Chap. 252.—An ACT to amend thesecond, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
and tenth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk
and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Com-
pany, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth sections of
an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Ports-
mouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Company,
approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be and
the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

\ 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of
one hundred dollars cach, but the same may be increased from
time to time, and issued at such price as the board of direc-
tors may determine.

s4. The said company is hereby authorized to construct
at or near Norfolk or Portsmouth, and at any point on tide-
water, or any of the branches of the Elizabeth, James, or
Nansemond rivers, or Hampton roads, wharves, piers, docks,
basins, warehouses, elevators, and cotton presses, suitable
for the accommodation of steamships, vessels, and boats, and
for the convenient loading, unloading, shipping, receiving,
and storing of all kinds of merchandise aud personal prop-
erty. And said company may conduct a general dock,
warehouse, wharf, and lighterage business, and may acquire,
by lease or purchase, such real and personal estate as it may
deem necessary or convenient for its purposes, and may
build, purchase, or hire lighters, boats, and vessels, and other
appliances used for the business. It may receive on storage
or deposit all kinds of merchandise and property for safe-
keeping, and may conduct any business usually transacted
hy warehousemen, wharfingers, and lightermen, and may
charve and collect compensation for storage, dockage, wharf-
ave, and lighterage, and for all labor incident thereto, includ-
ing the expense of weighing, insuring, keeping, and deliver-
ing such merchandise or personal property at such rates and
on such terms as may be agreed upon between it and its cus-
tomers, or their agents, and for any advances made by it on
merchandise, or property stored or deposited with it, and
tor all its charges, expenses, incident thereto, said company
shall have a preferred lien on said merchandise or property,
which sball be paid before said company can be required to
deliver the same.
§ 5. That for convenience of access to such improvements,
the said company shall also have authority to construct,
equip, and operate one or more railways, with all necessary
sidings and branches, the latter not to exceed twenty miles
in length, from any of said structures to such point or points
of convenient connection with each or any line of railway
passing through or termipating at or near cither Norfolk,

ortsmouth, Suffolk, or Petersburg, as the said company
shall determine, and for that purpose may acquire title in the
mode prescribed by law, to a continuous line of one hundred
feet in width of land, and such additional lands as may be
necessary for the use of said roads and tracks, and for the
buildings and works of said company.

§ 6. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect the railways owned, operated, or controlled
by it with any other line of railway constructed, or which
may be constructed in this state, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between it and such other railroad company,
and for this purpose, power is hereby granted to it, and to
any railroad company incorporated by this state, to make
and carry out such contracts, by lease, purchase, or other-
wise, as will facilitate and consummate such connection or
consolidation.

§ 7. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company, with
which said Norfolk and Portsmouth terminal railway, wharf,
and warehouse company may connect, is hereby authorized
to acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any por-
tion of the capital stock of this company, and this company
may, in like manner, acquire by subscription, purchase, or
otherwise, any pertion of the capital stock of any such rail-
way, steamship, or navigation company.

§ 10. Said Norfolk and Portsmouth terminal railway,
wharf, and warehouse company is hereby authorized to
acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any portion
of the bonds or capital stock of any company organized for
or engaged in the construction or operation of any lines of
railroad or transportation in this state, or in the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana,
or Texas, which may have been or may be hereafter con-
structed. |

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 2(3.—An ACT to divide the city «f Danville into wards.
Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
within thirty days after the passage of this act, the judge of
the hustings court of the town of Danville shall appoint five
commissioners, citizens of the said town, whose duty it shall

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be, within thirty days after their selection and notification,
to lay off the said town of Danville into three wards, to be
numerically designated, the same to be compactly laid off as
to territory, and as nearly equal in voting population as prac-
ticable; and to make report to the judge of the hustings
court with map or diagram showing the boundaries of the
three wards, respectively, and the estimated voting popula-
tion of each, and thereafter, thus laid off, if approved by the
judge of the hustings court, shall be taken and established as
the respective wards of the said town of Danville, for the
purposes of municipal government, municipal and other elec-
tions, and all other like purposes, as hereinafter provided.

2. Immediately after the division of said town into wards,
as provided in the foregoing first section of this act, the
council of said town shall establish for each of said wards
‘one voting place or precinct, and shal] publish the bounda-
ries of said wards and the localities of said voting places or
precincts, and no other voter shall cast his ballot save at the
precinct of the ward wherein he lives: provided, however,
that every person offering to vote shall have been a resident
of the ward in which he offers to vote at least thirty days
next preceding the election at which he offers to vote: and
provided, that when any voter removes from one ward into
another within thirty days of an election, it shall be lawful
for him to vote in the ward from which he removed until he
has acquired the right to vote in the ward to which he
removes: and provided further, that the first election after
the division of said town into wards under the provisions of
this act, each voter shall vote in the ward into which he shall
be so placed or thrown without having resided therein thirty
days.

