Chap. 298.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February
5, 1890, entitled an act to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations
of other States or countries to conduct operations in this State.

Approved March 25, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act to enable certain mining and manufacturing corporations of
other States or countries to conduct operations in this State, approved
February fifth, eighteen hundred and nincty, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That corporations chartered or organized under the laws of other
States or countries and authorized to manufacture iron, steel, or other
metals, or any articles or materials made from metal, wood, cotton, or
wool, or io mine ores or coals, may carry on in this State the business
authorized by their respective charters or by the articles under which
they are or may be organized; and for this purpose may purchase, ac-
quire, lease, sell, mortgage, and convey real estate in fee and any other
interest in lands and personal property of every kind suitable for their
business, and erect and operate all requisite furnaces, forges, mills,
foundries, machinery, buildings, plants, and appliances: provided, that
no such company shall be allowed to acquire and hold more than ten
thousand acres in any one county. The limitations of the quantity of
land which such a corporation may acquire and hold shall not apply to
the counties of Tazewell, Russell, and Buchanan.

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