Chap. 669.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and second sections of
an act approved March 1, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the southern
branch drawbridge company.

Approved March 1, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
first and second sections of an act approved March first, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to incorporate the southern branch
drawbridge company, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That F. Rich-
ardson, C. R. Johnson, George W. Curling, H. W. West, L. K. Hyslop,
T. W. Butt, Alvah H. Martin, J. P. A. Mottu, S. W. Lyons, 8. Bland, E.
F. Cromwell, E. L. Morgan, their associates and assigns, be, and they
are hereby, created and constituted a body politic and corporate, under
the name of the southern branch drawbridge company, with full and
adequate powers to build, construct, own, and operate a bridge across
the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, at a point southerly, about
three miles from the Norfolk and western railroad bridge in the county
of Norfolk, and over the same branch; and to acquire and hold so much
land as may be necessary for the construction and operation of said
bridge: provided, however, that the bridge hereby authorized to be built
shall have a draw with double openings, namely: one opening on each
side of a pivot picr; and that each of the openings shall be as wide in
the clear as cither of the openings in the aforesaid railroad draw,
situated below on the same stream; and provided further, that the
said bridge shall be completed, ready for travel, on or before the first
day of January, nineteen hundred and two.

82. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than five
thousand, or more than ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each. As soon as the said bridge is completed, the
said company may demand and receive such reasonable tolls as may
be prescribed by its by-laws, not exceeding, however, the present rate
of tolls charged by the Norfolk county ferries.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.