Chap. 189,—An ACT to Incorporate the Eastern Branch Turnpike and
Toll Bridge Company.

Approved March 14, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John B. Whitehead, Frederick Wilson, William 8. Butt, M.
B. Halstead, F. Richardson, Marshall Parks, C. W. Murdaugh,
EK. C. Robinson, and W. H. C. Lovitt, be and are hereby made
a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the
Eastern Branch Turnpike and Toll Bridge Company, with full
and adequate powers to construct a turnpike road from some
point in the city of Norfolk, through the lands of the late
George Bramble, on the nor th side, and through the lands of
Frederick Wilson or the late John Hodges, on the sonth side
of said branch, to a point on the Great Bridge road at or near
“Deep Branch,’ in the county of Norfolk: provided, that the
bridge hereby authorized to be built across the eastern branch
of the Elizabeth shall be constructed with a suitable draw not
less than twenty-six feet wide in the clear, and subject to the
provisions of the general laws of the connnonwealth applicable
to such a corporation: and provided further, that the said
turnpike road shall not be less than thirty nor more than sixty
feet in width.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
ten thousand nor more than fifty thousand dollars, to be
divided into shares of fifty dollars each, and books of sub-
scription may be opened in the city of Norfolk, under the
supervision of any three of the above named corporators, and
when the minimum stock shall have been subscribed, and ten
per cent. thereon shall have been paid, the said corporators
may proceed to organize the company as 1s provided by law.

3. The tolls to be charged for passing over said road and
bridge shall be regulated by the company, but shall not exceed
the tolls now charged on other bridges over the branches of
the Elizabeth river.

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