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Volume | 1874 |
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Law Number | 322 |
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Law Body
Chap. 322.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 54 of Chapter 78
of the Code of 1878, in Relation to the Condemnation of Lands for
Schoolhouses. .
Approved April 80, 1874.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section c
sifty tour of chapter seventy-eight, Code of eighteen hundred ©
and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read a
as follows:
“§ 54. If, in the judgment of such school trustees, the pub- &
lic interests demand that a schoolhouse be located on a par- L
ticular spot, and no equitable arrangement for its purchase >
prove to be practicable, the board of trustees shall be autho-
rized, and it shall be its duty, to cause the desired parcel of
land to be surveyed by the county or other competent sur-
veyor, and a plat of the same to be filed, together with a
general statement of the case, with the clerk of the county
court; and thereupon shall ensue the same proceedings as
are prescribed to enable a company, county or town to take
land without the owner’s consent in sections six to twenty-
one inclusive of chapter fifty-six, or in any amendment of the
same, or other law providing for the condemnation of lands
for such purposes: provided, that no parcel of land thus con-
demned shall exceed forty square poles in a city, eighty square
poles in an incorporated town, or five acres in the country:
and provided, also, that no dwelling, yard, garden or orchard
shall be invaded, nor in an incorporated village any space
within one hundred feet of a dwelling, nor in the country
any space within four hundred yards of a mansion hou
without the consent of the owner: and provided further, that
if the land condemned, lying in a county outside of a city
oF neneperates town, shall cease to be used for the purpose
aforesaid for five years continuously, the title thereto shall
revert to the original owner, his heirs or assigns.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.