Chap. 217.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 1st section of an act
passed February 3d, 1865, entitled an act to incorporate the Elizabeth
River Railroad Company.

Passed February 19, 1867.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of the act passed February third, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, entitled an act to incorporate the
Elizabeth river railroad company, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

“$1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That R. E. Nash, William H. Lockwood, Robert Ballance,
Bartle Sykes and William G. Webber, and such other per-
sons as they may hereafter associate with them for the pur-
pose, be and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic,
under the name and style of The Elizabeth River Railroad
Company, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from a
point at or near Kane’s landing, on the Elizabeth river, to a
point on the North Carolina line, to be determined by the
stockholders in general meeting assembled. The said com-
pany shall have power to sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded; to make, have and use a common seal, and to
have and enjoy all the rights and privileges conterred, and
be subject to all the regulations and restrictions imposed
upon internal improvement companies by the fifty-seventh
and sixty-first chapters of the Code of Virginia. But the
said dompany may use wooden or iron rails on said road, as
they may prefer.” 7 :

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