CHAP. 638.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act to incorporate the Brookland railway and improvement com-
pany in Henrico county, approved March 4, 1890.

Approved March 3, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the third section of an act entitled “an act to incor-
porate the Brookland railway and improvement company,”
approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. The objects of this corporation are to buy, hold, and
sell real estate in Brookland district of Henrico county,
Virginia, and its vicinity, and to build, equip, and erect a
bridge or viaduct over Bacon’s quarter branch, at a point
where said stream crosses First street, in the city of Rich-
mond, and in the county of Henrico, the same being at
present the boundary line between said city and county,
and to build and operate a line of railway and to run cars
on the same, propelled by electric or horse power, from
any point in said district of the county into any part of
the city of Richmond or the county of Henrico, Virginia,
the said railway to be located upon and along any roads
or streets of the county or city, after permission for such
location shall have been obtained from the judge of Hen-
rico county court and the common council of the city of
Richmond.

2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for said
compauy to erect a ftoll-bridge across Bacon’s quarter
branch at a point where said stream crosses First street
in the city of Richmond and in the county of Henrico,
the same being at present the boundary line between said
city and county; and for that purpose it is hereby author-
ized to purchase or condemn, in the mode prescribed by
law, a lot of ground not exceeding one acre for the erec-
tion of a toll-house, and so much land as may be neces-
sary for the right of way, abutments, and the construction
of the said bridge, and a convenient pathway over the
same.

3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for said
company, or its legal representatives, as soon as the said
bridge shall be completed and open for transportation and
travel, to charge and collect such tolls as the board of di-
rectors may from time to time prescribe, but the tolls
charged therefor shall not exceed the following amounts,
namely: Sheep or hogs per head, one cent; person on
foot, one cent; hand-cart, truck or wheelbarrow, two cents;
cattle, per head, three cents; horse, mule, ass or work-ox,
four cents; man and horse, five cents; one-horse vehicle,
five cents; two-horse vehicle, ten cents; three-horse vehi-
cle, fifteen cents; four-horse vehicle, twenty cents: pro-
vided the said bridge be commenced within six months
and completed within twelve months.

4. Be it further enacted, That all laws now in force
regulating toll-bridges shall apply to this act, and nothing
herein contained shall prevent the general assembly from
changing and regulating hereafter the rates of tolls pre-
scribed by this charter.

5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force
from and after its passage.