Chap. 93.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed Febr ruary 21,
1866, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 17, of Chapter 64.
of the Code (edition of 1860), in relation to Ferries.

Passed January 21, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act to amend and re-enact the seventeenth section of
chapter sixty-four of the Code, (edition of eighteen hundred
and sixty), be amended and re- -enacted 80 as to read as fol-
lows:

““§ 17. No order shall be made granting leave to establish
a ferry, or certifying such opinion as to the convenience
thereof, or for increasing the rates, unless, under an order
made at a previous term, the acting justices of the county
shall have been summoned to consider the matter. The
several county courts of the counties of Russell and Wise
und Washington and’ Scott and Lee, may have and exercise
he power and authority to establish and control the ferries
within their respective counties, without thie preliminaries of
laving the justices previously. summoned for that purpose.”

2. ‘This act shall be in.torce from its passage.