Chap. 257.—An ACT to require the owner or owners of steamboat wharves to
provide thereat suitable accommodations for the patrons of steamboats using
the same.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the owner
or owners of any steamboat wharf— —

(1) Be, and they are hereby, required to provide at their wharves suit-
able accommodations for the patrons of the steamboats using said
wharves.

(2) That the said accommodation shall consist of separate and non-
communicating rooms for the white and colored races, and that said
rooms shall be properly lighted and heated from one-half hour before the
scheduled arrival of the boat and until such time after the departure
thereof as will provide for the accommodation of passengers leaving said
boat: provided, however, the provisions of this act shall not apply to those
wharves at which steamers arrive and depart between seven o’clock in the
morning and seven o’clock in the evening, at which there’ are public
houses open for the public, and at which the public are comfortably cared
for while waiting for said: boats.

(3) Any owner or owners of wharves aforesaid who fail to comply
with any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five nor
more than twenty dollars for each offence: provided, further, that this
act shall not apply to any wharf where no wharfage is charged.