Chap. 55.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and section 7 of an act
entitled an act to incorporate the Potts Valley railroad and iron company,
approved February 11, 1892.

Approved January 13, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one,
chapter one hundred and eighty-seven, of the acts of assembly of eghteen
hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and sec-
tion seven of said chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the acts of
assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, as amended and re-enacted by chapter one hundred and forty,
of the acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, approved Iebruary sixth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and as further amended and re-enacted by
chapter two hundred and twenty-two, of the acts of assembly of eighteen
hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, approved
February fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-
enacted so that the said sections, respectively, shall read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Frank
Lyman, Thomas W. Stiles, and G. B. Schley, of New York city; John
F. Winslow, of Cincinnati, Ohio; E. C. Means, of Ashland, Kentucky;
George L. Carter, of Bristol, Virginia; ‘Thomas Preston Trigg, of
Abingdon, Virginia, and Cornelius Shields, of Bristol, ‘Tennessee, their
associates, successors and assigns, and all others who may become stock-
holders, are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate,
under the name and style of the Potts Valley iron railway company,
for the purposes hereinafter declared; and the said company is hereby
invested with all the rights, powers, and privileges, and made subject
to all the rules, regulations, and restrictions provided and prescribed in
the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven of this state, in relation
to such corporations, and any laws amendatory thereof, so far as the
same are applicable and not repugnant to or inconsistent with the powers,
rights, and privileges herein granted.

§ %. The annual meeting of said company shall be held at such place,
either within or without the limits of this state, and at such time as may
be fixed by the directors or stockholders of said company, but its princi-
pal office shall be in this state. ‘The first mecting of the stockholders or
corporators shall be held at Covington, in this state, after publication of
notice of the time of such meeting for two weeks in some newspaper
published in said town, and by letter from one or more of said corporators
to the others. Notice of the other meetings, general or special, shall be
given in the manner prescribed by the by-laws of the company, and in
the absence of any such by-laws, the notice shall be such as is provided
by the laws of this state for such companies.

The construction of said road to be begun in two years and completed
in five years, from April the first, nineteen hundred.

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