CHAP. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1375 of the i of
Virginia. (H. B. 348.)
Approved March. 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirteen hundred and seventy-five of the Code of Vir-
ginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1375. A person, firm or corporation desiring to es-
tablish a ferry across any water course, whether it be a stream
bounding the State or not, who owns, or has contracted for the
use of, land at the point at which it is proposed to establish the
same, may, after publishing notice of his, their, or its intention
at the front door of the court house, and at two or more public
places, in the county, near the point at which it is proposed to
establish the same, for fifteen days preceding the first day of
the term, apply to the circuit court of the county, or one of the
counties, in which it is proposed to establish such ferry, for
leave to establish the same.