CHAP. 321.—An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Belt Line rail-
way company.

Approved February 22, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That G. M. Serpell, H. Walters, Charles G. Elliott, Charles
G. Eddy, Joseph I. Doran, Walter H. Taylor, William C.
Bullitt, and Warren G. Elliott, and such other persons as
may be associated with them, their successors and assigns,
be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and cor-
porate under and by the name of the Norfolk and Ports-
mouth belt line railway company, and by such name may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have al}
the general powers conferred, and be subject to all the gen-
eral restrictions imposed, by the laws of this state upon
such bodies politic and corporate.

2. The capital stock of said company shall be one hun-
dred thousand dollars, but may be increased from time to
time to such amount or amounts not exceeding five hun-
dred thousand dollars as the stockholders in any annual
or general meeting may determine, and shall be divided
into shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. The said Norfolk and Portsmouth belt line railway
company is hereby authorized and empowered to locate,
construct, equip, maintain, and operate a road, with all
necessary tracks and side-tracks from any point on the
line of the railroad of the Norfolk and Carolina railroad
company, in the county of Norfolk, by such route as may
be adopted by the directors of the company hereby incor-
porated, through the said county of Norfolk, and across
the southern branch of the Elizabeth river to any point on
the line of the Norfolk and Western railroad, between the
eastern and southern branches of the Elizabeth river in
the county of Norfolk, and for that purpose the said com-
pany shall have the right to acquire, in the mode pre-
scribed by the laws of this state, the title to a continuous
tract of land not to exceed one hundred feet in width
along its route for its right of way, and to such other lands
as may be necessary for its purposes. The object of said
company being to facilitate the interchange of traffic be-
tween all railroads in said county connecting with it.

4. The said Norfolk and Portsmouth belt line railway
company shall allow connection to be made with it by all
railroads now constructed, or that may hereafter be con-
structed, and who may desire to make such connection,
and the said company shall transport promptly and effi-
ciently over its line of railroad all cars, both passenger
and freight, tendered to it by any other railroad company
at its point of crossing or connection with said railroad
to its termini, or to such other point or places on its line
of railroad, or reached by its line of railroad, to which
the same may be directed, ordered, or consigned, and
shall deliver said cars to the railroad company to which
the same may be directed, ordered, or consigned, at its
point of crossing or connection with said railroad. And
in the arrangement of its traffic rates the rates fixed for
business done over the said road consigned to Portsmouth
shall be the same, or no greater, than on business con-
signed to Norfolk; and all railroads using said belt line
shall charge for freight and passengers transported from
any point on their respective lines to the depot or station
on the said belt line nearest to Portsmouth no greater
rates than for the like character of freight and passen-
gers transported to the depot or station on the said helt
line nearest Norfolk.
5. The said railway company shall charge for the firans-
portation of all passenger or freight cars the same rate to
all railroad companies, which charges shall be just and
reasonable, and no distinction or preference shall be in
any manner shown in favor of or against any railroad com-
pany, either as to rate of charge or priority of service.

6. The said company shall have the power to borrow
money and to issue and sell its bonds, either registered
or coupon, to such amount or amounts as to the directors
may seein proper, and to cause the same to be secured by
one or more mortgages or deeds of trust, conveying all the
property, rights, and franchises of the said company to
such trustees, and on such terms and conditions as the
directors of said company may direct and prescribe.

7. The said company shall have the right to construct
a bridge across the southern branch of the Elizabeth
river at some point between the Gilmerton Locks, on fhe
Dismal Swamp canal, and the United States navy-yard:
provided, that the navigation of the said branch of said
river shall not be interfered with, or the said company
may contract with any other company owning the same
for the use by the company hereby incorporated of any
bridge already constructed over the said branch.

8. The said company shall have the right to enter into
such traffic arrangements as may be desired and agreed
upon between the said company and any other railroad
company with which it may connect, and any railroad
company now in operation or which may be hereafter con-
structed shall have the right to use the said belt line
railroad upon the same terms as may be in effect between
the said Norfolk and Portsmouth belt line railway com-
pany and any other railroad company for similar service.

9. Any railroad company incorporated under the laws
of this state may subscribe to the capital stock of this
company.

10. The company hereby incorporated shall pay all
taxes and assessments due the state of Virginia in lawful
money and not in coupons. And no other railroad com-
pany shall have the right to use the line of road herein-
before authorized to be constructed, unless such railroad
company shall pay all taxes and assessments due the
state in lawful money of the United States and not in
coupons.

11. This act shall be in force from its passage.
HAP. 82.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of
Glou r county to borrow money and issue bond or bonds
for the‘ame, to be used in rebuilding the wharf at Gloucester
Point.

Approved February 22, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly. of Virginia,
That the board of supervisors of Gloucester county is
hereby authorized and empowered to borrow a sum of
money not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars,
and to issue, to secure said sum, a bond or bonds of
said county, to be signed by the chairman of said board
and countersigned by its clerk; said bond or bonds to
bear a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum per
annum, payable at such time as the board may deem, but
not to exceed four years from the date of the bond or
bonds so issued. The money is borrowed solely for the
purpose of rebuilding the wharf at Gloucester Point in
said county, and after it is rebuilt the board of super-
visors of Gloucester county shall appropriate the receipts
from said wharf and public property at Gloucester Point
in paying the current expenses of said wharf and to the
liquidation of said bond or bonds. If the receipts are
not sufficient to meet the payment of the bond or bonds
when due, then the board of supervisors are authorized
to levy, to pay the same, upon all the taxable property in
said county.

2. This act shall be in force from passage.