Chap. 191.—An ACT to incorporate the Nansemond and Isle of Wight
Draw-Bridge Company.

Approved March 1, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books for receiving subscriptions to an amount
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dol-
lars each, for constructing a toll-bridge, with a suitable draw,
across the Nansemond river, at or between Sleepy-Hole

int and Pig point, on tho east side, and the lands of J. J.

hillips and C. W. Grandy, on the west side of said river, in
Nansemond county, and for the purpose of constructing
roads to connect either end of said bridge with the county
roads in said county. The said books shall be opened in the
towns of Suffolk and Smithfield, and the city of Portsmouth,
or at either of said places, under the superintendence of
three commissioners to be hereafter named, by J. W. Ames,
George S. Rives, C. H. Causey, H. Woodward, W. J. Lee, of
Nansemond county; W. S. Grimes, R. S. Thomas, I. W.
Duck, T. Q. Gilliam, Charles Bunkly, of Isle of Wight
county ; John T. Griffin, R. T. K. Bain, John 8. Wise, M. P.
Rue, and William MacWhorter, of Norfolk county.

2. When four thousand dollars of the capital stock of said
company shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their
personal representatives or assigns, shall be and are hereby
created and incorporated into a company, by tho name and
style of The Nansemond and Isle of Wight Draw-Bridge
Company.

3. The said company shall be incorporated upon condition
that the draw of the bridge to be constructed across said
river shall not be less than eighty feet in width in the clear,
and that said bridge sball be subject to the provisions of
chapters fifty-seven and sixty-one of the Code of Virginia
(eighteen hundred and seventy-three), so far as the same
shall be applicable.

4. The construction of said bridge shall be under the
superintendence of, and subject to the decision of the board
of river and harbor commissioners of Nansemond. river;
and it shall, during the night time, be kept lighted with
such lights as the said board shall prescribe and direct.
5. For the purpose of constructing said bridge and roads,
the said company may purchase and hold the land on which
the bridge and roads shall be located, or the right of way
over the same, as far as may be necessary; and if the presi-
dent and directors of the said company cannot agree for the
purchase with the respective owners of said land, or the
right of way over the same, they may proceed to have the
same condemned for the purpose atoresaid, in the manner
prescribed for internal improvement companies by the said
fifty-sixth chapter of the Code. The said bridge sball be
commenced within two ycars, and completed within three
years after the passage of this act.

6. As soon as said bridge is completcd, the president and
directors of the said company may demand and receive such
reasonable tolls as their by-laws may prescribe; szid tolls are
not, however, to exceed those allowed to be charged by the
general law.

7. This act shall bein force from its passage.

Chap. 191.—An ACT to incorporate the Nansemond and Isle of Wight
Draw-Bridge Company.

Approved March 1, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful to open books for receiving subscriptions to an amount
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dol-
lars each, for constructing a toll-bridge, with a suitable draw,
across the Nansemond river, at or between Sleepy-Hole

int and Pig point, on tho east side, and the lands of J. J.

hillips and C. W. Grandy, on the west side of said river, in
Nansemond county, and for the purpose of constructing
roads to connect either end of said bridge with the county
roads in said county. The said books shall be opened in the
towns of Suffolk and Smithfield, and the city of Portsmouth,
or at either of said places, under the superintendence of
three commissioners to be hereafter named, by J. W. Ames,
George S. Rives, C. H. Causey, H. Woodward, W. J. Lee, of
Nansemond county; W. S. Grimes, R. S. Thomas, I. W.
Duck, T. Q. Gilliam, Charles Bunkly, of Isle of Wight
county ; John T. Griffin, R. T. K. Bain, John 8. Wise, M. P.
Rue, and William MacWhorter, of Norfolk county.

2. When four thousand dollars of the capital stock of said
company shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their
personal representatives or assigns, shall be and are hereby
created and incorporated into a company, by tho name and
style of The Nansemond and Isle of Wight Draw-Bridge
Company.

3. The said company shall be incorporated upon condition
that the draw of the bridge to be constructed across said
river shall not be less than eighty feet in width in the clear,
and that said bridge sball be subject to the provisions of
chapters fifty-seven and sixty-one of the Code of Virginia
(eighteen hundred and seventy-three), so far as the same
shall be applicable.

4. The construction of said bridge shall be under the
superintendence of, and subject to the decision of the board
of river and harbor commissioners of Nansemond. river;
and it shall, during the night time, be kept lighted with
such lights as the said board shall prescribe and direct.
5. For the purpose of constructing said bridge and roads,
the said company may purchase and hold the land on which
the bridge and roads shall be located, or the right of way
over the same, as far as may be necessary; and if the presi-
dent and directors of the said company cannot agree for the
purchase with the respective owners of said land, or the
right of way over the same, they may proceed to have the
same condemned for the purpose atoresaid, in the manner
prescribed for internal improvement companies by the said
fifty-sixth chapter of the Code. The said bridge sball be
commenced within two ycars, and completed within three
years after the passage of this act.

6. As soon as said bridge is completcd, the president and
directors of the said company may demand and receive such
reasonable tolls as their by-laws may prescribe; szid tolls are
not, however, to exceed those allowed to be charged by the
general law.

7. This act shall bein force from its passage.