Chap. 146.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 12 of an act approved
February 4, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Metropolitan Western Rail-
road of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, as
amended by an act approved March 3, 1894, as amended by an act approved
January 30, 1896, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended
by an act approved January 22, 1900.

Approved March 10, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
three and twelve of an act approved February fourth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, entitled an act. to incorporate the Metropolitan Western
Railroad of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February six-
teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an act approved
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended by an act
approved January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and as
amended by an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, as amended by an act approved January twenty-second, nineteen
hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

8 3. The said Metropolitan Western Railroad Company is authorized
and empowered to locate, construct, equip, and operate a railroad of

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standard gauge, with a single or double track, commencing at a point
it may select on the Potomac river, in the counties of Loudoun or Fair-
fax, and running thence by the most practical, eligible, and direct route
deemed advisable by the board of directors of said company to such point
as they may select on the Potomac river, in the counties of Fairfax or
Prince William ; and it shall be lawful for said company to construct and
operate lateral or branch roads of standard gauge, not exceeding twenty
miles in length, which shall have all the right and powers and be sub-
ject to the same restrictions as the main line.

§ 12. The said company is required to commence the construction of
its railroad not later than the first day of January, in the year nineteen
hundred and four, and to complete the construction of its main line not
later than the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and
seven: provided, the failure of said company to complete the construction
of its main line within the time herein prescribed shall not affect the
corporate existence, franchise, and powers of said company as to the part
completed within said time.

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