CHAP. 259.--An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1375 of the Code of Virginia.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section thirteen hundred and seventy-five of the Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1375. A person, firm or corporation desiring to establish a ferry across any water course, whether it be a stream bounding the State or not, who owns, or has contracted for the use of, land at the point at which it is proposed to establish the same, may, after publishing notice of his, their, or its intention at the front door of the court house, and at two or more public places, in the county, near the point at which it is proposed to establish the same, for fifteen days preceding the first day of the term, apply to the circuit court of the county, or one of the counties, in which it is proposed, to establish such ferry, for leave to establish the same.