3. As soon as the ward divisions of said town shall have
been established, as provided in the foregoing first and second
sections of this act, the council of the said town shall give
full information thereof tothe judge of the corporation court
of said town, and thereupon it shall be his duty to appoint
at such time as he may think proper, not less than thirty
days prior to the election to be held in said town, on the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
one registrar for each of said wards, who shall be a resident
of the ward to which he is appointed, and who shall continue
to discharge the duties of said office until his successor is
appointed.

4. Each registrar, so appointed, after legally qualifying,
shall proceed to register the names of all qualified .voters of
his ward, who, according to law, are entitled to registration,
in the mode and manner prescribed by the general laws of
the state of Virginia; and such registration shall be valid for
all elections of said ward or town in all subsequent elections,
subject to such alterations or changes as may be lawfully
made: provided that no registered and qualified voter at the
election in November, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall
be deprived of his right to vote at the first election under
this act by reason of his failure to register at the registration
herein provided for.

5. After the said town of Danville shall have been divided
into three wards, as provided in the foregoing first and second
sections of this act, the council shall apportion the represen-
tation to which each ward is entitled in the council of said
town: provided that such representation shall be in the same
proportion from each ward as to voting population, as is.
twelve councilmen to the voting population of the three
wards; the estimated voting population as provided for in
the foregoing first section of this act being the basis upon
which the apportionment shall be made.

6. After the apportionment of the council to each ward,
as provided in section the fifth, each ward shall, at each
regular election for municipal officers, elect, by the qualified
voters of said ward, the number of councilmen to which said
ward is entitled under said apportionment, and each ward
shall, also, at the same time, and in the same manner as pro-
vided in this section for the election of councilmen, elect one
justice of the peace. Said justice of the peace and council-
men shall, at the time of their election and during the term
of their office, reside within the ward for which they are
elected, and be qualified voters in said ward.

7. All other officers of said town, elective by the people or
qualified voters, shall be elected, as now prescribed, by a
general vote of the town, without regard to wards.

8. All vacancies that may occur in the council shall be
filled by said body; but the appointees shall reside in the
ward where the vancany occurs, and shall be subject to gene-
ral qualifications, as is prescribed for the other members of
said body.

9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 252.—An ACT to amend thesecond, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,
and tenth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk
and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Com-
pany, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth sections of
an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Ports-
mouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Company,
approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be and
the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

\ 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of
one hundred dollars cach, but the same may be increased from
time to time, and issued at such price as the board of direc-
tors may determine.

s4. The said company is hereby authorized to construct
at or near Norfolk or Portsmouth, and at any point on tide-
water, or any of the branches of the Elizabeth, James, or
Nansemond rivers, or Hampton roads, wharves, piers, docks,
basins, warehouses, elevators, and cotton presses, suitable
for the accommodation of steamships, vessels, and boats, and
for the convenient loading, unloading, shipping, receiving,
and storing of all kinds of merchandise aud personal prop-
erty. And said company may conduct a general dock,
warehouse, wharf, and lighterage business, and may acquire,
by lease or purchase, such real and personal estate as it may
deem necessary or convenient for its purposes, and may
build, purchase, or hire lighters, boats, and vessels, and other
appliances used for the business. It may receive on storage
or deposit all kinds of merchandise and property for safe-
keeping, and may conduct any business usually transacted
hy warehousemen, wharfingers, and lightermen, and may
charve and collect compensation for storage, dockage, wharf-
ave, and lighterage, and for all labor incident thereto, includ-
ing the expense of weighing, insuring, keeping, and deliver-
ing such merchandise or personal property at such rates and
on such terms as may be agreed upon between it and its cus-
tomers, or their agents, and for any advances made by it on
merchandise, or property stored or deposited with it, and
tor all its charges, expenses, incident thereto, said company
shall have a preferred lien on said merchandise or property,
which sball be paid before said company can be required to
deliver the same.
§ 5. That for convenience of access to such improvements,
the said company shall also have authority to construct,
equip, and operate one or more railways, with all necessary
sidings and branches, the latter not to exceed twenty miles
in length, from any of said structures to such point or points
of convenient connection with each or any line of railway
passing through or termipating at or near cither Norfolk,

ortsmouth, Suffolk, or Petersburg, as the said company
shall determine, and for that purpose may acquire title in the
mode prescribed by law, to a continuous line of one hundred
feet in width of land, and such additional lands as may be
necessary for the use of said roads and tracks, and for the
buildings and works of said company.

