CHAP. 91.--An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 16, 1886, entitled an act to allow Wm. H. Ellis to erect a wharf at Franklin city, Accomac county.
Approved February 3, 1888.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That William H. Ellis, of Accomac county, be and he hereby is authorized to erect a wharf at Franklin city in said county, on Chincoteague bay, for the purpose of shipping oysters and any other commodities to and from the same for himself and others, starting at the front northwest corner of Edwin T. Melvin, Frank J. Melvin, Peter R. W. Collins, and Milby Hancock's wharf line, eight feet southeast of the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia railroad company's barrel-house, extending about southwest in Chincoteague bay four hundred feet between parallel lines of fifty feet from point of beginning; and the said William H. Ellis, his heirs and assigns, shall have the right to charge such compensation for the use of said wharf as may have been agreed upon by and between the parties or as is usual: provided, that the said wharf shall not interfere with navigation: and provided also, that this act shall at all times be under the control of the general assembly, and be amended or repealed as may be deemed proper. May erect a wharf
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2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencem't