Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and nine of an act en-
titled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake bay and Great Western rail-
way company, approved February 19, 1894.

Approved January 15, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one and nine of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chesa-
peake bay and Great Western railway company, approved February
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Mar-
shall M. Gilliam, T. William Pemberton, and H. A. McCurdy, of the
city of Richmond; Doctor B. L. Winston, of Hanover; Thomas L.
Rosser and Thomas L. Rosser, junior, of Albemarle, and F. G. Win-
ston, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, or such of them as may accept the
provisions of this act, their associates, successors, and assigns be,
and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and cor-
porate, under the name and style of the Chesapeake bay and Great
Western railway company, and as such are authorized and empow-
ered to locate, contruct, equip, maintain, and operate a railroad, com-
mencing at some point on the waters of the Chesapeake bay between
the mouth of the James and the mouth of the Rappahannock rivers,
to or near Hanover Junction, in the county of Hanover, or to some
point on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad south
of said Hanover Junction. ;

§2. The said company shall be required to commence the con-
struction of the said railroad within two vears from the passage of
this amended act, and to complete the construction of their line
within five years thereafter.

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