Chap. 411.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 31 of an act entitled an act tc
incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to pro:
vide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1806.

Approved February 19, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
thirty-one of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newpor
News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, ap-
proved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
$31. To determine and to designate the route and grade of any rail-

roe to be hereafter laid in said city; to restrain and regulate the rate of
speed of locomotive engines and of cars upon railroads in said city; to
grant franchises to railroads and other corporations through, along, and
under the strects of said city upon such conditions as the council may
determine; and to require the establishment of all necessary railro: ud
crossings within said city subject, however, to the following conditions,
limitations and provisions—to-wit: That for and during the period of
six years from the date of this charter not exceeding ‘three er ossings
shall be established across, under, or over the tracks and roadbeds of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company in said city, to be located
respectively at the intersection of the said railroad with Twenty-fifth,
Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fourth streets, and that all of said crossings
at any time established and constructed after the passage of this charter
shall be underground crossings or overhead crossings of not less than
twenty-one feet in height from the level of said track: and the expense
of establishing and constructing all crossings over or ‘under said tracks
and roadbeds, shall be borne equally by the said Chesapeake and Ohio

railway company and by the said city: provided, however, that the
existing crossing at Tw enty- cighth street may be continued as a grade
crossing until such time as the council of said city shall require the
same to be constructed as an overhead or underground crossing.

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