Chap. 199.—An ACT to Incorporate the Suffolk Lumber Company.

Approved March 20, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
John R. Kilby, J. W. Perry, L. R. Kilby, and such others as.
may be associated with them, shall be and are hereby incor-
porated and made a body corporate and politic, under the
name and style of the Suffolk Lumber Company, for the pur-
pose of dealing in lumber, timber and wood, and manufactur-
ing the same; and to build a tram way from some point on
Nansemond river, at or near Suffolk, towards the North Car-
olina state line.

2. The capital stock of said company shall be not less than.
five thousand dollars, nor more than twenty thousand dollars,
in shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. The said company shall have power to purchase timber,
lumber and wood, and to cut and manufacture the same; erect
saw mills and work the same; build boats or vessels, or charter
the same, for the shipment. of their lumber and wood, and to
build a tram way as stated above, and to purchase and use on
the same such steam locomotives or other power as the said
company may prefer.

4, That such tram way may occupy such part of any county
road as the court of Nansemond county may, under the law,
allow; and may condemn a right of way for said tram road, in
the same manner as railroads may do, and may cross any rail-
road, in order to get to navigable water, in the same manner
now allowed to railroad, turnpike and canal companies, under
section twenty-four of chapter fifty-six of the Code of Virginia
(edition of eighteen hundred and sixty.)

5. That the said company is hereby invested with all the
rights, privileges and powers conferred, and made subject to
all the rules, restrictions and regulations imposed, by the fifty-
sixth and fifty-seventh chapters of the Code of Virginia (edi-
tion of eighteen hundred and sixty), so far as the same are
applicable to and not inconsistent with this act.

6. The said company shall have power to purchase or rent
a landing, and land enough for a depot, on Nansemond river,
not exceeding three acres, to erect suitable wharves for their
business, and may own land for the necessary uses of said
company and to get lumber and wood from, not exceeding one
thousand acres at any one time, and may re-sell the same at
their pleasure.

7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.