Chap. 435.—An ACT to authorize the State Highway Commission to acquire certain
roads, streets, rights of way and other additional land in Arlington county, and
to construct thereon State highways which will become parts of the primary
system of State highways, and, when one of such highways is opened for traffic,
to transfer to the County of Arlington a portion of State Route 237 to be
included in the county highways of the said county. [H B 463]

Approved April 6, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
State Highway Commission be authorized and empowered as follows:

(a) To acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift or otherwise, the
abandoned right of way of the Arlington-Fairfax Railway Company in
the County of Arlington, extending from Lee Highway Route two hun-
dred and eleven in East Falls Church, a distance of approximately three
and seventy-hundredths (3.70) miles to Mile Post three and ten-hun-
dredths (3.10) at the intersection of State Route two hundred and thirty-
seven and Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon, together with any additional
rights of way and adjacent land necessary for the purpose, and to con-
struct thereon a State highway which shall become a part of the primary
system of State highways, and shall be designated as State Route two
hundred and thirty-seven.

(b) When the State highway authorized to be constructed under
paragraph (a) hereof is opened for traffic, to transfer to the County of
Arlington for incorporation into the system of county roads, that part of
the present State Route two hundred and thirty-seven (Washington
Boulevard) which extends from Mile Post seven (7.00) at the intersec-
tion of said route and Lee Highway Route two hundred and eleven in
East Falls Church a distance of approximately four (4.00) miles to Mile
Post three and ten-hundredths (3.10) miles at the intersection of said
Route two hundred and thirty-seven and Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon.