Chap. 847.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled
a ory incorporate the Ballston railroad company, approved February
, 1900.

Approved Mareh 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Ballston railroad com-
pany, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That J. K. M. Norton, John T. Carter, C. H. Yoke, Joseph
Broders, and J. M. Hill, or such of them as may accept the provisions
of this act, their associates, successors, and assigns, be, and they are
hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, under
the name and style of the Ballston railroad company, and by that
name shall be known in law, and as such are authorized and empowered
to survey, locate, construct, equip, and operate a line of railroad, of
a narrow or broad gauge, from some point in Alexandria ‘county, on the
Potomac river, opposite the city of Washington; thence through the
county of Alexandria and city of Alexandria, and counties of Fairfax
and Prince William, to any point in either of the said counties of Fair-
fax or Prince William which the board of directors of said company may
designate. Full power and authority is hereby given to said company
to pass through any or all of said counties by any route the said com-
pany may adopt, and to pass through and over such street or streets
in the city of Alexandria as may be agreed upon by and between said
company and the city council of Alexandria.

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