Chap. 307.—An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to establish under-
ground drainage in a thirty-foot canal extending from Smith’s creek to
Yarmouth street, to close the said canal and use it for park and highway
purposes, and to vest the city of Norfolk with the title of the State of
Virginia therein. [H B 300]

Approved March 20, 1922.

Whereas the board of harbor commissioners for Norfolk, Ports-
mouth and Norfolk county, on July eighteenth, nineteen hundred and
two, established a thirty-foot canal running from Smith’s creek, in
the city of Norfolk, Virginia, in a southwesterly direction to Yar-
mouth street, for the purpose of enabling the city of Norfolk to
drain the territory contiguous to said drain, bounded by Dunmore
street, York street and Yarmouth street; and

Whereas, the council of the city of Norfolk desires to establish
an under ground culvert in said canal and to close and fill in said
canal for the purpose of parking the same or using the same for a
public highway, because of the unsanitary condition of the said canal ;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
council of the city of Norfolk is hereby authorized to construct an
underground system of drainage in the said thirty-foot canal, through-
out its entire length, and to close said canal, throughout its entire
length, and that all right, title and interest of the State of Virginia
in said canal and the bed thereof is hereby vested in the city of
Norfolk, in order that the same may be converted into a street or
parkway, as to the council of the city of Norfolk may seem best.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.