Chap. 311.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Tidewater and West Virginia railroad company, ap-
proved March 3, 1900.

Approved February 16, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the ‘Tidewater and West Virginia
railroad company, approved March third, nineteen hundred, be, and the
same hereby is, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W. IL
Hall, F. B. Woodruff, George U. Holman, George H. Pierce, George C.
Cressy, and such other persons as they may associate with them, and their
successors or assigns be, and they are, hereby made and constituted a
body, politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Tidewater and
West Virginia railroad company, and shall have all powers, rights and
franchises necessary for the purpose of locating, constructing, equipping,
maintaining and operating, by steam, electricity or other motive power,
a railroad, with such number of tracks as they may desire, from any
point in the counties of Highland, Augusta, Rockingham, Shenandoah
or Frederick to any point on the Chesapeake bay or its estuaries between
the York and Potomac rivers, or on York river, or to any point on the
south side of the James river, by such route as the board of directors of
said company may determine: provided, that the said railroad shall at
no time parallel the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad,
either by its main line or its branches.

2. This amendment shall be in force from and after its passage.