Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, three, four
and six of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Sewell’s Point rail-
road company, approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and to change the name of said company.

Approved January 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, three, four and six of an act to incorporate the
Norfolk and Sewell’s Point railroad company, approved March
twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Whenever fifteen thousand dollars of the amount afore-
said shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their execu-
tors, administrators and assigns, shall be and they are hereby
declared and constituted a body politic and corporate, under
the name and style of the Norfolk and Virginia Beach Rail-
road and Improvement Company,” and shall be entitled to
all the privileges conferred, and subject to all the restrictions
and regulations imposed by the Code of Virginia, and acts of
the general assembly amendatory thereof, so far as the same
are applicable to and not inconsistent with this act. ,

§ 3. The capital stock of said company may be increased
from time to time by the board of directors to such an amount
as they may deem necessary for the interest of the company,
not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; and the board
of directors of said company, for the purpose of fully con-
structing, equipping and maintaining said road, and also for
the purpose of purchasing real estate at its terminus or alon
its route, and making general improvements thereon, shal
alse have the power to Issue bonds to an amount not exceed-
ing the capital stock of said company, in sums not less than
one hundred dollars each, bearing interest not exceeding the
rate now allowed by law, payable, principal and interest, at
such times and places, and in such manner as may be deemed
most advantageous to said company, and may secure tho
ame by one or more mortgages or deeds of trust on the road,
ranchises, incomes, and real and personal property of said
‘ompany, or such parts thereof as may be designated in the
nortgage or deed of trust.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for said company to acquire in sub-
criptions to the capital stock of said company, or by donation,
wr by purchase, or otherwise, real estate, property, materials,
rlabor: provided, that the said company shall not hold orown
real estate to exceed three thousand acres at any one time;
ind the said company may improve, sell, lease, or convey
ither in fee or in trust, or otherwise dispose of, any real
state or other property acquired under the provisions of this
seCtiOD.

§ 6. Said company may cross any navigable stream along
the line of its route: provided, however, that the navigation
of such stream be not interfered with. And the said com-
pany shall have the right to build, purchase, hold, and employ
such steam and other boats for the purpose of transporting,
by steamer or otherwise, freight and passengers upon the
waters of the state of Virginia, from Broad creek to Norfolk;
and also to purchase and hold such wharves and warehouses
as their business may require.

2. This charter shall be void unless the said company com-
plete the said railroad, or connecting lines from Norfolk to
the said Virginia beach, within five years from the passage
of this act.

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

Chap. 19.—An ACT tv amend and re-enact section four, chapter one
hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in relation to mandamus, prohibition, &e.

Approved April 7, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter one hundred and fifty-six, section four of the Code of
Virginia of cighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. The said supreme court, besides having jurisdiction of
all such matters as are now pending therein, shall have juris-
diction to issue writs of mandamus and prohibition to the
circuit and corporation courts, and to the hustings court and
the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and in all other
cases in which it may be necessary to prevent a failure of
justice, in which a mandamus may issue according to the
principles of the common law: provided that no writ of man-
damus, prohibition, or any other summary process whatever,
shall issue in any case of the collection, or attempt to collect
revenue, or to compel the collecting officers to receive any-
thing in payment of taxes other than as provided in chapter
forty-one, Acts of Assembly, approved January twenty-six,

eighteen hundred and cighty-two, or in any case arising out
of the collection of revenue in which the applicant for
the writ or process has uny other remedy adequate for the
a and enforcement of his individual right, claim, and
demand, if just. The practice and proceedings upon such
writs all e governed and regulated, in all cases, by the
principles and practice now prevailing in respect to writs of
manda and prohibition respectively.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, three, four
and six of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Sewell’s Point rail-
road company, approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and to change the name of said company.

Approved January 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, three, four and six of an act to incorporate the
Norfolk and Sewell’s Point railroad company, approved March
twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Whenever fifteen thousand dollars of the amount afore-
said shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their execu-
tors, administrators and assigns, shall be and they are hereby
declared and constituted a body politic and corporate, under
the name and style of the Norfolk and Virginia Beach Rail-
road and Improvement Company,” and shall be entitled to
all the privileges conferred, and subject to all the restrictions
and regulations imposed by the Code of Virginia, and acts of
the general assembly amendatory thereof, so far as the same
are applicable to and not inconsistent with this act. ,

§ 3. The capital stock of said company may be increased
from time to time by the board of directors to such an amount
as they may deem necessary for the interest of the company,
not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; and the board
of directors of said company, for the purpose of fully con-
structing, equipping and maintaining said road, and also for
the purpose of purchasing real estate at its terminus or alon
its route, and making general improvements thereon, shal
alse have the power to Issue bonds to an amount not exceed-
ing the capital stock of said company, in sums not less than
one hundred dollars each, bearing interest not exceeding the
rate now allowed by law, payable, principal and interest, at
such times and places, and in such manner as may be deemed
most advantageous to said company, and may secure tho
ame by one or more mortgages or deeds of trust on the road,
ranchises, incomes, and real and personal property of said
‘ompany, or such parts thereof as may be designated in the
nortgage or deed of trust.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for said company to acquire in sub-
criptions to the capital stock of said company, or by donation,
wr by purchase, or otherwise, real estate, property, materials,
rlabor: provided, that the said company shall not hold orown
real estate to exceed three thousand acres at any one time;
ind the said company may improve, sell, lease, or convey
ither in fee or in trust, or otherwise dispose of, any real
state or other property acquired under the provisions of this
seCtiOD.

§ 6. Said company may cross any navigable stream along
the line of its route: provided, however, that the navigation
of such stream be not interfered with. And the said com-
pany shall have the right to build, purchase, hold, and employ
such steam and other boats for the purpose of transporting,
by steamer or otherwise, freight and passengers upon the
waters of the state of Virginia, from Broad creek to Norfolk;
and also to purchase and hold such wharves and warehouses
as their business may require.

2. This charter shall be void unless the said company com-
plete the said railroad, or connecting lines from Norfolk to
the said Virginia beach, within five years from the passage
of this act.

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

Chap. 19.—An ACT tv amend and re-enact section four, chapter one
hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in relation to mandamus, prohibition, &e.

Approved April 7, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
chapter one hundred and fifty-six, section four of the Code of
Virginia of cighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. The said supreme court, besides having jurisdiction of
all such matters as are now pending therein, shall have juris-
diction to issue writs of mandamus and prohibition to the
circuit and corporation courts, and to the hustings court and
the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and in all other
cases in which it may be necessary to prevent a failure of
justice, in which a mandamus may issue according to the
principles of the common law: provided that no writ of man-
damus, prohibition, or any other summary process whatever,
shall issue in any case of the collection, or attempt to collect
revenue, or to compel the collecting officers to receive any-
thing in payment of taxes other than as provided in chapter
forty-one, Acts of Assembly, approved January twenty-six,

eighteen hundred and cighty-two, or in any case arising out
of the collection of revenue in which the applicant for
the writ or process has uny other remedy adequate for the
a and enforcement of his individual right, claim, and
demand, if just. The practice and proceedings upon such
writs all e governed and regulated, in all cases, by the
principles and practice now prevailing in respect to writs of
manda and prohibition respectively.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.