Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-11
THE GREAT FALLS AND OLD DO
MINION RAILROAD co.
The following is a copy of the bill il


The following is copy of the bill in
troduced in the State Senate last week
by Mr.. Donohoe, to incorporate the
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway
Company:
/. Be 1t enacted by the General As
sembly OF Virginia, That joe. S. Miller,
CHARLES S. Bradley. S. Thos. Brown,
Rcbt. D. Weaver, Walter Hieston,
Walter R.Wilcox, and John G. Heald,
of Washington, District of Columbia,
Jos. Taber johnson, P. M. Rixey, A. B
G-unwell, Geo N Saegmulier, Geo. E.
Truett, T. B. Jewell, Albert Hines, s.
c. Heald, r. w. Moore, Geo. u. Bote-
Ter, D. S. Mackall, W w. Besley and
c w. Doubleday, of Virginia, or tuch
OF them as may accept the provisions OF
shis act, their associates, succe 'sors and
assigns be, and they are hereby, inc Dr.
porated and made body polite and cor
porate under the name aud style of the
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
Company, and as such are autboriz d
aid empowered to locate, construct,
oquip and operate railroad, Commenc-
iug for t. main line at some point on
the Potomac river in Alexandria coun-
~, Virginia, opposite the District of Co.
lumbia, and running thence by the most
practicable route TO point on the Pc
iomac river in Fairfax county or Lou
doun county, in the State of Virginia,
with right to locate such branch lines
az the directors may desire.
3. The said company shall have per-
petual succession, and have power to
sue and be sued, plead and be implead-
ed, defend and be defended in all courts,
whether at law or in equity, and may
make bylaws and have 'mmon seal,
and alter or renew the same at pleas
ure, end shall have, possess and enjoy
ali the rights and privileges Of col :
poration or body polite iu the law and
necssssary for the purposes of this act.
8 The capital stock of the said COM
pany shall not be less than thirty thou
saud dollars, aud may from time to
time be increased to any amount not
exceeding three hundred thousand dol
lars, by issue and ale OF shares, pre-.
ferred or common stock, or both, upon
such terms and conditions and under
such regulations as the board of direc
tors of said company shall prescribe,
the shares of which shall not be lo J
than ten dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars each, and the directors
may receive cash, labor, material, bonds,
st )ck. real or personal property in pa :
ment of subscriptions to the capital
stock, at such valuation and at such
prices as may be agreed upon between
the directors and the subscribers, and
shall make such subscriptions payable
10 such manner or amounts and at such
time as may be agreed upon with the su: =
scribers; and whenever one hundred or
mora shares shall have been subscribed,
and the sum OF one thousand dollars
paid in cash, the subscribers under the
direction of any five of the incorpora-
tors hereinbefore named, who them
selves shall be subscribers, may organ
ize the said company by electing q
or iaent and board of directors, and by
electing or providing for the appoint
ment of such other officers as may e
pece ,arv for the control and manage
7neDt of the business and affairs OF SAID
.mpany. and thereupon they snail
nave and exercise all the powers and
functions o. corporation under
their CHARTER and the laws OF this Stale.
q I, shall belawiul for said company
to borrow money and issue and sell its
bonds from time to time, and for such
snms and on such terms as its board or
directors may deem e1pedient and
nrop.r for any of the purposes OF the
company, and it may secure the pay
mani of said bonds by the mortgages or
deed of trust upon all or any portion OF
its property, real or personal, and II
NAV secure the payment OF said bonds
hv the mortgages Or deed OF trust upon
alI or any portion OF its property, rea'
or nersonal and mixed, its contracts
sud privileges and its chartered rights
and lranchises, including its irauchise
to he corporation ; aud it may, as tne
business of the company shall require,
sell, lease, convey and encumoer tue
same. .tho,
cornoration to subscribe to, guarantee
or mold the stock or bonds of the said
t1mpany. :: ,.hor;oad
and empowered to locate, equip, ano
onerate any lateral or braoch railways
or tramways, which a majority OF "s
s,ockbolders may determine to con'
truct. maintain, equip, and operate
and by such routs as may be determin
cd bv its board of directors, and tine
said company may connect or unite its
said road with that of any other com
nanv nan or companies, or consolidate ano
p" Msrse it's stock, property and fran
cbises l with and into those OF any othel
co,nnany or companies operating, OF
suthorjzsd 10 operate q connecting llDs
of railroad in this State, upon suct
Farms and uuder such name as may os
soreed 40 upon between the companies Sc
uniting or connecting, merging or coz,
solidatipg, aud for that purpose powe,
is hereby given to it and sucn o.nel
company or companies to MAKE 81. ,!
csrry out such contracts as will faclii
tats and consummate such connec!iou
merger or consolidation, or any leas'
| or sale; provided. that copy OF eVers
such contract Of any consolidation ahe
~ srcer be fled in the Office OF the boart
ofpublic works.
!. Il shall be lawful for shs company