Chap. 160.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3,9 and 10 of an act of
the oe & eneral assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to incorporate the Buck-
hoebus and Hampton railroad company.

Approved January 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions, one, three, nine and ten of an act of the general assembly of
Virginia entitled an act to incorporate the Buckroe, Phoebus and
Hampton railroad company, be amended and re-enacted so to read
as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J.
A. Watkins, George Booker, Matthew Armstrong, R. M. Booker, C.
T. Holtzclaw, W. T. Gatewood, John B. Lake, P. T. Woodfin, R. E.
Boykin and Irwin Tucker, and such other persons as may be asso-
ciated with them, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, con-
stituted a body corporate and politic by the name of the Old Point
beach railroad company.

§ 3. The said company shall have power ‘and authority to construct,
equip, maintain and operate a railroad in the county of Elizabeth
City, state of Virginia, from the intersection of Mallory street and
the public road, in that part of the said county known as Boyhan’s
corner, to a point on the Chesapeake bay known as Buckroe beach.

§ 9. It shall not be necessary to publish that books will be opened
for subscription to the capital stock of the said company, but when,
and so soon as, the minimum amount of the capital stock of the said
company shall have been subscribed for, such subscribers may or-
ganize and shall be authorized to proceed with the construction of
the said railroad.

§ 10. The said company shall commence the construction of the
said railroad within one year and complete the same within three
years from the passage of this act.

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