An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1901es |
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Law Number | 302 |
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Chap. 302.—An ACT to provide a method by which moneys appropriated by
the’ board of supervisors of Rockingham county, upon the order of the
county court of said county, for opening new roads and building bridges
in said county shall be paid by the county treasurer.
Approved February 16, 1901.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in the
county of Rockingham all moneys appropriated upon the order of the
county court of said county for the purpose of changing or opening new
roads or building bridges or any expense pertaining “thereto shall be
paid only when the appropriation contained in such order shall be ap-
proved by the board of supervisors of said county in the manner now
provided by law, and the treasurer of said county shall pay the amounts
allowed in said order only upon warrants ordered by the board of super-
visors, signed by the chairman and clerk of said board.
2. When any order has been made by the county court of said county
for changing or opening any new road or building or rebuilding any
bridge, and the allowance made in said order have been approved by the
board of supervisors in the manner provided by law, it shall be the duty
of the clerk of said court to enter said order in a book to he provided by
the board of supervisors for said purpose, said book to be known as the
“road and bridge book.”
3. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to have prepared a
book of warrants with suitable stubs, known as “road and bridge war-
rants.” When an appropriation has been made by the board of super-
visors in pursuance of the order of the county court of said county for
any of the purposes heretofore enumerated in this act, warrants shall be
ixsned to those entitled thereto. If the appropriation is payable in in-
stalments, then a separate warrant shall be issued for each instalment of
said appropriation, and the warrant shall set forth on its face the time
at which said warrant is payable by the treasurer.
t. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 303—An ACT to permit the Portsmouth and Cornland telephone com-
pany to extend and operate a telephone and telegraph line from Deep
Creek, etc.
Approved February 16, 1901.
Whereas on the fourteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, the circuit court of Norfolk county, Virginia, did grant unto
the Portsmouth and Cornland telephone company a charter of incorpo-
ration, with full power and authority to build, establish, construct, own,
maintain and operate a telephone system or systems in the states of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina, and generally to conduct a telephone business
in said states, or either of them, with any and all lawful powers necassary
or useful in the effectual carrving out of the purpose for which it is
chartered; and
Whereas, pursuant to the power vested in it, the said Portsmouth and
Cornland telephone company has constructed and is now operating a
telephone system in the county of Norfolk; and
Whereas the said company is desirous of extending and operating a
telephone and telegraph line from Deep creck, in the county of Norfolk.
to the North Carolina line, and of acquiring the necessary right of way
for the same; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the Ports-
mouth and Cornland telephone company be, and it is, hereby authorized
to construct and equip a telephone and telegraph line from Deep creck,
in the county of Norfolk, in a southerly direction, to the North Carolina
line; and it is further authorized and empowered in locating its said line
to contract and agree with the Lake Drummond canal and water com-
pany for a right of way for its poles and wires along the outer edge of
the eastern canal bank, belonging to said Lake Drummond cana: and
water company, in the county of Norfolk; and in case of disagreement as
to the amount to be paid to said Lake Drummond canal and water com-
pany for said right of way, the said Portsmouth and Cornland telephone
company shall have the right to condemn said right of way, in the man-
ner prescribed by the forty-sixth chapter of the code of Virginia, edition
of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.