Chap. 714.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act
approved May 18, 1887, entitled ‘‘an act to revive and re-enact
the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville railroad com-
pany, and to amend the same.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section eight of the act entitled an act to revive,
amend and re-enact the charter of the Farmville and Char-
lottesville railroad company, approved May eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is
hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 8. The said company shall organize within one year,
and construct its railroad from some central point in the
county of Buckingham to one of the railroads named, or
to the Richmond and Alleghany or Buckingham railroads
within two years from the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two. In the latter event its right to
construct the whole line hereby authorized shall in no re-
spect be forfeited within five years from the said first day
of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and all of the
rights, franchises and privileges heretofore granted in any
provision of this charter to the Farmville and Charlottes-
ville railroad company, which has changed its name to the
“ Orange-Keysville railroad company,” in accordance with
the statute authorizing said change, shall inure and be-
long to any corporation that may be formed or created ac-
cording to law hy a sale and conveyance of the works and
property of the said company: provided, however, that
neither the said company, nor its successors, shall claim
or assert any right under subscription by elections hereto-
fore held to the bonds of the county of Buckingham: and
provided further, that neither the said company nor its
successors shall claim or assert any right under subscrip-
tions by elections heretofore held to the bonds of the
county of Prince Edward after the thirty-first day of
March, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, unless the por-
tions of the road shall have been completed in said county
of Prince Edward by March thirty-first, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, as specified and provided for in the
present existing contract between the said railroad com-
pany and the board of supervisors of the said county of
Prince Edward, but the said counties of Prince Edward
and Buckingham after March thirty-first, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-two, and any other counties, cities or
towns, at any time, which is allowed in the said charter
and amendments thereto to subscribe to the stock of said
company, are hereby authorized to make subscriptions to
the stock of the said company or its successors, after elec-
tions which upon application of the said company or its
successors hereafter, the judge of any of said counties or
the proper authorities of said towns or cities, may order.

2. It is further provided that nothing in this act shall
be construed to impose upon the county of Buckingham
any liability by reason of the contract entered into be-
tween the said county and the said Farmville and Char-
lottesville railroad company, which has changed its name
to the Orange-Keysville railroad company, on the twenty-
first day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
or of any action of the county court or the board of super-
visors of said county, or of the election held in said county
on the subject of a county subscription to the stock of the
said railroad company.

3. It is further provided that no election ordered under
this act by the county of Buckingham shall be lawful and
binding unless a majority of the registered freeholders of
said county vote in the affirmative.

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