Chap. 432.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1079 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to proceedings for ascertaining the value of land wanted for the pur-
pose of any internal improvement company, county, city, town, institution, or
asylum, and providing for the vesting of an interest or estate in land less than
the fee in certain cases.

Approved March 29, 1902.

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

§ 1079. Proceedings of court in report, and receipt for the money as-
certained to be a just compensation; how title to land vested.—The said
report and the certificate of the justice shall be forthwith returned to the
court of the county or corporation, and unless good cause be shown
against the report the same shall be confirmed and recorded. The sum
<o ascertained to be a just compensation may be paid to the persons entitled
thereto or into court, and the receipt for the same, when witnessed by
iwo witnesses or acknowledged by a person duly authorized to take ac-
knowledgments, shall be recorded by the clerk of the court, and both the
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report and the receipt, when so recorded, duly indexed by said clerk.
Upon such payment the title to that part of the land for which such com-
pensation is allowed shall be absolutely vested in the company, county, city,
town, institution, or asylum in fee simple, except in the case of a turn-
pike company, where a sufficient right of way only for the purposes of
such company shall be vested, and except also in the case of any other
company incorporated for a work of internal improvement, where, if the
notice of the application to the court shall specify or describe any interest
or estate in the land less than the fee simple, only such interest or estate
as shall be so specified or described in the notice shall be vested.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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