Chap. 199.—An ACT to incorporate the West-End’ water company.

Approved February 23, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Julius Liebert, Walter 8S. Phillips, C. L. Wright, J. H. Andrews,
and J. D. Bass, all of the state of Virginia, and such others
as they may associate with them, and their successors, are
hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the
name and style of the West-End water company; and by
that name may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted
with, plead and be impleaded in all proper courts and places,
have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and
make all necessary by-laws and regulations for the govern-
ment of said company, not inconsistent with the laws of the
state of Virginia and the laws of the United States.

2. The purposes and objects for which said company is
incorporated, and which it is authorized to effect, are the
construction, on any plan that may be approved, of reser-
voirs, cisterns, force pumps, engines, and any and all fixtures,
appliances, and appurtenances necessary therefor, and the
laying of pipes, main and lateral, necessary for the purpose
of conveying, supplying, and furnishing water for manufac-
turing, drinking, or other purposes, from Fleet’s Hill, in Ches-
terfield county, Virginia, or such other points in said county
as may be deemed most suitable and convenient to the city
of Petersburg, Virginia, or to such other points or places as
said company may desire to convey, supply, or furnish water
to; and for these purposes said company shall have all the
grants, rights, privileges, and franchises necessary to carry
into effect the purposes, objects, and intents of said company.

3. Said company may acquire, hold, and possess such real
estate as may be requisite and necessary for the purpose of
carrying out its purposes, not exceeding twenty-five acres;
may receive and hold in fee simple or otherwise, lands and
tenements, estates, personal and all other property, by deed
of conveyance, lease, or otherwise, and dispose of the same,
or any part thereof, when deemed necessary to promote the
objects and designs of the company.

4. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than three thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand
dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

5. There shall be a meeting of said company at such time
and place, after the passage of this act, as the persons above-

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named, or a majority of them shall appoint, for tae purpose
of choosing a board of directors and other officers as the
by-laws Te by them may prescribe.

6. It shall be lawful for said company to sell and dispose
of its water to the city of Petersburg, to the inhabitants
thereof, to other corporations or persons, for such time, in
such manner, and at such rates as it shall deem fit for the
benefit of said company, and as may be agreed upon by the
contracting parties.

7. The hasiness of the company shall be conducted and
managed by a board of directors and president, to be chosen
in such manner, and to consist of such a number, and to
hold office for such periods of time as may be prescribed in
the by-laws of the company, and the directors, or a majority
of them, shall have power to make by-laws and rules for the
government of the company, and to alter and amend them
when necessary, to appoint such officers, and define their
duties, and to do all other acts and things necessary for the
purpose of the company.

8. The principal office of the company shall be at their
main works, or at such place in the state of Virginia as the
directors shall or may think advantageous to the interests
and purposes of said company.

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