Chap. 8.—An ACT to authorize the Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge
Company, Incorporated, to cross, maintain and operate a public toll
bridge and road across certain lowlands, marshes and meadows in
the county of Accomac. : [H B 12]

Approved September 4, 1919.

Whereas the Chincoteague Toll’ Road and Bridge Company,
Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of Virginia, is desirous of building and constructing a toll
road and bridge, connecting the island of Chincoteague, in Ac-
comac county, with the mainland of said county at a point on
the farm of William Hickman, in Wallop’s Neck, in said county,
and,

_ Whereas said road will cross Chincoteague marsh, Cockle
creek, Queen’s sound, and other lowlands, marshes and meadows
and certain small creeks and streams, making up therein, lying
between said Chincoteague island and the mainland of said
county, and :

Whereas the title to such lowlands, marshes and meadow
is in the State of Virginia, the same being ungranted and un-
patented waste lands.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company, Incorpo-
rated, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered
to build, erect and construct, preserve and maintain, a toll road
and bridge across Chincoteague marsh, Cockle creek, Queen’s
sound, and any and all other lowlands, marshes and meadows,
and the creeks, streams or streamlets intersecting the same, by
whatever name, or names, said lowlands, marshes and meadows,
or said creeks, streams or streamlets are known, lying between
Chincoteague island, in Accomac county, and Atlantic magis-
teria] district, on the mainland in said county, and the said
Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company, Incorporated, is
hereby given and granted any and all rights necessary and need-
ful for the building, erection and construction of said proposed
toll road and bridge and for the maintenance, preservation and
repair thereof.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
8. The said Chincoteague Toll Road and Bridge Company,
1corporated, desiring to begin the construction of said toll road
nd bridge at once, an emergency is declared to exist and this
ct shall be in force from its passage. :