Chap. 946.—An ACT to authorize the town of Farmville to grant a twenty-five-
year franchise to any incorporated railway company or street railway company
to lay tracks and run cars by any power other than steam power, along the
public streets of said town.

Approved March 4, 1£98.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the town
of Farmville shall, through its council, have full power and authority to
grant to any railway company or street car company duly organized and
incorporated, the exclusive franchise of laying tracks and running rail-
way cars or street cars, propelled by any power other than steam engines
along any of the public streets of said town, as now bounded, or as here-
after extended in its boundary, for a space of time not excceding twenty-
five years, subject to such conditions, restrictions, and limitations as
said council may deem proper to annex to said grant and subject to the

general statute laws of the commonwealth of Virginia applicable to street
raillwave.

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