The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-01

| 1t is certainly to the interest of Richmond
that it should have complete success.
A LOCAL BILL OF INTEREsT.-A bill is
now before the Legislature, awaiting ac-
ton, to incorporate the Richmond Land,
Mining, ana Manufacturing Company. 1t
| incorporates S. C. Robinson, i. 5. Hamlin,
C. C. McRae, W. +. Giddings, T. IL.
Wynne, E. Mccarthy, A. C. Dunn, W. s.
Morris, and Charles Ellis, their associates
and successors, a body polite and corpo-
rate under the above name and style. The
capital stock Of the company not to be less
than $500, 900, divided into shares of 500
each, and may be increased to any amount
not exceeding S5,000,O00, by issue and
sale of shares thereof of 500 each from
time to time, under such regulations as the
Board of Directors of the said company
shall from time TO time presAribe.
The purposes Of the company are shown
in the following section:
The said company shall have power, and
may purchase, hold, grant, or otherwise
dispose of real and personal estate: pro-
ridsd, that not more than thirty-live thou
sand acres of land shall be purchased or
held by the said company at any one time !;
and the said company shall have power,
and may lay out said lands, or any part
thereof, into parcels or lots of convenient
size, with intervening roads, lanes, streets,
and alleys, and improve, cultivate, sell,
grant, mortgage, or otherwise dispose
thereof in such manner and upon suchterms
as the said company may think proper.
But after the expiration of ten years from
the passage of this act the said company
| l. Io o11nuyaI fp r,1rahose hold
any other lands or other real estate, ex-
cept such as may be acquired under the
fifth section of this act, until the quantity
then held by the said company shall be re.
duced below the quantity of ten thousand
acres-which shall be done within fifteen
wears from the date of this act-and there
after the said company shall not at any one
time purchase or hold more than ten thou
sand acres of land or other real estate.
The fifth section of the bill above allu-
ded to reads as follows:
"The preceding section shall not pre-
vent the said company from purchasing or
otherwise acquiring lands or other real
property over and above the quantity spe-
cited in this act, in satisfaction OF any
order, judgment, or decree, as collateral
security for, or in payment of any debt, or
| from purchasing at any sale made for its
benefit provided that not more than ten
thousand acres shall be purchased and
held at any one time under this section"
The ninth section provides that the said
company shall have power and may con-
tract at or near any port of entry in the
United States, Europe, or elsewhere, ex-
cept Africa, with any person whatsoever,
for the manual labor or skill of such per
son, on the farms, lands, or other proper
ties of the said company in the capacity OF
and as farm hands, wood choppers, me-
chanics, teamsters, seamen, or any other
service requiring manual labor or skill ;
and all such contracts so made as aforesaid,
and not inconsistent with existing laws,
shall be binding on the parties thereto
and the parties aforesaid SO con-
tracing to render manual labor, SCI.
vice, and skill, may be held TO the per-
formance of said labor, service, and skill
by the said company or its assignee, un-
der and in accordance with the bylaws,
rules, and regulations Of said company in
force at the time of the date of any such
contract, and which shall not he inconsist-
ent with the laws of Virginia. But no con-
tract for labor, service, and skill shall DC
binding for longer period than three
wears from the date thereof for adults, and
for infant males until they shall arrive at
the age of twenty-one years, and for fe-
males until they shall arrive to the age OF
eighteen years.
The principal office of the company to
be in Richmond, Va, and the Board OF
Directors are authorized to establish other
officers or agencies at such places as they
may think proper.