Chap. 486.—An ACT to incorporate the Fairview turnpike company.
Approved February 24, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That E. |
Dawes, H. C. Bradford, B. Corprew and R. C. Carrington, and suc
other persons as now are or may hereafter be associated with them, bx
and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by th
name and style of the ‘‘ Fairview turnpike company, ’’ with full an
adequate powers to construct a turnpike road from some convenier
point in Norfolk county, at or near the limits of the city of Norfoll
thence running in a generally northerly and northeasterly direction b
the most convenient route to Chesapeake bay, with the right to cro:
Tanner’s creek, Mason’s creek and Little creek, or any of them or the
branches with suitable bridges: provided, that the said turnpike roa
shall not be less than thirty nor more than one hundred feet in width.

2. The said turnpike road shall lie wholly in Norfolk and Prince
Anne counties, and the said company may build lateral branches theret
not exceeding three miles in length. The total Jength of the said turr
pike road and its branches shall not exceed fifteen miles.

3. The said company shall have the right in making the said road «
any part thereof to use shells, plank, sand or any other material, an
shall also be privileged to provide and maintain open ditches on eith
side of said road to carry off surface or running water.

4. The said company may build a bridge or bridges across any navig:
ble stream or streams in its line: provided, a suitable draw or draws |
provided.

). The said company is authorized to acquire such land by purchas
donation, condemnation or otherwise as may be necessary for the bus
ness ofthe company and shall have the right to convey and dispose «
the same.

6. The said company shall be, and is hereby, authorized to erect or
or more gates across the said road and its branches at such points as it
may deem expedient, and to charge toll for travel thereon, which may
be done after one bridge and one or more miles of the said road have
been completed, the rates to be determined upon by the directors of the
said company.

7. The capital stock of the said company shall not be less than one
thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, the said capital stock to
be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when the
minimum stock shall have been subscribed and two dollars per share
paid thereon the said corporators may proceed to organize the company
in manner and form as is provided generally by law.

8. The said company shall have the right with the consent of the road
trustees of Norfolk county and the supervisors of Princess Anne county
to use any of the public roads now existing in said counties or such as
shall be hereafter established and laid out: provided, that so long as it
uses the same they be kept in good order and repair free of cost and ex-
pense to the said counties, and shall have such other powers in connection
with its franchise as may ‘be necessary for the full, complete and success-
ful operation of a turnpike company.

), This company shall have the right to acquire an interest in or con-
solidate with any other turnpike or drawbridge company in said coun-
ties, and said companies shall have the same privileges with regard to
this company, and it shall have the nght to transfer and convey its cor-
porate privileges and to hypothecate its franchise and property rights
when it shall deem it expedient to do so.

10. The said company shall have the right to establish and maintain
ona part of its mght of way a pathway or roadbed especially adapted
to the use of bicycles, which may be constructed of cinders, gravel,
cement, brick or any materials it may deem fit and may charge toll for
travel thereon.

11. The said company may give, lease, sell or otherwise convey to
any railway for passenger traflic the right of way over its bridges or
turnpike.

12. All taxes due to the state of Virginia from this company shall be
paid in lawful money of the United States and not in coupons.

13. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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