Chap. 918.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Phoebus and Fox Hill railroad company, approved February
12, 1808.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Phoebus and Fox Hill
railroad company, approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of Virginia, That E. M.
Tennis, S. Gordon Cumming, H. L. Gordon, J. J. Routten, Robert
Paul, R. H. Watson and Frank Walton, their associates, successors and
assigns, be, and are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and
corporate, under the name of the Phoebus and Fox Hill railroad com-
pany; and as such are authorized and empowered to construct, equip,
maintain and operate a railroad in the county of Elizabeth City, state of
Virginia, from any point in or near the village of Phoebus; thence run-
ning by the most practicable route to Fox Hill; thence through the com-
munity known as Fox Hill, ending at the bay shore on Chesapeake bay;
with like power and authority to construct, equip, maintain and operate
a branch road from its main line through the lands known as the Buck-
roe tract to Chesapeake bay, on or near the Buckroe beach, and a branch
road from its main line to any point on ITarris creek, within the county
of Elizabeth City; and the said company is hereby authorized to con-
struct and operate a ferry, by steam, sail or hand, from such terminus
on Harris creek, within the said county of Elizabeth City, to any point
or points within the county of York contiguous to Back river, and to
construct and maintain such wharves and landings as may be necessary
to the proper operation of such ferry or ferries: provided that such
wharves and landings shall not obstruct navigation.

2. This act shall bein force from its passage.