Chap. 4.—An ACT to authorize the Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Com-
pany, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Virginia, to take pos-
session of certain turnpikes abandoned as such, and now used as county
roads in the counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria; and also to
take possession of a portion of a county road in Fairfax county, and to
improve said abandoned turnpikes or county roads, and said portion of
a county road, and to convert the same into a modern and high class
turnpike for the public convenience, whereon toll may be charged to pay
for the construction, operation and maintenance of the same.

Approved January 31, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the Wash-
ington and Leesburg Turnpike Company, a corporation incorporated by
the corporation commission of Virginia on the sixth day of January,
anno domini, nineteen hundred and ten, be, and it is hereby, authorized
to take possession of the turnpike leading from Leesburg, in Loudoun
county, to Dranesville, in Fairfax county, commencing at a point on said
turnpike leading from Leesburg to Dranesville, where said turnpike in-
tersects the corporate limits of the town of Leesburg, Loudoun county ;
and running thence along and over said turnpike to the village of Dranes-
ville, the said turnpike from Leesburg to Dranesville having been aban-
doned as a turnpike, and being now used as a county road, and to convert
said abandoned turnpike or county road into a modern and high class
turnpike, and said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company is also
authorized to take possession of that portion of turnpike leading from
Dranesville to Alexandria, commencing at Dranesville and running along
and over said Dranesville and Alexandria turnpike to a point on the same
where said Alexandria and Dranesville turnpike is intersected by a county
road running into same near the dwelling of Dr. Alfred Leigh, said turn-
pike from Dranesville to said county road being abandoned as a turnpike,
and being now used as a county road; and said Washington and Leesburg
Turnpike Company is also authorized to take possession of said county
road near the residence of said Dr. Alfred Leigh and to convert such por-
tion thereof not in excess of one-quarter of a mile, into a modern and
high class turnpike; and thence leaving said county road and running in
an easterly direction over the lands of different persons to a point on the
Georgetown and Leesburg turnpike about: one-quarter of a mile north-
west of Elkins station on the Great Falls and Old Dominion railway; and
said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company is further authorized
to take possession of that portion of the Georgetown and Leesburg turn-
pike commencing at said point on the same, which is about one-quarter of
a mile northwest of said Elkins station and running thence along and
over said Georgetown and Leesburg turnpike to the Chain Bridge on and
over the Potomac river, and to convert said portion of said Georgetown
and Leesburg turnpike into a modern and high class turnpike, the said
portion of said Georgetown and Leesburg turnpike commencing, as afore-
said, at about one-quarter of a mile northwest of said Elkins stations and
running to said Chain Bridge having been abandoned as a turnpike, and
being now used as a county road.

2. When said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company shall
have constructed said turnpike from Leesburg to said Chain Bridge, or
any section of the five miles thereof, and the same shal] have been ac-
cepted as a turnpike in accordance with law, the said Washington and
Leesburg Turnpike Company shall be, and is hereby, authorized to charge
toll on all of said turnpike, or such sections thereof as may be accepted
according to law, the said tolls to be those now prescribed, or that may
hereafter be prescribed by law.

3. In the construction of said turnpike there shall be expended there-
on not less than the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) and such
further sum as the said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company
may deem necessary to make said Washington and Leesburg turnpike a
modern and first-class turnpike.

4. The charter of said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company
having declared it “to be the purpose of the Washington and Leesburg
Turnpike Company not to construct, maintain and operate said turnpike,
primarily, as a company for profit,” it is enacted that whenever the coun-
ties of Fairfax, Alexandria and Loudoun, either jointly or separately, or
the Commonwealth of Virginia, shall pay to the stockholders of said
Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company the actual amount of
money expended by it, not in excess of the full par value of their stock;
the said turnpike constructed by the said Washington and Leesburg Turn-
pike Company shall become henceforth and forever a free public highway
on which no charge or toll shall be charged or collected for passage over
the same; but until said turnpike constructed by said Washington and
Leesburg Turnpike Company shall become a free public highway by the
payment to the stockholders of said company of the actual amount of
money expended by it, not in excess of the full par value of their stock, by
the counties of Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria, either separately or
jointly, or by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or by some person, corpora-
tion or association for said counties, or the Commonwealth of Virginia,
the said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company, shall have the
power and is hereby authorized to charge such toll for passage over said
turnpike as may be prescribed by law, and such toll shall be used by said
Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company for the purpose of main-
taining in good order said turnpike and to pay the operating expenses of
the same.

5. No stock in said Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company
shall be sold for less than par, and all subscriptions to the stock of said
company shall be payable in money, and no stock of said company shall
be issued until the full par value thereof shall have been paid to said
Washington and Leesburg Turnpike Company.

6. The said turnpike shall be commenced within six months from the
passage of this act, and completed within three years from the passage
of this act. The said turnpike company shall at all times be under the
control and supervision of the State corporation commission, for the pur-
pose of enforcing the provisions of this act.

7. An emergency existing for the speedy commencement of the con-
struction of said turnpike, this act shall be in force from its passage.