Chap. 151.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act to amend and re-
enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton Park Railway
Company, approved March 7, 1900, approved February 15, 1901.

Became law without Governor’s signature March 11, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section seven
of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Westhampton Park Railway
Company, approved March seventh, nineteen hundred,” approved Feb-
ruary fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 7. Said company hereby incorporated may take and acquire, by pur-
chase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, and hold and thereafter sell,
lease, or otherwise dispose of lands or any rights or easements therein
for its railways, stations, yards, side-tracks, shops, power-houses, and
parks not exceeding thirty acres; and the said company shall also have
the right to acquire, by purchase, grant, gift, or lease, and hold lands
not exceeding ten acres in each of said cities, nor more than one thousand
acres in each of said counties; and it is hereby empowered and authorized
to hold the same and to devote to the purposes above mentioned, or to
such other purposes as are related to or may be connected therewith ; and
the said company is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, ac-
quire, hold, sell, lease, and convey lands, and interests in lands, in each
of said counties and cities, to the extent as above mentioned, and to con-
struct thereon, operate, lease, and sell hotels, dwellings, stores, or other
buildings, and otherwise use, develop, and improve the same; to provide,
locate, purchase, erect, and maintain all works necessary for the furnish-
ing of gas and electric light and power, water or pipe lines to any sub-
division or town laid out upon its lands so acquired by it; but shall not
be empowered hereby to construct or operate any railway, or to erect any
poles or alter superstructure, or to furnish electric current for heat,
power, or light in any incorporated city or town without first having
obtained the consent and authority of the city or town council of such
city or town to do so; and to lay out any of its said lands in lots or par-
cels, with sewers, streets, alleys, or parks; and to work, improve, and
develop the same; and to lease, sell, and dispose of the same, and the pro-
ceeds thereof, as the said company may think proper; and to contract for,
purchase, lease, hold, construct, operate, and maintain any work of in-
ternal improvement within the limits of the lands owned by said com-

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