CHAP. 29.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to define the
limits of tide-water on the south side of James river, approved
March 14, 1878.

Approved January 14, 1879.

Whereas certain of the acts of assembly arc in force, and
declared to apply to “tide-water” only, and certain others
“above tide-water” only, without any more specific designa-
tion of the limits of the territory to which they shall apply;
and whereas on the south side of James river it is found to be
expedient to define the linits of “tide-water” ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section one
of an act entitled an act to define the limits of tide-water on
the south side of James river, approved March fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. De it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
on the south side of James river, the counties of Princess
Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Surry, Southamp-
ton, Sussex, Greensville, and Prince George; the cities of
Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Petersburg, and so much of the
county of Chesterfield as lies east of a line drawn from the
south end of Mayo's bridge, on James river, to the road-bed of
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad, and thence along said
road-bed to the northern abutment of Pocahontas bridee over
the Appomattox river, and so much of said county of Chester-
field as lies south of the line drawn from the northern abut-
ment of said Pocahontas bridge to the northern end of the
dam across said Appomattox river, at the point known as Mur-
ray’s old mill-site, shall, for the purpose of construing said
acts, be taken and held to lie in “ tide-water.”

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