Chap. 262.—An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and Pinner’s Point
bridge company.

Approved February 8, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That R. L.
McMurran and R. C. Marshall, of the city of Portsmouth, and R. H.
Norfleet, John T. Griffin and Henry Kirn, of Norfolk county, their
associates, successors, and assigns, be, and are hereby, created and con-
stituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of Portsmouth and
Pinner’s Point bridge company, with full and adequate powers to build,
construct, own, and operate a bridge or bridges across Scott’s creck
and arms thereof, the said Scott’s creek being a “branch of the Elizabeth
river, in some point in the fifth ward of the city of Portsmouth, or near
thereto, to some point in Norfolk county at or near the village known
as Pinner’s Point, and to acquire and hold by purchase, condemnation,
or otherwise, so much land as mav be necessary for the construction
and oper ration of said brid ves and the approaches thereto, and all land
necessary to connect said bridges not to exceed forty feet in width from
some point in the fifth ward or near thereto, to the village known as
Pinner’s Point: provided, however, that the bridges hereby authorized
to be built shall be constructed with suitable draw or draws when nec-
essary or in such a manner as not to interfere with navigation or the
passage of vessels.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than five thou-
sand dollars (85,000) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000),
divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. The above named in-
corporators, or any three of them, are hereby created a commission and
authorized to receive subscriptions to the stock of said company in
such manner as they mav deem necessary and to keep the same open
until the minimum capital has been subscribed. Thereafter they may
call a meeting of the stockholders who mav organize the company. As
soon as the bridge or bridges is or are completed, the said company
may demand and receive such reasonable tolls as may be prescribed by
its bv-laws, not exceeding, however, the present rate of tolls charged by
the Norfolk county ferries.

3. The said bridge or bridges mav be used for highways or for cars
to be operated by horse-power, electricity, or any other motive power,
or for both purposes.

4, It shall be lawful for the company to consolidate and make traffic
and passenger rates with any railway company or other corporation now
existing or hereafter incorporated and to lease or sell its property to any
other corporation or to any other person or persons, and the company
is authorized to borrow monev and issue bonds therefor in such an
amount or amounts as may be deemed necessary, and issue bonds there-
for secured by a decd or deeds of trust upon its property and fran-
chises.

5. Provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall be
construed as authorizing the company hereby incorporated, its succes-
sors or assigns, to construct its bridges or works, or any part thereof,
on anv of the property of the Norfolk and Carolina railroad company
or of the southern railway company, or to acquire by condemnation
any property of either the said Norfolk and Carolina railroad company
or of the southern railway company, or in any way to interfere with anv
bridge or ferry that is now or mav hereafter be established across Scott’s
creek, between any two parts of the propertv of the Norfolk and Caro-
lina railroad company; but nothing contained in this proviso is intended
to or shall deprive the companv hereby incorporated, its successors or

assigns, of the provisions of section ten hundred and ninety-four of the
code of Virginia, as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and
re-enact section ten hundred and ninety-four of the code of Virginia in
relation to one road or cana] crossing another road,” approved Februarv
ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or any other amendment that
may hereafter be made thereof.

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