Chap. 257.—An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Alleghany
Railroad Company to ext-nd the water-works dam at Lynchburg,
and to condemn such lands as may be necessary to enable it to do so

Approved March f, 1882.

Whereas it is deemed necessary in order that a due supply
of water may be furnished the reservoirs of the city 0
Lynchburg, and that additional water-power may be supplie
to the canal level at said city for purposes of manufacture
that the dam at said city across the southwestern arm of
the James river, known as the water-works dam, and which
is situated in or near said city, be raised and extended
entirely across said James river; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company be and
hereby is authorized and empowcred to construct a dam
across James river by raising and extending what is known
as the water-works dam at or near Lynchburg, and to draw
water from the pond created by the same for the purpose of
supplying its canal on the level below the same; but in con-
structing said dam, said company shall conform to all exist-
ing laws in regard to the erection of fishways thereover.

2. That to the extent which it may be necessary to enable
it properly to construct said dam, and the pond which may
be created thereby, the said company shall have power to
condemn all land necessary for its purposes: provided that
in making such condemnation said company shall conform
to and be controlled by the law prescribing the mode of con-
demning lands for the purposes of internal improvement and
other corporations in the fifty-sixth chapter of the Code of
Virginia.

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

Chap. 257.—An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Alleghany
Railroad Company to ext-nd the water-works dam at Lynchburg,
and to condemn such lands as may be necessary to enable it to do so

Approved March f, 1882.

Whereas it is deemed necessary in order that a due supply
of water may be furnished the reservoirs of the city 0
Lynchburg, and that additional water-power may be supplie
to the canal level at said city for purposes of manufacture
that the dam at said city across the southwestern arm of
the James river, known as the water-works dam, and which
is situated in or near said city, be raised and extended
entirely across said James river; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the Richmond and Alleghany railroad company be and
hereby is authorized and empowcred to construct a dam
across James river by raising and extending what is known
as the water-works dam at or near Lynchburg, and to draw
water from the pond created by the same for the purpose of
supplying its canal on the level below the same; but in con-
structing said dam, said company shall conform to all exist-
ing laws in regard to the erection of fishways thereover.

2. That to the extent which it may be necessary to enable
it properly to construct said dam, and the pond which may
be created thereby, the said company shall have power to
condemn all land necessary for its purposes: provided that
in making such condemnation said company shall conform
to and be controlled by the law prescribing the mode of con-
demning lands for the purposes of internal improvement and
other corporations in the fifty-sixth chapter of the Code of
Virginia.

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