Chap. 685.—An ACT to incorporate the Great Falls power company.

Approved March 5, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Virginia,
That Oliver D. Barrett, Nehemiah G. Ordway, Paul Butler, John B.
Cotton, Frank L. Washburn, and such other persons as they may
associate with them, be, and the same are hereby, incorporated and
made a body politic under the name and style of the Great Falls
power company, for the purpose of acquiring, holding, improving
and using water power at the Great Falls in the Potomac river, and
for constructing dams therein, canals and other hydraulic and aux-
iliary steam works, which acts are hereby authorized, and for
the selling and leasing of water power, and for using the same for
manufacturing and other purposes, and for generating, transmitting,
selling and leasing electricity, electric power and light, for railway
and canal as well as other purposes, including also power to acquire,
by right of eminent domain in case the use is public, or by purchase
or otherwise, and to hold and improve real and personal property
for the foregoing purposes in Virginia and elsewhere, and to sell,
lease and mortgage the same, subject to all laws of the state of Vir-
ginia now in force in relation to other like corporations.

2. In case private property shall be taken for any of the public
uses provided for in this act, and the parties cannot agree as
to the taking and the damages to be paid therefor, proceedings may
be had under chapter forty-six of the code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven.

3. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars nor more than two millions and
five hundred thousand dollars. Work under this charter shall be
begun within one year from its passage.

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