Chap. 237.—An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Ocean View
pleasure pier company.

Approved February 15, 1901.

Whereas the corporation court of the city of Norfolk did, on the
twenty-third day of March, in the year nineteen hundred, grant a char-
ter of incorporation to the Ocean View pleasure pier company, which
was duly lodged in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth as
follows:

Virginia:

In the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, before the Honorable

Alan R. Hanckel, judge of the said corporation court:

This day came J. W. Perry, James 8. Groves, H. L. Page, M. W. Burk,
and T. C. White, who have duly made, signed, and acknowledged before
a notary public the certificate in writing hereto attached, and presented
the same to the court.

Upon reading and maturely considering the said certificate, and the
application of the said persons therein made, the court doth adjudge.
order and deeree that a charter of incorporation be, and hereby is, granted
to the said J. W. Perry, James S. Groves, H. L. Page, M. W. Burk and
T. C. White, and such other persons as are now or may hereafter be
associated with them, their successors and assigns, and they are hereby
created a body, politic and corporate, under and by the name of Ocean
View pleasure pier company, and as such shall have all the general pow-
ers, and be subject to all the general restrictions conferred and imposed.
and be governed by the provisions of chapters forty-six and forty-seven
of the code of Virginia, of eighteen hundred and ecighty-seven, so far
as they are applicable and not inconsistent with this charter.

Second. The purposes for which said company is formed shall be to
erect, build, establish, and maintain, manage, control and conduct a
pleasure pier at Ocean View, in the county of Norfolk, Virginia, for the
entertainment, comfort, health and convenient use and enjoyment of all
such persons as may desire to visit the same, upon paying the said com-
pany reasonable charges for admission thereto, and to that end to do all
things as the company may deem expedient for laying out, extending,
constructing, beautifying, and lighting the said pier, and to furnish
thereon at reasonable rates such attractions, conveniences, means and
facilities for bathing, fishing, sailing, and such other amusements, sports,
plays and games as the company may direct, and as are usually found at
seaside resorts.

Third. The capital stock of the said company shall not be less than
thirty thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars, and shall
be divided into shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each. The
company shall have power to determine how subscriptions to its capital
stock shall be received, and no notice of the time or place of receiving
such subscriptions to its capital stock shall be received, and no notice of
the time or place of receiving such subscriptions shall be necessary.

Fourth. The amount of real estate to be held by the said company
shall not exceed one thousand acres of land.

Fifth. The place at which the principal office of the said company is
to be kept, and its chief business transacted, shall be in the city of Nor-
folk, Virginia.

Sixth. The names and residences of the officers, who for the first year
are to manage the affairs of the said company, are as follows:

J. W. Perry, president, Norfolk, Virginia; J. S. Groves, vice-president
and general manager, Norfolk, Virginia: H. lL. Page, secretary and
treasurer, Norfolk, Virginia; which said three, together with the follow-
ing-named persons, shall be the board of directors—namely: M. W. Burk,
a director, Norfolk, Virginia; T. S. Garnett, a director, Norfolk, Vir-
ginia; J. T. White, a director, Norfolk, Virginia; R. J. Camp, a direc-
tor, Franklin, Virginia; T. C. White, a director, Norfolk, Virginia.

The said company shall have the power to purchase and otherwise
acquire the stock of any other company or companies, and for the erec-
tion. construction, maintenance, or improvement of any of its property
or to carry out its purposes, may raise money by negotiating loans. and
secure the payment thereof by sale, pledge or mortgage of anv of its
property, and may issue its bonds and secure the payment of the same by
a deed of trust upon all its property, rights and franchises, as it may deem
expedient.

And the said company shall have power to make all such by-laws, rules
and regulations as it may deem necessary for the conduct of its affairs,
and for the management, government and maintenance of good order in
and about its said property and premises.
All taxes and other demands due to the state of Virginia by the com-
pany shall be paid in current money of the United States.

ALAN R. HANCKEL,
Judge of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk.

Virginia:

In the clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, on
the twenty-third day of March, nineteen hundred:

The foregoing charter of incorporation of Ocean View pleasure pier
company was this day received and duly recorded, and is hereby certified
to the secretary of the commonwealth for record in his office according to
law.

L. ROYSTER, Clerk.
[Ten-cent internal revenue stamp. ]

And whereas it is deemed desirable to have ratified and confirmed the
said charter of the Ocean View pleasure pier company; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
charter of the Ocean View pleasure pier company be, and the same is,
hereby ratified and confirmed.

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