Chap. 161.—An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Avenue asso-
ciation.

Approved February 18, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Vir- |
ginia, That John B. Smoot, E. W. Fox, Jefferson Chandler,
M. B. Harlow, E. F. Beale, Jackson E. Sickles, Frank A.
Reed, N. W. Pearson, Stacy Snowden, J. T. Beckham, W. E.
Clarke, F. R. Windsor, Park Agnew, Frank Hume, George
Johnston, Warington Gillingham, H. A. Willard, W. M.
Galt, Doctor G. Wythe Cooke, D. A. Windsor, Harrison
Hatch, R. Portner, Walter Walton, Rozier Dulaney, H. H.
Wells, L. L. Blake, R. L. Lacey, Captain Lawton, Francis
Hufty, C. E. Stewart, J. Norman Gibbs, James M. Love, and
James W. Roberts, are hereby made and constituted a cor-
poration and body politic with power to increase the same,
under the name and style of the Mount Vernon avenue:
association, by which name this corporation shall be known,
and under which it may sue and be sued, contract and be
contracted with, within the scope of its power as a corpora-
tion, and shall have perpetual succession.

2. Said corporation shall have the power to acquire right |
of way by condemnation, donation, or purchase, for a public |
avenue and highway, not exceeding two hundred feet in
width, from some point south of the Aqueduct bridge on the |
northern boundary of the government park reservation or
cemetery known as Arlington, on the Potomac river; thence
through the county and city of Alexandria, passing through
Washington street of the said city of Alexandria, and through
the county of Fairfax to the grounds enclosing the tomb of
Washington, known as Mount Vernon, over the most practi-
cable route to be selected by the trustees of said corporation,
and to conduct and keep in repair a public avenue and high-
way thereon, and to adorn and beautify the same.

3. Said corporation shall be governed by the trustees.
herein named, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum,
and their successors in office. The said trustees or a quorum
thereof, shall have power to fill all vacancies happening in
their number by death, resignation, or otherwise.

4, Said association shall have power to receive subscrip- :
tions or contributions from the United States, the state of
Virginia, or any state or territory of the United States, or
any county, corporation, person, or municipality thereof, to
promote the accomplishment of the objects of this associa-
tion.

5. Whatever is received by the association from any
source, shall, without compensation to the trustees herein |
provided for, be expended to open, construct, build, keep in |
repair, and beautify the said avenue, and for such other
charges as the said trustees may approve and determine.

6. The city of Alexandria is hereby uuthorized to aid in

the construction of said avenue in the city of Alexandria, to
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the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid either
in cash or in the bonds ot said city, as the city of Alexan-
dria shall elect.

7. The counties of Alexandria and Fairfax are hereby and
each of them is authorized to aid in the construction of said
avenue, by issuing their respective bonds, not exceeding two
thousand dollars for each county per mile of said avenue, or
by contributing the same amount in cash.

8. The said corporation shall have power to condemn land,
as the power to condemn for public use is now defined and
exercised for public purposes under and by virtue of the
general laws of the state of Virginia, and in exercising said
power in condemning lands for said avenue and highway,
advantages and benefits accruing to the owner of adjoining
lands, whose land is condemned for said avenue and highway
by virtue of the increase in value of said adjoining lands,
shall be considered and deducted from any damage which
said party may sustain by virtue of the condenation proceed-
ings herein contemplated for the purpose of establishing said
avenue or highway. ;

9. Said trustees are hereby authorized to permit under
restrictions, regulations, conditions, and terms as said trus-
tees, or a quorum thereof deem advisable, such means as car-
rying passengers over said avenue as will not disturb the
enjoyment of said avenue by ordinary private vehicles and
carriages und means of travel: provided steam shall not be
used as a motive power for carrying passengers.

10. This association shall have jurisdiction and authority
to keep the peace on and over the said avenue, and power to
appoint special policeman, with the advice and consent of the
judge of the county or corporation courts in whose jurisdic-
tion they shall be employed, and said policeman shall have
and exercise the same powers now or hereafter conferred upon
constables and municipal police officers conferred by the
laws of the commonwealth of Virginia.

11. Said trustees shall make to the government of Vir-
ginia, a detailed annual report of the receipts and expendi-
tures of this association. ‘

12. The principal office of this association shall be in the
city of Alexandria, and its annual meetings shall be held in
said city on the last Tuesday in the month of May in each

ear.

13. All taxes, dues, or demands due the state, or to become
due by this company to the state of Virginia, shall be paid
in lawful currency of the United States and not in coupons.

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