Chap. 444.—An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to straighten
its road.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That authority
is hereby given to the Petersburg railroad company to change the location
of any part of the line of its railroad between its present termini in
order to straighten or improve the same wherever such change may be
considered desirable by its board of directors, so as to shorten the dis-
tance between its termini; and proceedings may be had to ascertain what
will be a just compensation for the lands upon any such new location,
and the work may be constructed upon or through the same, and the
title to such lands obtained in like manner as if it were the first loca-
tion: provided, that such new line shall be located at no greater distance
than one mile from any station already established on said road, and at
no greater distance than two miles from the corresponding point of the
old line of said road.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.