Chap. 123.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act
to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company,
and to change the name of the said company.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Vir-
ginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company, approved
February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be
amended and re-enacted go as to read as follows:

§ 3. That Green B. Board, John J. Moorman, D. B. Strouse,
Reese L. Bowen, T. J. Higginbotham, Joseph ‘Stras, William
H. Burns, C. A. Smith, G. C. Gose, James H. Dickinson,
Thomas W. Davis, Samuel H. Newberry, Samuel W. Wil-
liams, Charles Payne, William Eggleston, M. P. Farrier, M.
P. Spessard, Andrew McCartney, Francis T. Sorrel, John
Trout, David S. Read, James Chalmers, Edward McMahan,
J. Allen Watts, H. A. Edmundson, Charles W. Burnell, Wil-
liam R. Beale, F. J. Chapman, M. W. Pettigrew, R. H. Lo-
gan, and Joel C. Green, or such of them as may accept the
provisions of this act, and such other persons and corpora-
tions as may become associated with them, in the manner
hereinafter provided, shall be and they are hereby constituted
a body politic and corporate, by the name of The Virginia
Iron Trunk Railroad Company, and by that name shall have
all the powers, rights, and franchises necessary and proper,
to create, constitute, equip, and maintain a railroad, to be
known as the Virginia Iron Trunk railroad; beginning at or
near the mouth of Catawba, or at or near the mouth of
Craig’s creek, in the county of Botetourt, and to be run by
such route as the said company may deem most expedient,
through the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Bland, Taze-
well, and Russell, passing near Bickley’s mills, on the Salt-
ville and Coal-mine railroad in said county of Russell, and
thence down Clinch river, or through Big Moccasin gap, in
the county of Scott, to some point on the line of the state of
Tennessee; and the said company shall have power to extend
the construction of its road and operate the same to a point
at or near Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge, and the
said company shall have power to build any branch roads
which may be necessary to reach valuable mineral, gypsum,
or coal deposits, 80 that no such branch road shall exceed ten
miles in length, and to purchase and hold mineral lands, and
to work the same, in order to furnish tonnage for the road.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 123.—An ACT to authorize D. M. Norton, Joshua Robert Ross,
Robert Norton, John 8. Jones, and Zebedee Randall, of the county
of York, to establish a ferry across York river, from a point at or
near Yorktown to a point on the opposite shore, ator near Gloucester
Point.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for D. M. Norton, Joshua Ross, Robert Norton, John
8. Jones, and Zebedee Randall, of the county of York, to
establish and keep a ferry across the York river, from some
point at or near Yorktown, in said county of York, to some
convenient point on the opposite shore, at or near Gloucester
point, in the county of Gloucester: provided that the said D.

Norton, Joshua Ross, Robert Norton, John S. Jones, and
Zebedee Randall shall within six months from the date of
the passage of this act, provide and have in readiness for use
at the ferry, at least one boat of dimensions sufficient for the
transportation of any ordinary vehicle, and shall have in
readiness hands sufficient for the proper and safe manage-
ment of such boat.

2. Unless the county courts of the said counties shall,
after due proceedings in said courts, fix other rates of ferri-
age, the rates of ferriage at said ferry shall be as follows, to-
wit: For every person, twenty-five cents; for every horse,
twenty-five cents; for every jack, twenty-five cents; for
every work-ox, twenty-five cents; for every head of neat
cattle, twenty-five cents; for every sheep, ten cents; for
every hog, ten cents; for every goat, ten cents; for every
vehicle, twenty-five cents for each wheel thereof.

3. The ferry hereby authorized to be established, shall be
subject to all the rules, regulations, conditions, and penalties
prescribed by general statutes now in force or hereafter
enacted, governing ferries established under the provisions
of chapter sixty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three; and the proprietors of such ferry shall be
entitled to all of the rights, privileges, and remedies given as
such under said statutes, and for all purposes the said ferry
shall be deemed to have been established under the provi-
sions of said chapter of said Code: provided, however, that
the franchise hereby granted, shall also, at all times, be sub-
ject to the control of the general assembly, and may at any
time be revoked by it.

