Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
authorizing the State Commission on Conservation and Development to acquire
by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or
by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means for the transfer of title, the
lands described therein, for public parks or for public park purposes, approved
March 23, 1932, so as to authorize the State Commission on Conservation and
Development under certain conditions to transfer said lands or a part thereof
to the United States of America. [S B 233]

Approved March 10, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act authorizing the State Commission on
Conservation and Development to acquire by the exercise of the right
of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or by gift, devise,
purchase or any other lawful means for the transfer of title, the lands
described therein, for public parks or for public park purposes, ap-
proved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. Subject to the provisions of this act, the State Commis-
sion on Conservation and Development is hereby expressly vested with
the power of eminent domain to condemn for use as a public park
or for public park purposes and to acquire title to all or any part of
the lands described in section two (2) hereof, including dwelling houses,
outbuildings, orchards, yards, gardens, and other improvements on
such lands, and all or any right, title, or interest in or to all or any
part of such lands, and the improvements thereon, by the exercise of
the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or by gift,
devise, purchase, or any other lawful means for the transfer of title;
provided, nevertheless, that in acquiring title to any of the said prop-
erty by condemnation proceedings or otherwise, the commission shall
have no authority to pledge the credit of the State or to incur any
indebtedness on behalf of itself or of the State. |

Title to all lands and interest in the lands included in the areas
described in section two (2) of this act, which may be acquired by the
State Commission on Conservation and Development under authority
of the provisions of this act shall be held by the commission in trust
for the Commonwealth of Virginia, if the area described in section two
of this act be estabished as a State park. In the event, however, that
the said area, or any part thereof, is established as a national military
park, the State Commission on Conservation and Development is hereby
authorized and empowered, by a proper deed or deeds signed by the
chairman of the said commission to convey the title to all such lands,
or to any part thereof, so acquired by them to the United States of
America.