Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Potomac river power company, approved January 21, 1896.

Aj proved January 27, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potomac river power
company, approved January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-
s1x, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§7. The said company shall be required to commence the construction
of its works within two vears from the passage of this act; otherwise the
powers, privileges, and franchises hereby granted shall be forfeited, and
in constructing its said works said company shall have the right to place
its poles and string its wires over and along any public road in Alexan-
dria and Fairfax counties: provided that the approval of the board of
supervisors of the respective counties wherein the road proposed to be
thus used is located shall first be obtained; and provided, further, that
free travel on such road shall not be obstructed.

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