Chap. 224.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2052 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the public free ferry across the Corotoman
river, in the county of Lancaster. [H B 216]

Approved March 23, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2052. The public free ferry across the Corotoman river, in
the county of Lancaster, authorized by the act of the twelfth of March,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be established and kept ac-
cording to the said act, except as in this section provided, that is to
say: The circuit court of Lancaster may, in its discretion, have the
contract for keeping the same let to the lowest bidder for the period
of five years, and the bonds thereby directed shall be to the county of
Lancaster instead of the justices thereof. Furthermore, the said ferry
shall hereafter cross from Merry Point to the upper side of the wharf
and canning factory at Ottoman wharf; provided, that, the circuit
court of said county shall have the right, upon the application of the
board of supervisors, to discontinue said ferry if it shall be made to ap-
pear that public necessity therefor no longer exists. No such application
shall be made unless and until notice thereof, to whom it may concern,
be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in some
newspaper published in said county, or having general circulation
therein, and by posting copies of said notice at the front door of the
court house of the county and at both landings of said ferry, said no-
tice to be so posted, and the first publication thereof made, at least
thirty days before the day on which said application will be made to
the court.