Chap. 267.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company as the suc-
cessor of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company, approved
February 12, 1894.

Approved February 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Ohio river and
Charleston railroad company as the successor of the Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company, approved February
twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is
hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 8. The Ohio river and Charleston railroad company shall begin
the further construction of its said railroad on or before the first
day of November next, and complete the same within four years from
the passage of this (amended) act, provided the same shall, on or be-
fore the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven,
be completed from the Tennessee state line to Gate City, Virginia ;
and provided, further, that for the formation of a continuous line of
railroad as hereinbefore provided for, the said company is author-
ized, by and with the consent of the South Atlantic and Ohio rail-
road company, or its successors, to use a portion of the track of said
company for adistance not exceeding fifteen miles, upon such terms
and conditions as may be agreed upon between the two companies.
And the said South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company may use for
traffic purposes a portion of the track of the Ohio river and Charles-
ton railroad company, by and with the consent of the latter com-
pany, upon such arrangement as to the joint use of the said latter
company’s track as may be agreed on between the two companies;
and provided, further, that if the said Ohio river and Charleston
railroad company shall, ‘within the four years aforesaid, complete
its road from the Tennessee state line to Saint Paul, in Wise county,
or to some point between Saint Paul and the Kentucky line, then
the same shall be deemed a sufficient compliance with the pro-

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visions of this act and of the charter of the company without its
fully completing its road to the Kentucky line, but this proviso
shall not be held to extend the time for the construction of the main
line of the said road, or any part thereof, beyond the period of four
years as aforesaid.

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