Chap. 650.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 6 of an act entitled
an act to incorporate the Mineral belt railway and tramway company, ap-
proved January 18, 1898.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions one and six of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mine-
ral belt railway and tramway company, approved January eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Row-
land F. Hill, Frederic Kernochan, William Mann, W. H. Adams and
W. A. Little, junior, and any other person or persons that they may
associate with them, their successors and assigns, be, and they are
hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate under
the name and style of the Mineral belt railway and tramway com-
pany, and as such are authorized and empowered to locate, construct
and equip and operate a railway or tramway, to use steam, electricity
or any other motive power, commencing at a point at or near Mine-
ral City, on the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, in Louisa county,
thence to a terminus at or within twenty miles of Aquia creek, in
Stafford county, by such route as may be deemed most advisable by
the directors of said company; and by that name shall be known in
law.

- § 6. The said company is authorized and empowered to locate, con-
struct, equip and operate lateral or branch railways or tramways
from any point on its line of railroad to any timber, ore banks,
mines or other operations in the counties of Louisa, Spotsylvania,
Orange, Culpeper and Stafford, or to connect the said line with any
other tramway or railroad now built or hereafter to be constructed
in or to eitherof the said counties; and the said company may connect
or unite its said road with that of any other company, or consolidate or
merge its stock and franchises with those of any other company opera-
ting or authorized to operate a connecting line of tramway upon such
terms as may be agreed upon between the companies so uniting or
connecting, merging or consolidating; and for this purpose power is
hereby given to it and to such other company or companies to make
and carry out such contracts as will facilitate and consummate such
connection, merger or consolidation.

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