CHAP. 562.—An ACT to amend section 5 of an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company,
approved January 28, 1892.

Approved March 1, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
Thai section five of an act entitled “an act to incorporate
the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company,” approved
January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The said company shall have the right to construct,
equip, and operate one or more railway lines, to be pro-
pelled by horse, steam, or electric power, over said turn-
pikes or other routes from Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk coun-
ty, over said Tanner’s creek into the city of Norfolk, and
to connect either within or outside of said city by branch
roads or sidings with other railways or street-car lines
running into the city of Norfolk, the said company to use
none of the streets of the said city without the consent of
the city councils and under their regulation, and to
acquire, by purchase or condemnation proceedings, such
lands as may be necessary to said tracks, roads, or for the
buildings and works of said company: provided that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize
the construction, use, or operation of any street railway
within the limits of the city of Norfolk nearer than two
equares on any street parallel to any street which is now
occupied by a street railroad, or which the city councils
of the city of Norfolk have authorized the Norfolk city
railroad or the Suburban and city railroad and improve-
ment company to occupy: provided further, that the said
company shall have no right to acquire property in the
corporate limits of the city of Norfolk by condemnation
proceedings.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.