CHAP. 293.—An ACT to allow Major W. Pilchard to erect a wharf,
platforms, sheds, and other necessary buildings for conductin
the business at Greenbackville, Accomac county, Virginia, ad-
joining his land.

Approved February 16, 1892,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Major W. Pilchard, of Worcester county, Maryland,
be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to erect a
wharf, platform, sheds and other necessary buildings for
conducting the business at Greenbackville, Accomac
county, Virginia, adjoining his land on Chincoteague bay,
for the purpose of shipping lumber, cord wood, staves,
oysters, clams, fish, and any other commodities to and
from the same for himself and others—starting on the land
of said Major W. Pilchard at low-water mark on the south-
west side of and at the mouth of a small gut or creek, fol-
lowing said low-water mark on the land of said Major W.
Pilchard in a southwestwardly direction about three hun-
dred feet to the line of John H. Young, and extending
into Chincoteague bay, about a southeast direction a dis-
tance of five hundred feet, between parallel lines of about
three hundred feet, or the distance from the point of first
beginning to the line of said John H. Young, on the
southwest; and the said Major W. Pilchard, his heirs and
assigns, shall have the right to charge and collect by law,
such compensation for the use of said wharf, platforms,
sheds and other buildings thereon, or any of them, as
may have been agreed upon by and between the parties,
oras is usual: provided that the said wharf, platforms,
sheds and other buildings shall not interfere with navi-
gation; and provided also, that this act shall at all times
be under the control of the general assembly of Virginia,
and be amended or repealed as may be deemed proper.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.