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

Chap. 123.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act
to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company,
and to change the name of the said company.

Approved February 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the first
section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Vir-
ginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company, approved
February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be
amended and re-enacted go as to read as follows:

§ 3. That Green B. Board, John J. Moorman, D. B. Strouse,
Reese L. Bowen, T. J. Higginbotham, Joseph ‘Stras, William
H. Burns, C. A. Smith, G. C. Gose, James H. Dickinson,
Thomas W. Davis, Samuel H. Newberry, Samuel W. Wil-
liams, Charles Payne, William Eggleston, M. P. Farrier, M.
P. Spessard, Andrew McCartney, Francis T. Sorrel, John
Trout, David S. Read, James Chalmers, Edward McMahan,
J. Allen Watts, H. A. Edmundson, Charles W. Burnell, Wil-
liam R. Beale, F. J. Chapman, M. W. Pettigrew, R. H. Lo-
gan, and Joel C. Green, or such of them as may accept the
provisions of this act, and such other persons and corpora-
tions as may become associated with them, in the manner
hereinafter provided, shall be and they are hereby constituted
a body politic and corporate, by the name of The Virginia
Iron Trunk Railroad Company, and by that name shall have
all the powers, rights, and franchises necessary and proper,
to create, constitute, equip, and maintain a railroad, to be
known as the Virginia Iron Trunk railroad; beginning at or
near the mouth of Catawba, or at or near the mouth of
Craig’s creek, in the county of Botetourt, and to be run by
such route as the said company may deem most expedient,
through the counties of Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Bland, Taze-
well, and Russell, passing near Bickley’s mills, on the Salt-
ville and Coal-mine railroad in said county of Russell, and
thence down Clinch river, or through Big Moccasin gap, in
the county of Scott, to some point on the line of the state of
Tennessee; and the said company shall have power to extend
the construction of its road and operate the same to a point
at or near Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge, and the
said company shall have power to build any branch roads
which may be necessary to reach valuable mineral, gypsum,
or coal deposits, 80 that no such branch road shall exceed ten
miles in length, and to purchase and hold mineral lands, and
to work the same, in order to furnish tonnage for the road.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 123.—An ACT to authorize D. M. Norton, Joshua Robert Ross,
Robert Norton, John 8. Jones, and Zebedee Randall, of the county
of York, to establish a ferry across York river, from a point at or
near Yorktown to a point on the opposite shore, ator near Gloucester
Point.

Approved April 22, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for D. M. Norton, Joshua Ross, Robert Norton, John
8. Jones, and Zebedee Randall, of the county of York, to
establish and keep a ferry across the York river, from some
point at or near Yorktown, in said county of York, to some
convenient point on the opposite shore, at or near Gloucester
point, in the county of Gloucester: provided that the said D.

Norton, Joshua Ross, Robert Norton, John S. Jones, and
Zebedee Randall shall within six months from the date of
the passage of this act, provide and have in readiness for use
at the ferry, at least one boat of dimensions sufficient for the
transportation of any ordinary vehicle, and shall have in
readiness hands sufficient for the proper and safe manage-
ment of such boat.

2. Unless the county courts of the said counties shall,
after due proceedings in said courts, fix other rates of ferri-
age, the rates of ferriage at said ferry shall be as follows, to-
wit: For every person, twenty-five cents; for every horse,
twenty-five cents; for every jack, twenty-five cents; for
every work-ox, twenty-five cents; for every head of neat
cattle, twenty-five cents; for every sheep, ten cents; for
every hog, ten cents; for every goat, ten cents; for every
vehicle, twenty-five cents for each wheel thereof.

3. The ferry hereby authorized to be established, shall be
subject to all the rules, regulations, conditions, and penalties
prescribed by general statutes now in force or hereafter
enacted, governing ferries established under the provisions
of chapter sixty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three; and the proprietors of such ferry shall be
entitled to all of the rights, privileges, and remedies given as
such under said statutes, and for all purposes the said ferry
shall be deemed to have been established under the provi-
sions of said chapter of said Code: provided, however, that
the franchise hereby granted, shall also, at all times, be sub-
ject to the control of the general assembly, and may at any
time be revoked by it.

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