-
pany was duly incorporated by an order of the county
court of Henrico county, entered on the fourth day of Jan-
uary, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and whereas ad-
ditional] powers were conferred on said company by an act
of the general assembly, approved February twenty-sixth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, which order of court,
the certificate of incorporation granted said company
thereby, the certificates annexed thereto, and act of assem-
bly are in the words and figures following, to-wit:

Virginia: In Henrico county court, January 4, 1858:

2. The court doth certify that on this fourth day of Jan-
uary, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, Hugh W. Fry, Wil-
liam S. Triplett, Isaac Davenport, junior, and Charles T.
Wortham, personally appeared and prayed the court to
incorporate them (and others) as a company for the pur-
pose of manufacturing under the name and style of the
“Old Dominion iron and nail works company,” and to grant
to them a eharter or certificate of incorporation as such,
and to certify the same to the secretary of state for the
commonwealth of Virginia, according to the provisions of
the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,
entitled “an act to provide for the organization of compa-
nies for mining and manufacturing purposes,” and of an
act to amend the same, passed on the first day of March,
eighteen hundred and fifty-six—which charter or cer-
tificate of incorporation, as presented and asked for by
them, is as follows, to-wit:

Certificate of incorporation of the “Old Dominion iron
and nail works company.”

Commonwealth of Virginia—County of Henrico, to-wit:

3. Be it known that we, Hugh W. Fry, William S. Trip-
Jett, Isaac Davenport, junior, and Charles T. Wortham,
whose names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby associate
ourselves together, and with us George D. Fisher, E. Mil-
ler, A. Y. Stokes and others, and form a body politic and
corporate, pursuant to and in conformity with the act of
the general assembly of the state of Virginia, entitled “an
act to provide for the organization of companies for mining
and manufacturing purposes,” passed March third, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-four, and of an act amending the
same, passed on the eleventh day of March, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-six; and we do make the following state-
ment and declarations in reference thereto pursuant to the
requisitions of the said statutes, to-wit:

I. The name and style by which this company shall be
known shall be “The Old Dominion iron and nail works
company.”

IL. The objects and purposes for which this corporation
is formed are specially and mainly for the manufacture of
iron, in nails and such other articles, modes and forms in
which iron can or may be manufactured, as may from time
to time be deemed advisable by the said corporation; and
incidentally or collaterally for the transacting of such
other business and carrying on or establishing of such
other works, manufacturing or otherwise, as may be appro-
priate or expedient, to be connected or united with the
same.

III. The capital stock of the corporation shall be one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into fifteen
hundred shares of one hundred dollars per share, but with
the privilege of increasing the said capital stock to five
hundred thousand dollars, so as to make the whole num-
ber of shares five thousand of one hundred dollars per
share. In meeting of stockholders each share, to be enti-
tled to one vote; such meetings to be annual, with author-
ity to the directors, or a majority of them, to call special
meetings whenever deemed advisable.

IV. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a
president and four directors, who, together, shall constitute
a board of directors, to be elected for one year, and to con-
tinue in office until their successors shall be elected.
There shall also be such other officers as the stockholders
may deem necessary; and in reference to this, as to other
subjects not herein provided for, the stockholders shall
have the right to establish such by-laws as may be re-
quired or proper. The following persons shall be the offi-
cers of the company for the first year, and until their suc-
cessors have been chosen, to-wit: William 8S. Triplett,
president; and Isaac Davenport, junior, Hugh W. Fry,
Lewis D. Crenshaw, and Charles T. Wortham, directors.

V. The amount of land held by the said corporation
shall not exceed one hundred acres, and to that extent
they shall be authorized and empowered, as occasion may
offer, to acquire and receive conveyances therefor from the
owners and parties interested in the same—and, among
others, from the present owners and parties interested in
the real estate and improvement thereon, water-rights, priv-
ileges and appurtenances, constituting the property known
as the Belle Isle works, in the county of Henrico, and state
of Virginia, estimated to contain thirteen and two-fifths
acres, be the same more or less. And the said corporation
shall in like manner be authorized and empowered to ac-
quire and receive conveyances for such slaves as may be
needed or required for their uses and purposes in and
about their works and business aforesaid. The said cor-
poration shall also be authorized and empowered, in regard
to any land or slaves, or any personal property whatever,
which they may acquire in any wise, should the same turn
out unsuitable for their objects, or should they deem it
advisable to sell the same, to sell and dispose of the same
accordingly.

