Chap. 547.—An ACT to change the name of the Virginia and Louisa Improve
ment Company to the Virginia and Louisa Railway and Improvement Company,
and to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 6 of chapter 268 of the acts of assem-
bly of the extra session of 1901, entitled “an act to incorporate the Virginia
and Louisa Improvement Company,” approved February 16, 1901.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections one
and six of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight of the acts of assembly of
the extra session of nineteen hundred and one, entitled “an act to incor-
porate the Virginia and Louisa Improvement Company,” approved Feb-
ruary sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W. E.
Bibb, J. E. Bibb, L. A. Walker, J. I’. Walker, and J. F. Bickers, their
associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted and made a
body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Virginia and
Louisa Railway and Improvement Company, and by that name and style
shall have all the privileges, rights, and powers conferred by, and be sub-
ject to all.the provisions of the general law of this State in reference to
corporations and chartered companies, so far as the same may be appli-
cable and not inconsistent with this act.

§ 6. The said company is hereby authorized and empowered to buy,
build or have built, own and run freight and charter vessels, barges, and
boats propelled by sail, steam, or any other manner, and to establish all
necessary wharves and landing places. And the purchase or condemna-
tion of any property required by it for railway purposes shall be deemed
as for a public use. And the said company is further authorized to carry
freight on any lines of street railway owned or operated by it, and any
railway or railways constructed or operated by virtue of this charter shall
be, and they are hereby, declared to be common carriers, and shall be sub-
ject to all the duties thereof. The said company may also acquire, by pur-
chase from any company or corporation now ‘loing business in Virginia,
any or all of its assets, including its franchises, rights to be a cor-
poration, and any company or corporation doing business in Vir-
ginia is hereby authorized to sell its assets of any description, in-
cluding its franchises and rights to be a corporation, to this company.

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