Chap. 181.—An ACT to ratify, confirm, and amend the charter of the Norfolk
county water company, and to give it additional powers.

Approved January 25, 1900.

Whereas the circuit court of the county of Norfolk did, on the seven-
teenth day of June, in the year of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,
grant a charter of incorporation to the Norfolk county water company,
whic was on the twentieth dav of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-
nine, duly lodged and recorded in the office of the secretary of the com-
monwealth, as follows:

Charter.

In the circuit court of the county of Norfolk, in the state of Virginia,
June seventeenth term, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

Upon the application of Joseph W. Hawley, Joseph 8. Keen, junior,
George M. Bunting, H. Bayard Hodge, J. Orlando White, and W. D.
Pender, made in accordance with the statutes in such cases, made and
provided by the foregoing certificate, which has been duly acknowledged
before a notary public as the law requires, this charter of incorporation
is granted upon the terms therein set out, and the said Joseph W. Hawley,
Joseph S. Keen, junior, George M. Bunting, Hl. Bayard Hodzge, ia
Orlando White, and W. D. Pender, and such others as they may associate
with them now or hereafter, are hereby created a body politic and cor-
porate, as follows:

First. The name of the company shall be the Norfolk county water
company.
Second. The location of the principal office shall be in the county
of Norfolk, in the state of Virginia.

Third. The purposes for which the said company is formed are:

a. To purchase and otherwise acquire real estate, the amount to be
held at any one time in the state of Virginia not to exceed one thousand
(1,000) acres.

b. To bore wells, and extract water therefrom, to take water from
rivers, creeks or springs, to build cisterns, tanks, dams, and other means
of creating a water supply.

c. To erect, equip, and operate a pumping plant or plants, stand pipe
or stand pipes, reservoir or reservoirs for the purposes of pumping water
and storing the same.

d. To lay and maintain pipe or pipes for conducting water and also
to repair such pipe or pipes.

e. To conduct water through such pipe or pipes, and sell the same to
individuals or corporations at such rents as it may deem expedient and
to collect such rent or rents therefor.

f. To manufacture, purchase, or otherwise acquire, hold, own, mort-

gage, pledge, sell, lease or let, assign, and transfer, invest, trade, deal in
with goods, wares, merchandise, stock and bonds of other corporations
and other evidences of indebtedness and property of every class and
description, and shall have the right to vote on all shares of stock in
other companies or corporations the same as an actual person, also to
collect dividends on stocks and interest on bonds the same as an actual
person.
" g. To have the right to borrow money in such amounts and at such
times as to it may seem expedient, and may also issue bonds and secure
the same by mortgage or other lien upon its property of every kind and
description, and upon its franchise.

h. To pay for labor, work or material in stock or bonds as it may deem
expedient.

i. To make and enter into contracts of every sort and kind with any
individual, firm, association, corporation—private, public, or municipal.

Fourth. The capital stock of the said company shall be one hundred
thousand ($100,000) dollars, divided into one thousand shares of the par
value of one hundred ($100) dollars each.

Fifth. The names and residences of the officers who for the first year
are to manage the affairs of the company are as follows: Joseph W.
Hawley, Media, Pennsylvania, president; Joseph S. Keen, junior, Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, vice-president; George M. Bunting, Chester, Penn-
svlvania, treasurer; H. Bayard Hodge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. sec-
retary; and a board of directors to consist of the above named officers,
together with J. Orlando White, of Camden, New Jersey, and W. D.
Pender, of Norfolk, Virginia.

Sixth. The chief business to be transacted is as set forth in paragraph
number three, sections A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I.

Seventh. The company shall pay all state taxes hereafter assessed
against it in lawful money of the United States.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
charter of the Norfolk county water company be, and the same is hereby,
ratified and confirmed, except in so far as the officers thereof may have
been changed in the meantime, in which event such change of officers,
if any, is also ratified and confirmed.

2. The said company is authorized to contract and agree with the
owner of any land for the convenient location of any of its works, or the
location of any of its pipe or pipes in Norfolk or Princess Anne counties,
and in case of a disagreement, or if the owner thereof be a feme-covert
under age, non compos mentis, out of the state, or unknown, the said
company shall have the right to condemn such lands as may be necessary
for the building of its works, or any of them, the laying of its pipes, or
any of them, in the manner prescribed by the forty-sixth chapter of
the code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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