Chap. 250.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Company, incorpo-
rated, to take possession of the turnpike leading from near Warrenton
to Fairfax Courthouse, and prescribing the terms and limitations of
the same, approved March 13, 1914, so as to enable the company to
take possession should it deem proper to do so, of a part, instead of
all of said old turnpike, and the old turnpike from Buckland to Gaines-
ville by way of Haymarket, or any portion thereof, and of certain
other highways or portions thereof. (H. B. 265.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to authorize the Warrenton and Fairfax
Turnpike Company, incorporated, to take possession of the
turnpike leading from near Warrenton to Fairfax courthouse,
and prescribing the terms and limitations of the same, approved
March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. That the Warrenton and Fairfax Turnpike Com-
pany, incorporated, a corporation duly incorporated by the cor-
poration commission cf the State of Virginia on the seventeenth
day of February, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be, and it is,
hereby authorized and empowered to take possession of so much
as it may think proper of that part of the old turnpike now
used as a public road extending from Warrenton to Fairfax
courthouse, beginning at a point where the same intersects the
boundary line of Fauquier and Prince William counties, about
one-half mile west of Buckland, and running thence to Gaines-
ville, and thence to Centerville, and thence to the corporate lim-
its of the town of Fairfax, and also to take possession of as much
as it may think proper of the old turnpike now used as a public
road extending from Buckland to Gainesville by way of Hay-
market, in Prince William county, and where it may be deemed
necessary in constructing a continuous line of turnpike road as
herein provided to leave the old turnpike, and to take possession
of any portion of any other public road in Fairfax county or in
Prince William county, and convert the portions of said old turn-
pike and other public roads of which it may take possession into
a serviceable turnpike or turnpikes.

Sec. 2. The company is hereby empowered to charge tolls
on any turnpike or turnpikes resulting from the conversion
which may be effected under the authority hereby granted, but
not in excess of those now or hereafter prescribed by law, and
not until the work of conversion has been completed for a sec-
tion of at least five miles and such section accepted as a turnpike
in the manner provided by law.

Sec. 3. Said turnpike or turnpikes shall be of a substan-
tial character, and may be constructed of stone, gravel, sand,
clay, or such other material as will meet this requirement.

S2c. 4. Whenever the State, or the counties of Fairfax and
Prince William, shall pay to the stockholders of said company
an amount representing the full par value of their stock, to-
gether with interest thereon at. six (6) per centum per annum,
subject to a credit of any dividends that may have been received
on said stock, then the said turnpike or turnpikes constructed
by the said company, and all rights of the company, shall pass
to the State or the counties, as the case may be, and the right
hereby given to the counties is also given each county separately
and independently, as to so much of said turnpike or turnpikes
as may lie therein. |

Sec. 5. No stock in said company shall be sold for less than
par, and all subscriptions to its stock shall be payable as the
board of directors may prescribe, in accordance with the law
now or hereafter in force.

Sec. 6. Said turnpike or turnpikes shall be commenced
within two (2) years from the passage of this act, and com-
pleted within the time prescribed by the law governing turnpike
companies; and said company shall, at all times, be under the
control and supervision of the State corporation commission,
for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act.

It being important that operations begin as soon as possible
under this act, an emergency exists and this act shall take effect
upon its passage.