Chap. 204.—An ACT to authorize the Altoona coal and iron company to make
or carry out contracts with the Bertha zinc and mineral company, and to
ratify the same.

Approved February 10, 1894.

Whereas the Altoona coal and ironcompany was heretofore duly
incorporated by the general assembly of Virginia by an act approved
January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and
known as chapter forty-five of the actsof eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight for certain
corporate purposes, and was invested with certain rights and fran-
chises; and whereas the said Altoona coal and iron company has
sold to the said Bertha zinc and mineral company all of its capital
stock, property, rights and corporate franchises:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said Altoona coal and iron company be, and it is hereby, authorized,
upon such terms as may be agreed upon by said companies, to sell,
transfer, convey, and deliver to the said Bertha zinc and mineral com-
pany, or its successor, or to such company as the said Bertha zinc
and mineral company shall request, all of the charter rights, privi-
leges, powers, franchises, effects and property, real, personal and
mixed, heretofore or now owned by the said Altoona coal and iron
company, and the same shall pass to, vest in, and enure to the bene-
fit of the said Bertha zinc and mineral company, or its successor, or
the company it may direct, by virtue of this act; and the signature
of the said Altoona coal and iron company, by its president, with
the seal of the said corporation affixed, without more, shall be asuf-
ficient execution of any legal document or writing of said corpora-
tion to carry out the purposes of this act: provided that the consent
of the stockholders in general or called meeting shall be first ob-
tained, and all contracts and agreements heretofore made by the said
Altoona coal and iron company for the sale, transfer and convey-
ance and merger of the capital stock, property, franchises, privileges
and rights of any kind, of the said Altoona coal and iron company,
to and with the said Bertha zinc, and mineral company, or its agent
or officers, or its predecessors, are hereby ratified, confirmed and
made valid in every respect.

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