An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1872/1873 |
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Law Number | 120 |
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Chap. 120.—An ACT giving the Consent of this State to the Purchase by
the United States of Two Tracts of Land in the Counties of Henrico
and Hanover, to be used for Military Cemeteries, and Exempting the
same from State and County Taxes.
Approved March 7, 1873.
Whereas, it is represented by Theo. J. Eckerson, captain
and assistant quartermaster, that he is instructed by the
quartermaster-general of the United States army to apply to
this general assembly for its consent to the purchase by the
authorities of the United States of two tracts of land, now
occupied as military cemeteries, and that, according to his de-
scription of said tracts of land, they are laid down and bounded
as follows:
First. A certain lot or parcel of land, situate, lying and being
in the county of Henrico and state of Virginia, containing one
and forty-four one-thousandth acres, and being the tract con-
veyed to the United States by Mattie E. Cox and Francis E.
Cox, by deed dated May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and bounded as follows, to wit: on the north by
land formerly owned by Alpheus W. Childrey, and conveyed
by him to the United States for a national cemetery; on the
east by the Varina road; on the south by property belonging
to the said Mattie E. and Francis EK. Cox; and on the west by
land belonging to the said Mattie E. and Francis E. Cox, and
Alpheus W. Childrey.
Second. A certain lot or parcel of land, lying and being in
the township of Henry, county of Hanover and state of Vir-
ginia, containing three-fourths of an acre, more or less, and
being the tract conveyed to the United States by Miles Garth-
wright and Margaret E. his wife, and Gustavus Lange, by
deed dated the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, and being a strip of land five feet wide, imme-
diately adjoining and extending around three sides of the Cold
Harbor national cemetery, to wit, the north, east and west
sides of said cemetery: therefore,
_ 1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the consent of this state is hereby given to the purchase of
said lands by the government of the United States of America,
to be occupied and used as a national military cemetery, and
for this purpose only. But this consent is given subject to
the following terms and conditions, to wit:
First. That this state retains concurrent jurisdiction with
the United States over the said tracts of land, so that courts,
magistrates and officers of this state may take such cognizance,
execute such process, and discharge such other legal functions
within the same as may not be Jnoompatiols with the consent
hereby given.
Second. That if the purposes of these grants should cease,
or there should be, for five years consecutively, a failure on the
part of the United States to use said places, or either of them,
for said purpose, then the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall cease
and determine as to the place so failing to be used, and the
same shall revert to the commonwealth of Virginia.
The said tracts of land, and the buildings that may be
erected thereon, for the purpose aforesaid, and any property of
the United States for said purposes on said tracts, are hereby
exempted from all taxes imposed by this state, or by the con-
stituted authorities of the counties of Henrico or Hanover;
but this exemption shall continue only so long as the United
States shall be and remain the owners of said military ceme-
teries,
, 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.