Chap. 203.—An ACT to sell the Commons in the Town of Woodstock,
Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be
lawful for the corporate authorities of said town to institute
suit in the circuit court of said county, for the sale of any
real estate held or used by such town as common, with a
view to the conversion of the same into money, to be used
for the promotion of the public interests of said town, or to
secure a fee simple title thereto for the use of the same.

‘2. In bringing such suit, the parties interested in the re-
version in such common, shall be made defendants by the
general designation of reversionery, interested as such in said
common. The process shall be sufficiently served upon them
by a publication for four successive weeks in some newspaper
published in said town or county, and in all other respects
shall be proceeded with as other suits in chancery under ex-
isting laws.
3. The money arising from such sale, if any, above the
costs of suit and sale, shall be distributed by the court be-
tween said town and said reversionery, as may seem to it
right under all the circumstances of the case, directing the
portions ascertained to be due to the reversioners, if any, to

9e paid into the hands of the general receiver of the court,

unless the cause shall be in such condition to make distribu-
tion to them, when, and as the payment shall be made by the
purcbaser.

4. If, any portion of such fund shall remain undistributed
atthe end of years, from the time the same is paid into
the hands of said receiver, the court may, upon the applica-
tion of the said authorities of said town, order the same to
be paid over to them as the property of said town, to be
used by them as their portion of the said sale money is au-
thorized to-be used.

_5. This act shall be in force from its passage.