Chap. 202.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to
authorize the Washington and Leesburg turnpike company, a corpor-
ation incorporated under the laws of Virginia, to take possession of
eertain 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 ciass
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.

Approved March 13, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled ‘‘an act to authorize the Washington and Lees-
burg turnpike company, a corporation incorporated under the
laws of Virginia, to take possession of certain turnpikes aban-
doned as such and now used as county roads, in the counties of
Loudoun, Fairfax and Alexandria; and also to take possession o1
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 pav for the construction, operation and maintenance
of the same,” approved January thirty-one, nineteen hundred
and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That the Washington and Leesburg turnpike company,
a corporation incorporated by the corporation commission of
Virginia on the sixth day of January, nineteen hundred and ten,
be, and it is hereby, authorized to take possession of the t:rn-
pike 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 Dranesville, the said turnpike from Leesburg to
Dranesville having been abandoned 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 run-
ning along and over said Dranesville and Alexandria turnpike
to Tyson’s cross roads.
$2. When said Washington and Leesburg turnpike company
shall have constructed said turnpike rrom Leesburg to said Ty-
son’s cross roads, or any section of the five miles thereof, and
the same shall have been accepted 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 ex-
pended thereon such 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 or a
turnpike acceptable to the proper authorities.

$4. The charter of said Washington and Leesburg turnpike
company having declared it “to be the purpose of the Washing-
ton and Leesburg turnpike company not to construct, maintain
and operate said turnpike primarily as a company for a profit,”
it is enacted that whenever the counties of Fairfax 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 turn-
pike constructed by the said Washington and Leesburg turnpike
company, shall become henceforth and forever a free public high-
way 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 and Fairfax, either, separately or jointly, or by the
Commonwealth of Virginia, or by some person, corporation 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 pass-
age 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 maintaining in good order said turn-
pike and to pay the operating expenses of the same.

$5. No stock in said Washington and Leesburg turnpike com-
pany 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 completed within two 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 purpose of enforcing the pro-
visions of this act.

$7. An emergency existing for the speedy commencement ot
the construction of said turnpike, this act shall be in force from
its passage.