Chap. 172.—An ACT to amend the charter of the Chesapeake land and im-
provement company.

Approved January 29, 1896.

Whereas the Chesapeake land and improvement company was duly
chartered by the circuit court of the city of Richmond, Virginia,
October twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and

Whereas the said company desires to change the place where the
chief business of the company is to be transacted from Richmond,
Virginia, to Newport News, Virginia; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ive (5) of the charter of the Chesapeake land and improvement
“company be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 5. Newport News, Virginia, is to be the place where the principal
office of the said company is to be kept and the chief business to be
rransacted.

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