Chap. 222.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Potts Valley railroad and iron company, as amended and
re-enacted by chapter 140 of the session acts of 1893-’84, approved February

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Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potts Valley rail-
road and iron company, as amended and re-enacted by chapter one
hundred and forty of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-three
and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, approved February sixth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: ;

2. The annual meetings of said company shall be held at such
place, either within or without the limits of this state, and at such
time as may be fixed by the directors or stockholders of said com-
pany, but its principal office shall be in this state. The first meet-
ing of the stockholders or corporators shall be held at Covington,
in this state, after publication of notice of the time of such meeting
for two weeks in some newspaper, published in said town, and by
letter from one or more of said corporators to the others. Notice of
the other meetings, general or special, shall be given in the manner
prescribed by the by-laws of the company, and in the absence of any
such by-laws, the notice shall be such as is provided by the laws of
this state for such companies.

The construction of said road to be begun in two years and com-
pleted in five years, from April the first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six.

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