Chap. 218.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Citizens Railway, Light and Power Company, approved Feb-
ruary 9, 1900.

Approved March 15, 1902.

Whereas, at a special meeting of the board of supervisors of Warwick
county held at the courthouse thereof on Friday, the twenty-second dav
of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, on petition of the Peninsula
Electric Light and Power Company, the board of supervisors conferred
on said company the right to erect their poles and construct their plant
along the public roads, streets, and highways of said county, at the village
of Newport News, before the incorporation thereof, in such manner as to
least interfere with the use of the same by the public in traveling along
the said public roads, streets, and highways; and,

Whereas, the said Peninsula Electric Light and Power Company there-
after, in the conduct of its business, erected poles and strung its wires
along the public roads, streets, and highways of said county, at the vil-
lage of Newport News; and,

Whereas, the act incorporating the city of Newport News, approved
January the sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, section one hun-
dred and sixteen, conferred the existing use and rights of all telephone,
telegraph, electric light and power and street railway companies using
the public roads, streets, and highways of said city at the time of its incor-
poration ; and,

Whereas, the Citizens Railway, Light and Power Company, under and
by authority of an act incorporating the same, approved February the
ninth, nineteen hundred, purchased the property, rights, and privileges
and franchises, including the right to be a corporation of the said Penin-
sula Electric Light and Power Company, and continued and extended its
business in the city of Newport News: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Citizens Railway, Light
and Power Company, approved February the ninth, ninetcen hundred,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. The company hereby incorporated may acquire by lease, pur-
chase, subscription to, or purchase of, the capital stock, or otherwise, the
works, tracks, property, franchises, rights, privileges, and immunities,
including the right to be a corporation, of the Peninsula Railway Com-
pany and the Chesapeake and Hampton Roads Railway Company, both
incorporated by the general assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and organized under the laws
of Virginia, and other like companies chartered under the laws of this
State: and may own, buy, sell, lease, use, operate, maintain, and extend
the same; and power is hereby conferred upon the Peninsula Railway
Company and the Chesapeake and Hampton Roads Railway Com-
pany, and other like companies chartered under the laws of this
State, to transfer, by sale or lease, all their works, tracks, property, fran-
chises, rights, privileges, and immunities, including the right to be a
corporation, to the company hereby incorporated, or to unite and con-
solidate with it upon such terms as may be agreed upon between them ;
and the said company hereby incorporated may acquire by lease, purchase,
subscription to, or purchase of, the capital stock, or otherwise, the works,
plant. poles, wires, subways, conduits, pipes, mains, and other property,
franchises, rights, privileges, and immunities, including the right to
be a corporation, of any other light or power company or companies, or
of any company or companies incorporated for the purpose of manufac-
turing, generating, using, selling, or purchasing electricity or gas, or
having the power so to do, for light, heat, or power; and the company
hereby incorporated may own, buy, sell, lease, use, operate, maintain, and
extend the same; and the company hereby incorporated may unite and
consolidate with such other company or companies upon such terms as
mav be agreed upon between them; and power is hereby conferred upon
cuch other light and power company or companies to transfer, by sale or
lease. all their works, plants, and other property, franchises, rights.
privileges, and immunities, including the right to be a corporation, to
the company hereby incorporated, or to unite and consolidate with it
upon such terms as may be agreed upon between them. The rights, privi-
lere, and franchise granted to the Peninsula Electric Light and Power
Company by the hoard of supervisors of Warwick county, Virginia. by
resolution adopted on the twenty-second day of May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-one, to crect its poles and string its wires for the conduct of
its business on and along the public roads, streets, and highways of said
county, at the village of Newport News, which said roads, streets, and
highways were afterwards incorporated into the city of Newport News,
and all work done, from time to time, thereunder by said company, or its
successors, are hereby ratified and confirmed to the Citizens Railway,
Light and Power Company, successor to said Peninsula Electric Light
and Power Company, which shall have, and is hereby, vested with the
right and power to conduct its business under said franchise in the city
of Newport News, and to erect its poles on and string its wires along
the said public roads, streets, and highways in said citv as the necessity
and growth of its business may, from time to time, demand. The said
company hereby incorporated may purchase or otherwise acquire and hold
the stock and bonds of any other company or corporation chartered under
the laws of this or other States; and it may acquire and hold, by pur-
chase, lease, or in any other manner, the plant, works, or other property
of any company, firm, or individual now engaged or which may here-
after engage in a similar business in any place or places, cities, towns, or
villages in the said counties of Elizabeth City and Warwick, and may
acquire and hold, or afterwards sell, any other property necessary to the
conduct of the business of the said company hereby incorporated, and may
make payment for such railways, plants, works, franchises, rights, or
other property in money or by issuing its bonds, notes, or stock therefor.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.