Chap. 266.—An ACT to confirm and ratify the action of the councils of the city
of Norfolk in closing up and relinquishing title toa part of the so-called
Duke-street canal. .

Approved February 7, 1896.

_Whereas the councils of the 9 city of Norfolk did—the select coun-

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mon council, February fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five—by
an aye and nay vote, pass a resolution closing up and relinquishing
all right, claim, or title, which the city might possess, in a certain
so-called canal, commonly known as the Duke-street canal, between
Yarmouth street extended and Freemason street, which is a point
fore two hundred feet south of the said Freemason street: there-
ore

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the ac-
tion of the said councils of the city of Norfolk is hereby ratified and
confirmed, and the property-owners along the said so-called canal are
hereby empowered to fill-in, drain, and otherwise improve the lands
lying between the said points.

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