Chap. 268.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of an Act
Supplemental to an .Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of
Portsmouth, Passed 18th March, 1858, and to Provide for the Disposi-
tion of the Common Property of the County of Norfolk and City of
Portsmouth, Passed March 25th 1858.

Approved March 21, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the third section of the act passed twenty-fifth March, eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, entitled an act supplemental to an act
passed the first day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight,
be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 8. The ferries which now ply by authority of law between
the said city of Portsmouth and the city of Norfolk, known as
Norfolk county ferries, shall continue to run as now authorized
by law, and shall be the joint and equal property of snid city
and county. They shall be regulated by a committee of six,
three of whom shall be appointed by the court of said county,
and three by the judge of the hustings court of said city: pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall render null and void
or vitiate any arrangement heretofore made by which said fer-
ries have been leased or rented out, and the profits of whieh
shall accrue equally to said county and city.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.