CHaP. 8.—An ACT changing the time for commencing the con-
struction of the railr authorized under the act of the gen-
eral assembly, approved December 20, 1889, incorporating the
Washington and Western railroad company and completing
the main line referred to therein.

Approved December 15, 1891.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia.
That section eight of chapter twenty-nine of the private
acts of the session of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read ag
follows:

§ 8. The Norfolk and Western railroad company now
vested with the stock, property and francbises of the
Washington and Western railroad company, shall be re-
quired to commence the construction of the said railroad.
formerly of the Washington and Western railroad com.
pany, within two years from December twentieth, eighteex
hundred and ninety-one, and to complete the construc.
tion of said line to a point of connection with the Mary-
land and Washington division of the Norfolk and Wes.
tern railroad company, within six years thereafter, or oth.
erwise the powers, privileges and franchises hereby granted
shal! be ipso facto void.

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