Chap. 282.-—-An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to complete the
construction of State Highway No. 336 in the City of Richmond. [S B 201]

Approved March 20, 1942

Whereas, the City of Richmond on the twenty-first day of March,
nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, granted to the Commonwealth of
Virginia without cost the parcel of land in the City of Richmond bounded
by Broad Street, Capitol Street, Eleventh Street and Twelfth Street, for
the purpose of erecting thereon the State Library and Supreme Court
of Appeals Building, which building has been erected ; and

Whereas, in consideration of such grant the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia undertook to construct a State Highway in the then County of
Chesterfield from the corporate limits of the City of Richmond to it:
water terminal situated on the James River, four miles below the City oi
Richmond ; and

Whereas, one mile of said highway has been completed and three
miles partially completed which has been designated State Highway
number three hundred and thirty-six ; and

Whereas, the territory through which said highway has been con.
structed was annexed to the City of Richmond on the first day of Janu
ary, nineteen hundred and forty-two, thus necessitating a special act o:
legislature in order to comply with said agreement ; and

Whereas, it is the desire of the Commonwealth of Virginia tc
authorize the State Highway Commission to complete the construction 0:
said highway should it deem it proper so to do,

Now, Therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the Stat
Highway Commission be and it is hereby authorized to complete th
construction of State Highway number three hundred and thirty-six, if
in its discretion, it deems proper so to do, and to pay the cost thereof out
of such funds coming into its hands as it may allocate for the purpose.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.