Chap. 265.—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 pro-
ceedings 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, as heretofore amended, 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 368]

Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion 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 pur-
poses,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and _thirty-
two, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Section 3. Subject to the provisions of this act, the State Com-
mission 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 doman in condemnation pro-
ceedings 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 property 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 (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 established as a State park. In the event, however,
that the said area, or any part thereof, is established as a national
military park, National historical park or National historical monu-
ment 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.