§ 6. The said company shall have power to unite, consoli-
date, or connect the railways owned, operated, or controlled
by it with any other line of railway constructed, or which
may be constructed in this state, upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between it and such other railroad company,
and for this purpose, power is hereby granted to it, and to
any railroad company incorporated by this state, to make
and carry out such contracts, by lease, purchase, or other-
wise, as will facilitate and consummate such connection or
consolidation.

§ 7. Any railway, steamship, or navigation company, with
which said Norfolk and Portsmouth terminal railway, wharf,
and warehouse company may connect, is hereby authorized
to acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any por-
tion of the capital stock of this company, and this company
may, in like manner, acquire by subscription, purchase, or
otherwise, any pertion of the capital stock of any such rail-
way, steamship, or navigation company.

§ 10. Said Norfolk and Portsmouth terminal railway,
wharf, and warehouse company is hereby authorized to
acquire by subscription, purchase, or otherwise, any portion
of the bonds or capital stock of any company organized for
or engaged in the construction or operation of any lines of
railroad or transportation in this state, or in the states of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana,
or Texas, which may have been or may be hereafter con-
structed. |

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 2(3.—An ACT to divide the city «f Danville into wards.
Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
within thirty days after the passage of this act, the judge of
the hustings court of the town of Danville shall appoint five
commissioners, citizens of the said town, whose duty it shall

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be, within thirty days after their selection and notification,
to lay off the said town of Danville into three wards, to be
numerically designated, the same to be compactly laid off as
to territory, and as nearly equal in voting population as prac-
ticable; and to make report to the judge of the hustings
court with map or diagram showing the boundaries of the
three wards, respectively, and the estimated voting popula-
tion of each, and thereafter, thus laid off, if approved by the
judge of the hustings court, shall be taken and established as
the respective wards of the said town of Danville, for the
purposes of municipal government, municipal and other elec-
tions, and all other like purposes, as hereinafter provided.

2. Immediately after the division of said town into wards,
as provided in the foregoing first section of this act, the
council of said town shall establish for each of said wards
‘one voting place or precinct, and shal] publish the bounda-
ries of said wards and the localities of said voting places or
precincts, and no other voter shall cast his ballot save at the
precinct of the ward wherein he lives: provided, however,
that every person offering to vote shall have been a resident
of the ward in which he offers to vote at least thirty days
next preceding the election at which he offers to vote: and
provided, that when any voter removes from one ward into
another within thirty days of an election, it shall be lawful
for him to vote in the ward from which he removed until he
has acquired the right to vote in the ward to which he
removes: and provided further, that the first election after
the division of said town into wards under the provisions of
this act, each voter shall vote in the ward into which he shall
be so placed or thrown without having resided therein thirty
days.

3. As soon as the ward divisions of said town shall have
been established, as provided in the foregoing first and second
sections of this act, the council of the said town shall give
full information thereof tothe judge of the corporation court
of said town, and thereupon it shall be his duty to appoint
at such time as he may think proper, not less than thirty
days prior to the election to be held in said town, on the
fourth Thursday in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
one registrar for each of said wards, who shall be a resident
of the ward to which he is appointed, and who shall continue
to discharge the duties of said office until his successor is
appointed.

4. Each registrar, so appointed, after legally qualifying,
shall proceed to register the names of all qualified .voters of
his ward, who, according to law, are entitled to registration,
in the mode and manner prescribed by the general laws of
the state of Virginia; and such registration shall be valid for
all elections of said ward or town in all subsequent elections,
subject to such alterations or changes as may be lawfully
made: provided that no registered and qualified voter at the
election in November, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, shall
be deprived of his right to vote at the first election under
this act by reason of his failure to register at the registration
herein provided for.

5. After the said town of Danville shall have been divided
into three wards, as provided in the foregoing first and second
sections of this act, the council shall apportion the represen-
tation to which each ward is entitled in the council of said
town: provided that such representation shall be in the same
proportion from each ward as to voting population, as is.
twelve councilmen to the voting population of the three
wards; the estimated voting population as provided for in
the foregoing first section of this act being the basis upon
which the apportionment shall be made.

6. After the apportionment of the council to each ward,
as provided in section the fifth, each ward shall, at each
regular election for municipal officers, elect, by the qualified
voters of said ward, the number of councilmen to which said
ward is entitled under said apportionment, and each ward
shall, also, at the same time, and in the same manner as pro-
vided in this section for the election of councilmen, elect one
justice of the peace. Said justice of the peace and council-
men shall, at the time of their election and during the term
of their office, reside within the ward for which they are
elected, and be qualified voters in said ward.

7. All other officers of said town, elective by the people or
qualified voters, shall be elected, as now prescribed, by a
general vote of the town, without regard to wards.

8. All vacancies that may occur in the council shall be
filled by said body; but the appointees shall reside in the
ward where the vancany occurs, and shall be subject to gene-
ral qualifications, as is prescribed for the other members of
said body.

9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage.