Chap. 121.—An ACT to incorporate the Riverside avenue company.

Approved February 13, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That A. C.
Cromwell, George Lindsay, John Wariner, D. M. Mardin, and EK. F.
Cromwell, and such of them as may accept the provisions of this act,
and such other persons as may be hereafter associated with them, their
successors and assigns, be, and hereby are, incorporated and made a body,
politie and corporate, under the name and style of the Riverside avenue
company; and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal, which it may alter and amend at pleasure, and sue
and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and be generally invested
with all the rights and privileges appertaining to incorporated bodies
under the laws of the state of Virginia and of the United States, and
subject to the restrictions now imposed upon the same by the general
assembly of the state of Virginia, and upon the further condition that
it shall pay in current money of the United States all taxes and demands
due by it to the state of Virginia.

2. The capital stock of the said company shall not exceed five thousand
dollars, and be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. The incorpo-
rators abave mentioned, or a majority of them, may receive subscription
to the capital stock on such terms as they may deem best, and no adver-
ticement of the time or place at which the books of the company shah
be open for subscriptions shall be necessary.

3. The officers of the company shall be a president and such other
officers as the by-laws may prescribe. Upon the subscription of the mini-
mum capital stock, five hundred dollars, without notice of time or place,
a stockholders’ meeting may be held. Upon the election of a president
and a board of directors the company shall be deemed to be organized.

4. The company shall have the right to open up and maintain an
avenue, not less than twenty nor more than eighty feet in width, from
some point on Church street, Norfolk county, to some point on Little
creek, or from any point to any point between the said two points, and
shall have the right to acquire its right of way by either purchase, gift,
lease, or condemmation. It shall have the right, with consent of the
owner of the soil, to use any road running in the same direction, which
has been thrown open to the publie, though not legally dedicated. It
shall have the right to erect, acquire, and maintain bridges ; and by and
with the consent of the supervisors of Norfolk county, use any publie
road running in the same direction as the proposed avenue. It shall
have the right to cross at grade by condemnation or purchase any turn-
pike.

5. The said company shall have the right to open and maintain one
or more branch roads or avenues of not more than three thousand feet
in length through the lands of any person or persons consenting thereto,
and in running such branches the company shall have the right to con-
demn for its use crossing of turnpike companies.

6. The company shall have the right to charge reasonable tolls for
bridges and avenues; but it shall not ‘charge any toll for the use of any
public road which it may use with the consent of the supervisors, nor
for the use of any road now open to the public running in the same
direction, though not legally dedicated.

7%. The proper maintenance of the public roads and of the roads now
open to the public, which are not legally dedicated, and for which this
company cannot charge tolls, shal] not be a charge upon this company.

8. The principal oflice shall be in Norfolk county, Virginia.

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