Chap. 383.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate
Tanner's Creek drawbridge company.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to incorporate Tanner’s Creek drawbridge company, and for
other purposes, passed February seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, as amended by chapter two hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of
the general assembly of Virginia, passed in eighteen hundred and sixty-
five and eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby,
amended by embodying an additional section therein, to follow immedi-
ately after section two, to be known as section two, a, and to read
follows:

§2,a. After the said company has been organized it is hereby autho-
rized to increase its capital stock, from time to time, upon a vote of the
majority of the stock present at any stockholders’ meeting, to an amvuunt
not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.

And the said company is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or
condemnation, according to law, and to hold all land necessary for the
purposes of its incorporation; to widen its present road where necessary,
not to exceed sixty feet in width, and to construct, establish and main-
tain a turnpike not exceeding sixty feet in width, to extend and continue
northwardly from the northern terminus of its present toll road to a
point at or near Ocean View, in the county of Norfolk, Virginia, and to
establish and maintain toll-gates, stations, and to collect tolls and
charges thereon, according to law; and also to scll or leasc along its
turnpike, a right of way to any company or companies, for the opera-
tion of an electric railroad, a bicycle path, or other similar enterprise;
and the said company is hereby authorized to issue its bonds, and sccure
the same by deed of trust or mortgage upon its property and franchise.

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