Chap. 762.—An ACT to incorporate the Onancock arn
electric railway, light and power comps

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virg
H. Fletcher, junior, Spencer F. Rogers, Otho L. Parke
kins, Stewart K. Powell, John P. L. Hopkins, Edwa:
S. Parsons, Thomas 8S. Hopkins, Benjamin T. Gu
Blackstone, and John C. Justis, and such other perso)
ciated with them, and their successors, be, and they
stituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of
Drummondtown electric railway, light, and power cc

2. The capital stock of the said company shall no!
thousand dollars, nor more than fifty thousand doll:
into shares of one hundred dollars each.

3. The said company shall have power and autho
equip, maintain, and operate a railroad in the county o
state of Virginia, from a point in the town of Onanco
present steamboat wharf, along the line of Market str
direction to the corporate limits of said town; thence
road of said county, or by some route parallel there
station on the line of the New York, Philadelphia,
road; thence continuing along said county road, or by s
thereto, to the village of Drummondtown; thence th:
of Drummondtown to James 8S. Melson’s store; and
seaside county road, or by some route parallel ther
Lewis’ store at the foot of Bayly’s Neck road.

4. The said company shall also have power and a
establish, maintain, and operate in said town of Onan
in said county of Accomac, an electric plant for the pg
tricity, and the supply of the electric current, for its
sale to all or any persons, parties, or corporations, d
same for heat, light, or power or any and all other 1
electric current may now, or at any time hereafter, be
cable, and may manufacture, use and sell, distribute.
same for all said purposes to all and any persons, par
tions desiring to use the same, upon such terms as may be agreed upon
between the contracting partics; and may, with the consent of the coun-
cil of said town of Onancock, or the board of supervisors of said county
of Accomac, use the strects of said town, or the highways of said county,
for erecting its poles or posts and stringing wires thereon, or for con-
ducting pipes or conduits thereunder and placing their wires therein.

5. Before said company shall use the streets of said town of Onancock,
or the highways of said county of Accomac, for the purpose of con-
structing its roads, or for erecting its poles or posts and stringing wires
thereon, or for conducting its pipes and conduits thereunder and plac-
ing the wires therein, it shall first obtain the consent of the council of
said town and of the board of supervisors of said county: provided,
however, that no part of any public highway shall be occupied without
the consent of the landowner be first acquired, by purchase or other-
wise.

6. The said company shall have the power and authority to begin
the construction of the said railroad at any point along its proposed
route, and may use and operate the same from the time it shall have
been commenced.

7. It shall be lawful for the said company to transport passengers,
freight, bargage and the mails of the United States, and eollect fare and
tolls therefor, and use in the propulsion of ears on its road, either horses,
mules, steam, or electricity as a power, and, in general, have all such
other powers, privileges, nights, and franchises that may be necessary
for the accomplishment of the purposes of its incorporation which are
conferred by the laws of Virginia upon works of internal improvement.

8. The said company shall have power to acquire by purchase, lease,
or condemnation according to law, all lands required for a right of way
for its railroad, and for stations, depots, power-house, and terminal facili-
ties, for its operation and for the construction, equipment, maintenance
and operation of its said electric plant, and may also acquire, purchase.
accept, and hold such other property, real, personal, or mixed, as may
be necessary or useful for the purposes of its business; and may borrow
money for its use, issne bonds and notes therefor, and secure such bonds
and notes by deed or deeds of trust or mortgage or mortgages on any
part or all of its property or franchise.

9. The said company shall have power to cross any other railroad
upon the terms and in the manner prescribed by the gencral law fot
one work of internal improvement crossing another; and with the con-
sent of the council of said town of Onancock and the board of super-
visors of the said county of Accomac, respectively, may use any public
streets of the said town, or anv public roads in said county along it:
route not heretofore designated in this act.

10. And the said company, in addition to its other rights and privilege:
shall have the power and authority to establish, construct, operate, anc
maintain a plant, works, machinery, and other necessary fixtures anc
appliances for the manufacture of artificial ice. on anv plan or by ani
process it may approve, the same to be Iocated in the said town o
Onancock, or at anv place in the said county of Accomac which it may
determine upon, and to that end it may buy, sell. and deal in all material
necessary for the manufacture of artificial ice; may use and employ steam
water, or electric power, and may buy, sell, and distribute ice to persons
and corporations who may care to take it, and upon such terms as may be
agreed upon between the contracting parties.

11. The officers of said company shall consist of a president, vice-
president, secretary and treasurer, and a hoard of five directors, but that
number may be increased from time to time by the stockholders. The
said board shall have power to establish and make such rules and regula-
tions and by-laws as they may deem proper or desirable for the manage-
ment and control of the affairs and business of the said company.

12. The incorporators herein named, or two-thirds of them, may, at
any time and place which they may deem proper, and with or without
a@ previeus advertisement thereof, procecd to receive subscriptions to
the stock of the said company; which subscriptions may be paid in cash,
real or personal property, labor, options or rizhts of way, at such valua-
tion as may be determined upon by the incorporators and the subscriber;
and when the minimum amount of said stock shall have been subscribed,
such subscribers may organize and shall be authorized to proceed with
the construction of the works herein authorized and empowered to said
company.

13. The said company shall commence the construction of said railroad
within three years and complete the same within five years from the
passage of this act.

14. All taxes due by the said company shall be paid in lawful money
of the United States.

15. This act shall take effect from its passage.