Chap. 194.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an aet to incorporate the
Norfolk and Athintic terminal company, approved January 28, 1802, as amended
by an act approved Mareh 1, 1s.

Approved February 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That 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, ax amended and re-enacted by an aet approved March
first, 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 propelled by horse, steam, elec-
tric, or other power, over said turnpikes or other routes from Sewell’s
Point, In Norfolk county, over sald Tanner's ercek into the city of Nor-
folk, aud 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, upon such terms and conditions as are now “provided
by anv existing ordinance or ordinances of the city of Norfolk, or if the
Norfolk and Atlantie terminal company shall desire to operate its curs
for more than five hundred vards over and upon the track or tracks of
any other such railway or street-car company, then upon such termes
and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by and between the
sald respective compares, the said Norfolk and Atlantic terminal com-
pany to use none of the xtrects of said city without the consent of the
city councils and under their regulation, and ty acquire by purchase or
condemnation proceedings such lands as may be necessary to said tracks,
‘oads, or for the buildings and works of said company: provided, that
10thing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the construc-
ion, use and operation of any street railway within the limits of the
ty ‘of Norfolk nearer than two squares on any street parallel to any
treet which is now occupied by a street railroad, or which the city
councils of the city of Norfolk have authorized the Norfolk city rail-
‘oad, or the Suburban and city railroad and improvement company, o1
he Norfolk street railroad company to occupy; except, however, that
he Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company may parallel any existing
‘treet railway or street railways to this extent, that the Norfolk and At-
antic terminal company may construct, equip, and operate its railway
lines upon Williams avenue and Omohundro avenue as far north as
f'wenty-fourth street, and from Omohundro avenue, and from Williams
avenue, and by way of Armistead bridge road to James street, and upon
James street to Bute street and, if and when Tripoli street shall be ex-
tended from Wolfe street to Bute street, or James street shall be ex-
fended to Wolfe street, then upon said Tripoli street or James street, s

extended across Bute street, and to and across Wolfe street to Market
place, and upon Market place to the south side of City Hall avenue:
<ubject, however, to such consent to and subject to such rules and regu.
lations with reference to such use and occupation of said streets by saic
company as may have been heretofore or may he hereafter granted anc
prescribed by the councils of the city of Norfolk: and provided, fur.
ther, that the said company shall have no right to acquire property 11
the corporate limits of the city of Norfolk by condemnation proceedings.

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