Chap. 440.—An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkley ferry company.

Approved February 27, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W. C.
Hardy, Park L. Poindexter, F. M. Halstead, R. Lee Hardy, Henry
Walk, H. C. Gordon, Charles H. Williams, and their associates and
successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body
politic aud corporate under the name and style of Norfolk and Berk-
ley ferry company, and as such may have and use a common seal,
sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and make all by-
laws and regulations for the management of its property and the
proper conduct of its business: provided the same be not inconsist-
ent with the laws of the state. ,

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not be less than
five thousand dollars nor more than one hundred thousand dollars,
to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. The said company shall have power and authority to construct,
equip, maintain and operate a ferry, operated and propelled by steam
or otherwise, from or near the eastern end of Main street, in the city
of Norfolk, to the pier of the old Norfolk draw-bridge in Berkley, and
for that purpose to purchase, build or lease steamers, barges, vessels,
flatsor any and all other needful appliances for the proper conduct
and management of its said business, and to acquire by gift, purchase,
lease or otherwise, and to hold real estate in the county of Norfolk
or the city of Norfolk or its suburbs, not exceeding in each, respec-
tively, two acres.

4. It shall be lawful for said company to transport passengers,
freight, baggage, horses, cattle and all other animals, carriages,
wagons, other vehicles and commodities, and to collect fares and
tolls for the same.

_5&. The said company shall have the power and authority to lease
its ferry and franchises, to borrow money for the use of the corpora
tion, and to secure such loans by mortgage or deed of trust on all or
part of its estate, franchise and income.

6. The following-named corporators shall constitute the board of
directors, and, until their successors are elected by the stockholders,
shall manage the atfairs of the company, to-wit: Henry Gordon, W.
C. Hardy and Henry Walk.

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