Chap. 241.—An ACT to Incorporate the Nansemond and Norfolk County
Turnpike Company.

Approved March 26, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That gay
it shall be lawful to open books, under the direction of Marma- wh
duke Cartwright, E. G. Ghio, John R. Kilby, James G. Bain ope
and William G. Parker, and such other person or persons as
any three of the above named persons may appoint, and at
such time and place as they may select, for the purpose of re-
ceiving subscriptions to a joint capital stock, not exceeding cap
in the whole twenty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares
of fifty dollars each, for the purpose of constructing a turn-
pike road from some point at or near the limits of the town of pox
Suffolk, in Nansemond county, passing by Magnolia Springs pik
and Bowers’ Hill, to a point at or near the limits of the city of
Portsmouth, in Norfolk county.
2. When five thousand dollars shall have been subscribed,
the subscribers, their executors, administrators and assigns,
shall be and they are hereby incorporated into a company, by
the name and style of the Nansemond and Norfolk County
Turnpike Company, subject to the general provisions of the
Code of Virginia relating to such companies, except so far as
modified by this act: provided, that the said company shall not
be required to make a summer or side road, nor to cover or
pave the same with gravel or stone; and that the said turn-
pike shall be at least twenty feet wide, but the company may
make it wider at their discretion.

3. The said company shall have the privilege, in making said
road or any part thereof, to use rock, sand, shell, plank or any
other material which to them shall seem most expedient, and
shall, in the construction of the same, be privileged to provide
open ditches on either side of said road. The said company
shall be and they are hereby authorized to erecta gate or gates
across said road at such points as they deem expedient, and
to charge toll as the board of directors may order: provided,
that in no case shall the rate of toll per mile be greater than
one-fifth the fare now charged by the Norfolk county and
Portsmouth ferry; the said tolls to be charged so soon as five
consecutive miles are completed, and received, in compliance
with the general law regulating turnpike companies.

4, The said company, in constructing said turnpike or road,
shall have the right to use the bed of any public road, and
the said company shall have the control of the entire width of
said road so far as they may extend the said turnpike along
the line of the same: provided, that before using or controlling
such public road, they shall give fifteen days’ notice of their in-
tention to apply to the county court of the county in which such
public road may be, by publishing the same at the courthouse of
such county in the usual way and in one or more of the news-
papers of the city of Norfolk; and they shall, after such notice,
apply to said court, which may cause an order granting the
application upon such terms as may, in its judgment, proteask
the public against damage or inconvenience.

5. The said company is hereby authorized to build lateral
or branch roads in any direction not exceeding ten miles each,
with the same privilege as conferred in preceding sections.

6. The said company is hereby authorized to acquire land
by donation or otherwise, and to convey and dispose of the
same: provided, that it shall not at any one time hold more
than one thousand acres.

7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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