Chap. 20.—An ACT to extend, renew and amend the charter of the
City Gas Light Company of Norfolk.

Approved January 18, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the charter of the City Gas Light Company of Norfolk, granted
by the act entitled an act to incorporate the City Gas Light
Company of Norfolk, passed January eleven, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty, be and the same is hercby revised, renewed,
amended and extended for a period of thirty years from and
wter the date of the passage of this present act.

2. That sections one, two and four of tho act first above
recited, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Tazewell Taylor, Frederick W. Southgate, A. T. M.
Cooke, Thomas Newton, Walter H. Taylor, Charles S. Almand,
C. W. Newton, Richard Dickson, G. R. Drummond, William
Selcen, Thomas Bottimore, and W. C. Dickson, and such other
persons as may now and hereafter be associated with them,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body
politic and corporate, under the name and style of the City
Gas Light Company of Norfolk, with full power to construct
or purchase suitable works and machinery, cither in Norfolk
city, or Norfolk county, or both, for the manufacture, distri-
bution and sale of gas, electricity or other material, from
bituminous or other substances, for the purposes of public and
private heating and illumination, and for power, both within
the corporate limits of Norfolk city and without the same in
Norfolk county, adjacent to said city; and for the purpose of
carrying into full effect the works herein provided for, the
said company shall have power to purchase and hold such
real estate, not exceeding twenty acres, located either in the
city or county of Norfolk, or both, as may be necessary for
their works and the proper carrying on of their business; and
they are hereby invested with all the powers conferred, and
subjected to all the provisions prescribed by chapters fifty-six
and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, except in so fur as may be other-
wise provided in this act.

§2. Beitfurther enacted, That the capital stock of the City
Gas Light company of Norfolk, shall not be less than twenty
thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred thousand dollars,
to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be
raised by subscription; for which purpose, if the stock be not
otherwise subscribed, books may be opened under the super-
intendence of Charles S. Allmand, C. W. Newton, Richard
Dickson, William Selden, G. R. Drummond, Thomas Balti-
more, and W. C. Dickson, and such other persons as may be
associated with them, or any two of them in conformity with
the law in such case made and provided.

§4. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall be
authorized to open the streets, avenues, highways, and public
parks and squares of the said city and county, for laying
pipes, planting poles or placing and working such apparatus
as shall be necessary to carry on the business of the said com-
pany: provided, that when the same shall be repaired by the
said company, at its own cost and expense, subject to the
approval of the inspector or engineer of said city, or the
councils thereof: and provided also, that no poles shall be
planted in the streets of the city by the said company, until
the consent of the counsel thereto, shall have been first had
and obtained.

3. This act shall be in force fromh its passage.