Chap. 239.—An ACT to validate certain land grants and to limit certale ee
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Approved March 25, 1946

Whereas, under the provisions of chapter twenty-seven of the Code
of Virginia the Honorable Harry Flood Byrd, then Governor of this
Commonwealth, executed a certain land grant under authority of law,
to one Charles Kicherer under date of August twenty-six, nineteen
hundred twenty-seven, which deed of grant is more fully set out as
follows: -

Commonwealth of
Virginia.

to

Charles Kicherer

Office of the Secretary of the Comonwealth
Harry F. Byrd, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth

of Virginia
To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

Know ye, that in conformity with a survey made on the tenth
day of January, one thousand nine hundred twenty-seven, under auth-
ority of land office treasury warrant number thirty-two thousand three
hundred sixty-seven, there 1s granted by the said Commonwealth unto
Charles Kicherer a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being within
the corporate limits of the city of Alexandria, and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a point marked by a stake on the north shore line of
Great Hunting Creek in the line of division between Charles Kicherer
and the Baggett estate in an easterly direction to a cedar post in the
corporation line, thence in a southeasterly direction and along the cor-
poration line to a point one hundred feet west of the highway bridge
crossing Great Hunting Creek, thence in a northeasterly direction paral-
lel to said highway, thence to a cedar post and thence in a straight line
in a northerly direction to the shore line of the Great Hunting Creek,
thence following the said shore line to the point of beginning, containing
twenty-six and nineteen hundred seven (26.1907) acres.

To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appur-
tenances to the said Charles Kicherer and his heirs forever.

In witness whereof, the said Harry F. Byrd, Governor of the Com-
monwealth of Virginia hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the lesser
seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Richmond, on the twenty-
sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-seven and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and fifty-
second.

Seal Harry F. Byrd, Governor,
and

Whereas, certain doubts have arisen concerning this grant and the
interests, and extent thereof, so granted ; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Each and every land grant made during the years nineteen
hundred twenty-six through nineteen hundred thirty, both inclusive,
shall be, and the same are hereby, as valid as if all requirements of the
law concerning such grants had been complied with. All right, title
and interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia in and to all lands men-
tioned in such grants whether or not the boundaries contained more land
than the quantity mentioned in any such grant is hereby granted to and
confirmed in the respective grantees under such grants and persons
holding under them.

No suit, action or other proceeding shall be brought on or after
September one, nineteen hundred forty-six involving any interest in
land covered by any such grant, adverse to the grantees to whom same
has been made or those holding under them.