The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-27
Richmond and EynchburG Railroad
Company.-ApprOved July II, 1870.

Be 1t enacted by the General assembly,
That the act TO incorporate the Richmond
| and Lynchburg Railroad Company, passed
| March 30th, 1860, as amended by the act
passed February 10Th, 1867, chapter 100, be
amended and recnacted 90 as to read as fol.
lows:
1t shall be lawful for Thomas ". Nc
Seph r. Anderson, David /. Burr, II. G.
Cabclt, w. G. Paine, Isaac Davenport, Jr.,
William 3. Isaacs, Parker Campbell, John
d. Harvey, Willis j. Dance, William
?. Burwell, w. A. Perkins, Thomas
L. Robinson, Thomas L. Bondurant,
William Kicker, w. Ii. Perkins, George
D. Saunders, Wilson Hicks, Lloyd j.
Reall, Peyton Wise, John a. Meredith,
George Baughman, Robert F. Williams,
John +. Lay, Francis D. Irving, Robert
Hubbard, William NJ. Perkins, and L. D.
Isbell, or any five OF them, to receive SUBJ
scriptions to the capital stock of the Rich
mond and Lynchburg Railroad Company,
and to superintend the organization OF said
company. For this purpose they may cause
books of subscription to be opened at such
times and places as they may deem proper,
and under the superintendent Of such
persons as they may appoint. The SUBJ
scriptions shall be IN shares Of 300 each
and when 1000 shares, ut the least, shall
rations able to pay, other than internal I'M
provement companies, the subscribers and
such persons as may thereafter be lawfully
associated with them, shall be corpora
ton under the name Of the Richmond
and Lynchburg Railroad Company, for
the purpose Of constructing and ope-
rating railroad from the city of Richmond,
Or some point on the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad to the city OF Lynchburg,
where it may form junction with any rail-
road passing through, or terminating in,
The city of Lynchburg. And the said COM
pany shall be subject to the general railroad
laws of Virginia, except SO fur as is herein
otherwise provided.
The capital stock of said company shall
be not less than one hundred thousand nor
more than five million dollars, divided in
shares of one hundred dollars each, and the
stockholders shall have one vote for each
share of stock.
1t shall be lawful for the cities of Rich
| mond and Lynchburg, and for any county
or township on the line of the proposed
railroad, or on the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, or on the line of the Vir-
gnia and Tennessee railroad, to subscribe
| to the capital stock of the Richmond and
| Lyuchburg Railroad Company in such
manner and under such rules and recu-
| lations as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law, and to this end the pro-
per authorities OF such city, county, or
township may at their discretion cause a
vote to be taken ut such time as the said
richmond and Lynchburg Railroad Com
pany may ask.
1t shall be lawful for the sud company to
borrow money and to issue bonds or other
evidences Of debt at rate of interest not
exceeding the maximum allowed by law.
ana TO secure the payment Of principal and
No discrimination whatever shall be made
by the said company in its charges against
| any connecting railroad or canal company in
(which the state has On interest, and the