Chap. 184.—An ACT to amend the charter of the Edenton and Norfolk
railroad company, and to change the name of said company to that
of the Carolina and Chesapeake railroad company.

Approved February 26, 1884.

Whereas the general assembly of the state of North Caro-
lina did, on the ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and
seventy, pass an act entitled an act to incorporate the Edenton
and Norfolk railroad company; and whereas the general
assembly of the state of Virginia did afterwards pass an act,
approved on the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and
seventy, entitled an act incorporating the Edenton and Nor-
folk railroad company, by which said last mentioned act, the
Edenton and Norfolk railroad company, which had_ been
theretofore as aforesaid created a corporation of the state of
North Carolina, was likewise made a corporation of the state
of Virginia; and whereas the name of the said Edenton and
Norfolk railroad company, after the same had been duly
organized as a corporation of both the states of North Caro-
lina and Virginia by virtue of the acts of assembly aforesaid,
was changed to that of the Carolina and Chesapeake railroad
company, and its charter otherwise amended in the state of
North Carolina by virtue of two acts of the general assembly
of that state, one of which, entitled an act to change the
name of the Edenton and Norfolk railroad company, and to
make the same the Carolina and Chesapeake railroad com-
pany, and to amend the charter of said company, was ratified
on the fifteenth day of February, and the other of which,
entitled an act to amend the fourth section of an act to
change the name of the Edenton and Norfolk railroad com-
pany, and to make the same the Carolina and Chesapeake
railroud company, and to amend the charter of said company,
was ratified on the sixteenth day of March, eightecn hundred
and ecighty-three; and whereas it is important that the said
company, being one and the same corporation in both states,
shall bear the same name and have the same powers, so far
as they are applicable, and so far as they are governed by the
general laws of Virginia in each of the said states; therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the name of the Edenton and Norfolk railroad company, a
corporation created by the aforesaid act of the general as-
sembly of North Carolina, passed March the ninth, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and afterwards made a corporation ot
this state by the aforesaid act of the gencral assembly of
Virginia, approved July the ninth, eighteen hundred and
seventy, be and the same is hereby changed to that of the
Carolina and Chesapeake railroad company.

2. That the said company incorporated as aforesaid by
virtue of the act of assembly of the state of North Carolina,
passed March the ninth, cighteen hundred and seventy, enti-
tled an act to incorporate the Edenton and Norfolk railroad
company, is hereby declared to be a corporation of the state
of Virginia, under the name of the Carolina and Chesapeake
railroad company, and invested with all the rights, powers,
privileyes and franchises conferred by an act of the general
assembly of the state of Virginia, approved July ninth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy, entitled an act incorporating the
Edenton and Norfolk railroad company.

3. The said company is authorized to construct, equip and
Operate its line of road from the North Carolina state line, in
the county of Nansemond, to the city of Portsmouth or the
city of Norfolk, or any point on the Elizabeth or Nansemond
rivers, or any of the branches thereof: provided that such
construction be commenced within two years and completed
In six years from the passage of this act.

4. The mectings of tho stockholders of said company may
be at any point along the line of its road in cither of the
states through which it is to pass.

0. But the said corporation shall always remain a domestic
corporation of this state, and subject in all respects to the
laws of Virginia and the jurisdiction of her courts. And
this charter shall at all times be subject to amendment, alte-
ration or repeal by the general assembly of Virginia.

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