Chap. 317.—An ACT to relieve the south and western railway company from
any possible forfeiture of its charter.

Approved March 17, 1906.

Whereas the south and western railway company was incorporated by
chapter four hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of the general assembly
of Virginia, approved April second, one thousand nine hundred and
two; and

Whereas section eight of the charter of this company provided that said
company shall have thirty (30) miles of road in operation in Virginia
within two years from the date of said act or the rights thereby granted
should cease; and

Whereas the south and western railway company has heretofore con-
solidated with the south and western railway company of Tennessee and
the south and western railway of Kentucky under the name of the south
and western railway company ; and

Whereas the south and western railway company on the fifteenth day
of November, nineteen hundred and four, applied for and obtained from
the State corporation commission an amendment and extension of its
charter ; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the south
and western railway company be, and is hereby, relieved of any possible
forfeiture of its charter rights, or any of them, by reason of its failure to
have thirty (30) miles of road in operation in Virginia within two years
from the passage of said act, or by reason of any other act or omission to
act whatsoever; and that the said forfeiture or cause of forfeiture, if anv
such existed at any time or now exists, be, and the same hereby is, r-
mitted upon the condition that the south and western railway company
shall hereafter hold its charter subject to all the provisions of the Con-
stitution of Virginia and of all laws passed in pursuance thereof.

2. It being desirable that the said south and western railway company
should be immediately relieved from all question as to its charter rights.
an emergency is declared for the passage of this act, which shall be in
force from its passage.