VI. The operations of said corporation shall be car-
ried on in the county of Henrico, upon lands therein to
be held by them; and the chief office of business shall be
either upon the said Jands or in the city of Richmond, in
Virginia, or elsewhere, as shall be determined upon from
time to time by the said corporation.

In witness whereof, the said Hugh W. Fry, William 8.
Triplett, Isaac Davenport, junior, and Charles T. Wortham,
have hereunto set their hands and seals, at and in the
presence of the county court of the county of Henrico, at
the court-house thereof, this fourth day of January,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

Hue W. Fry, Seal |
WILLIAM S. TRIPLETT, Seal.
Isaac DAVENPORT, JR., Seal|
CHARLES T. WorTHAM, [Seal.

Which certificate of incorporation or charter was then
in open court signed, sealed and acknowledged by the
said Hugh W. Fry, William S. Triplett, Isaac Davenport,
junior, and Charles T. Wortham, as by the said acts pre-
scribed.

Whereupon the court, considering the said petition as
reasonable and proper, and made in conformity with law,
doth in pursuance of the said acts of the general assem-
bly of Virginia, charter and incorporate the said “ Old
Dominion iron and nail works company,” in the manner
and with the provision set out in the form of charter or
certificate of incorporation presented by them, and directs
that a copy of the same and of these proceedings be cer-
tified, under the seal of the court, to the secretary of state
for the commonwealth of Virginia.

State of Virginia, Henrico county—to wit:

I, Temple Ellett, clerk pro tempore of Henrico county
court, in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true transcript from the records of the said
court.

In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and
annex the seal of the said court, this sixth day of Janu-
ary, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

[Seal. ] TEMPLE ELLETT,
C. H. C. pro tempore.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RicHMOND, January 6, 1858.

I, George W. Munford, secretary of the commonwealth
of Virginia, do hereby certify that in conformity to law,
@ company under the name and style of the “ Old Domin-
ion iron and nail works company,” filed with me on the
sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, a
certificate in writing of its incorporation, and a copy of
the order of the county court of Henrico, on the fourth
day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, grant-
ing the incorporation; a copy of which certificate and
order of court is hereto attached.

Given under my hand the day and year first aforesaid.
An act to authorize the Old Dominion iron and nail works
company to purchase timber lands in the counties of
Chesterfield, Amelia, Rockbridge, Powhatan and Bote-
tourt, and to sell and convey the same, approved Febru-
ary 26, 1884.

4. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the Old Dominion iron and nail works company be,
and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to purchase in
each of the counties of Chesterfield, Amelia, Rockbridge,
Powhatan and Botetourt not exceeding twenty thousand
acres of timber land, the said company desiring this priv-
ilege for the purpose of procuring timber for the manufac-
ture of nail kegs, et cetera, and said company may at its
pleasure sell and convey the said lands.

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

A copy,
J. BELL BIGGER,
Clerk of the house of delegates and keeper of the rolls of
Virginia.

6. And whereas the charter of incorporation as above set
forth has expired by operation of law; therefore,

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia—

§ 1. That said charter of incorporation, with the addi-
tional powers conferred by said act of assembly, be, and
the same are hereby, revived and continued; that the per-
sons who were stockholders of said Old Dominion iron and
nail works company at the time of the expiration of its
charter or who have succeeded to their rights, be, and they
are hereby, re-incorporated and constituted a body corpo-
rate and politic by the same name of the Old Dominion
iron and nail works company, with all the rights, powers
and privileges contained in said certificate granted by
said county court of Henrico and the act of assembly
hereinbefore set forth, and with all the rights, powers and
privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and
limitations conferred or imposed on similar corporations
by the laws of this state; that those persons who were
stockholders of said corporation at the time of the expi-
ration of its charter and those who have succeeded to the
rights of such stockholders since that time, be, and they
are hereby, made stockholders in said company as hereby
revived, continued and re-incorporated, and that all con-
tracts made and all acts done aud performed by said stock-
holders or said corporation or in its name since the expi-
ration of its said charter, be, and the same are validated,
made binding and confirmed to the same extent, and to
that extent only, as if its charter had been in existence

during the whole time of the making of such contracts
r the doing or perfurming of said acts.

§ 2. Said company shall pay its taxes to the State in
noney and not in coupons.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from its passage.