Chap. 12.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 1414 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
reenact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved January 15, 1900;
and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact section 1414 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 8, 1900, and as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 1414 of tne Code of Virginia, approved January 2, 1904.

Approved February 9, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
ye-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and ‘re-enact section four-
teen hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, approved January
fifteenth, nineteen hundred, and as amended and re-enacted by an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section fourteen hundred and four-
teen of the Code of Virginia, approved March third, nineteen hundred,
and as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section fourteen hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia,
approved January second, nineteen hundred and four, be amended and
re-enacted to read as follows:

§1414. Location of cemeteries; limitation as to quantity of land.—
Nothing contained in the four preceding sections shall be so construed ax
to authorize any cemetery to be hereafter established in the corporate
limits of any city or town, or within one hundred yards of any residence,
without the consent of the owner of such residence; or to authorize the
conveyance of more than three hundred or the condemnation of more
than two acres of land for use of a cemetery, but when damage is done to
adjacent lands by the establishment of such cemetery, whether estab-
lished by purchase of land or condemnation proceedings, the owners
whose lands have been damaged shall have right of action against any
person, firm, corporation or municipality establishing said cemetery, said
action to be instituted within one year from the establishment of such
cemetery.

2. Owing to the fact that there is a lack of burial facilities in the city
of Norfolk, the general assembly declares an emergency to exist, und.
therefore, this act shall be in force from its passage.