Chap. 669.--An ACT to amend and re-enact. sections 6 and 10 of an act of the
general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900, entitled an act to in-
corporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company, and to
ratify and amend an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved Febru-
ary 16, 1901, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of an act
of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 15, 1901, entitled an act
to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company.

Approved April 2, 1902.

Whereas, in the title of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections six and ten of an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, en-
titled an act to incorporate the New River, Ifolston and Western Rail-
road Company, the date January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one,
was inserted by mistake for the correct t date, January fifteenth, nineteen
hundred: now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
sections six and ten of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, ap-
proved January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled an act to
incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Company, be
ratified, and that sections six and ten of an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, entitled an
act to incorporate the New River, Holston and Western Railroad Com-
pany, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 6. For the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad it
shall be lawful for anv county, city, or town in Virginia through or near
which said railroad shall pass to subscribe to the c ‘apital stock of the said
company in the manner and in the amounts prescribed and fixed by the
general law in reference to such subscriptions; and it shall be lawful for
Bland county to subscribe to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand
dollars to the capital stock of said company: provided, that the said
Bland county subscription shall only be available if said railroad shall
he completed to Rocky Gap, in the county of Bland, within ten years
from the first dav of January, nineteen hundred and two.

$10. In organizing the said company the persons named in this act
shall constitute the first board of directors, and shall serve until the fir:
mecting of the stockholders; and the said incorporators may act and re
ceive subscriptions to the capital stock at any time and place, and when
twenty-five thousand dollars is subscribed, they shall convene the stect-
holders and organize said company. At said meeting one of their number
shall preside, and the chairman and secretary of said meeting shall cer-
tify on the books of the company to the legal organization of said com-
pany.

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