Chap. 240.—An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled “an act to incorporat
the Elizabeth River Railroad Company,” approved December 20, 1901.

Approved March 17, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section on
of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Elizabeth River Railroac
Company,” approved December twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, be,
and hereby is, amended and re-enactd so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Edward
A. Buell, Alfred P. Thom, C. R. Johnson, Alvah H. Martin, and S. Q.
Collins, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate under the name of “the Elizabeth River Railroad
Company,” for the purpose of locating, constructing, equipping, main-
taining, and operating a railroad from a point to be selected by it on the
belt line railroad at or near and on the eastern side of the southern
branch of the Elizabeth river, in Norfolk county, Virginia, or from a
point to be selected by it on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river
and on the eastern side thereof, at or near the point where the said
southern branch is crossed by the said belt line railroad, or from a point
to be selected by it on the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, and
on the eastern side thereof, or on the eastern branch of the Elizabeth river
west of the line of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, or from
some point intermediate between the belt line railroad and one or other
of said river branches to a point to be selected by it, likewise on the
eastern side of the Elizabeth river opposite the present river terminal of
the Dismal Swamp railroad, or to any intermediate point, and by such
route as the board of directors of the company hereby created may select ;
and the said company may, in its discretion, extend its line to a junction
with the line of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company at a point
to be selected by it near the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal: provided,
however, that the said company shall not cross the eastern branch of the
Elizabeth river either by its main line or by any of its branches.

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