Chap. 478.—An ACT to incorporate the Warrenton and Waterloo Road Company.
Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. T. Riley,
H. T. Romey, J. D. Varner, James Cropp, J. H. McCabe, Charles Daniel,
W. W. Carter, junior, William Robinson, Clarence Lake, William H.
(iains, J. M. Romey, George 8. Smith, A. Schwab, Edloe Suddith, H. B.
Stopp, B. F. Martyn, J. D. Jolly, and E. J. Hotchkiss, together with all
others who may hereafter subscribe to or become owners of the stock of
the company, are hereby authorized to be, and they are hereby consti-
tuted, a body politic and corporate under the name and style of War-
renton and Waterloo Road Company, with all the rights and privileges
and subject to all the liabilities, under the general law of the State of
Virginia, made and provided in reference to joint-stock companies.

2. That the capital stock of the company shall be five thousand dol-
lars, divided into shares of five hundred dollars each. J.T. Riley, E. A.
Romey, J. D. Varner, J. H. McCabe, and George 8. Smith, or any one of
them, are hereby appointed commissioners to open books for subscription
at such place or places as they may select; and so soon as four hundred
dollars of the stock shall have been subscribed to the first two miles of said
road from Warrenton to Waterloo, the said commissioners, upon reason-
able notice, personally or by publication, to the subscribers, shall call a
meeting, to assemble at Warrenton, at such time as the said commis-
sioners may indicate in said notice for the purpose of organization.

3. The object of the said company is to make, maintain, and keep in
good order, and macadamize the same to the extent of their ability, the
county road from Warrenton to Waterloo; and for this purpose the stock-
holders may, at their first general meeting, make such assessment upon
themselves as they may deem proper, not exceeding the amount of sub-
scription; and thereafter the directors, who shall not be less than three
nor more than five, and who shall be elected by the stockholders at their
first meeting, and thereafter at such meetings of the stockholders as they
may determine, may make such assessment as they may elect, not to ex-
ceed the aggregate of their stock.

4. That the property holders whose road tax, under and by virtue of
this act, is applicable to the improvement of the said road may antici-
pate the payment of the said tax for the whole period of four years, or
any portion thereof, and the treasurer of Fauquier county shall receive
and account for the same.

5. That the road tax of all the property holders, commencing with
C. F. Gaines, W. H. Gaines’ estate, outside the boundary line of the town
of Warrenton, B. F. Martyn, A. E. Bishop, E. J. Suddith, J. D. Jolly,
J. E. Saunders, George S. Smith, H. B. Stopp, E. J. Hotchkiss, A. M.
Curtis’ estate, —— Armstrong, W. H. Gaines (not applied to Warren-
ton and Fauquier Springs road), T. A. Romey’s estate, B. F. Lake’s es-
tate, James Robinson, W. E. Robinson, A. D. Rogers’ estate (Oakwood),
W. W. Carter, junior, J. H. McCabe, C. T. Hayes, Ernest Hayes, J. D.
Varner, James Cropp, H. T. Romey, A. Schwab, J. FE. Armstrong, and
J. T. Riley, and any other lands that may be omitted lying within one
mile of said road not hertofore appropriated to the Warrenton and Fau-
quier Springs Road Company and to the Warrenton and Marshall Road
Company, be collected by the treasurer of Fauquier county and paid as
now required by section twenty-four of the act approved February twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, as amended by an act approved
March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, in reference to
the roads of Fauquier county, and paid over to the said Warrenton and
Waterloo Road Company, to be applied to the improvement of said road.

6. That the treasurer of this company shall give bond in the penalty
of one thousand dollars, with security to be approved by the county
court, and shall settle his accounts annually as to the public moneys re-
ceived by him before the commissioner of accounts, who shall return the
same to the county court, as well as to the said company.

%. The corporate authorities of the town of Warrenton are hereby au-
thorized to subscribe to the stock of said company in such sum as they
may see proper.

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