Chap. 122.—An ACT to permit the Portsmouth and Cornland telephone com-
pany to extend and operate a telephone line from Deep Creek, etc.

Approved February 18, 1901.

Whereas on the fourteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and
nincty-six, the circuit court of Norfolk county, Virginia, did grant unto
the Portsmouth and Cornland telephone company a charter of incorpo-
ration, with full power and authority to build, establish, construct, own,
maintain and operate a telephone system or systems in the state of
Virginia and North Carolina, and generally to conduct a telephone
business in said states, or either of them, with any and all lawful
necessary or useful in the effectual carrving out of the purpose for which
it is chartered; and
Whereas to the power vested in it, the said Portsmouth and Cornland
telephone company has constructed and is now operating a telephone
system in the county of Norfolk; and

Whereas the said company is desirous of extending and operating a
telephone and telegraph line from Deep creek, in the county of Norfolk,
to the North Carolina line, and of acquiring the necessary right of way
for the same; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the Ports-
mouth and Cornland telephone company be, and it is, hereby authorized
to construct and equip a telephone and telegraph line from Deep creek,
in the county of Norfolk, in the southerly direction, to the North Caro-
lina line; and it is further authorized and empowered, in locating its
said line, to contract and agree with the Lake Drummond eanal and
water company for a right of way for its poles and wires along the outer
edge of the canal bank on the eastern bank, belonging to said Lake
Drummond canal and water company, in the county of Norfolk; and in
case of disagreement as to the amount to be paid to said Lake Drum-
mond canal and water company for said right of way, the said Ports-
mouth and Cornland telephone company shall have the right to con-
demn said right of way, in the manner prescribed by the forty-sixth
chapter of the code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven.

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