Chap. 55.—An ACT to Incorporate The Atlantic Bridge Company.
Approved February 20, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
I. Carey Weston, R. H. Chamberlaine, Marshall Parks, B. F.
Tebault, H. E. Culpeper, and their associates, successors and
assigns, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic
and corporate, by the name and style of The Atlantic Bridge
Conipany, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a’
bridge from the west end of York street, in the city of Nor-
folk, to the village of Atlantic City, in the county of Nor-
folk. The said company shall have all the rights, powers
and privileges conferred, and be subject to all the laws im-
posed by the Code of Virginia: provided, that the capital
stock of said company shall not be more than five thousand
dollars, divided into shares of ten dollars each: and provided
farther, that navigation shall not be impeded by the said
company: provided, that all children resident in Atlantic
City and attending school in Norfolk city may, in going to
and from school, pass the said bridge free of toll; that the rate
of toll, required from foot passengers shall not exceed one
cent for each passenger, and that the rights of the company
in the said bridge shall cease and determine, and the said
bridge become free of toll at any time from and and after three
years after the passage of this act whenever the city of Nor-
folk and the county of Norfolk, or either of them, shall pay
to the said company the value of the said bridge, to be as-
certained by the award and determination of appraisers, one
of whom shall be selected by the said company, and the
other shall be selected by said city and county, if they shall
concur in making a joint payment, or by the said city, or by
the said county, if either of them shall determine to make
such payment without the concurrence of the other.
2. iis act shall be in force from its passage.