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 | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 421 |
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Law Body
Chap. 421.—An ACT to ascertain and establish the boundary line between the
state of Virginia and the state of North Carolina, so far as the said) boundary
line divides the county of Meeklenburg, in the state of Virginia, from: the
counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in the state of North Carolina, and
to reject the report of the commission appointed under act of the general
assembly, approved March 5, 1894.
Approved February 21, 1898,
Whereas by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved
March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled ‘‘ An act to as-
certain and estal, lish, by monuments or otherwise, the boundary line
between the state of Virginia and North Carolina, so far as the said
boundary line divides the county of Mecklenburg, in the state of Vir-
einia, from the counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in North
Carolina,’ the governor of Virginia was directed to appoint two com-
missioners to act with commissioners appointed, or to be appoited, by
the state of North Carolina, for the purpose of ascertaining and estab-
lishing, by monuments or otherwise, the boundary line between the
stute of Virginia and North Carolina, so far as the said boundary line
divides the county of Mecklenburg, in the state of Virginia, from the
counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in the state of North Caro-
lina; and
Whereas the governor of Virginia, pursuant to said act, on the fif-
teenth day of December, eighteen hundred and hinety- four, appointed
P. Read and J. W. Hendricks, of the county of Mecklenburg, as
such commissioners on the part of the state of Virginia, to act with
commissioners appointed by the state of North Carolina, to perform the
work set forth,in.said potp ahd
Whereas the said commissioners, S. P. Read and J. W. Hendricks,
submitted their report to the governor of Virginia on the fifth day of
January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and said report was by
the governor of Virginia submitted to the general assembly on the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as directed by said
act; and
Whereas it appears by the petitions and written statements of citizens
of the county of Mecklenburg that the boundary line designated by
said commissioners and set forth in their said report is not the true
boundary line between the state of Virginia and the state of North Caro-
lina, so far as said boundary line divides the county of Mecklenburg, in
the state of Virginia, from the counties of Granville, Warren and
Vance, in the state of North Carolina:
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
report of S. P. Read and J. W. Hendricks be, and the same is hereby,
rejected.
2. The governor of Virginia is directed to notify the governor of North
Carolina of this action of the general assembly in the premises.
3. The governor of Virginia shall appoint two commissioners to act
with commissioners to be appointed by the State of North Carolina; and
said commissioners so appointed by the governor of Virginia shall as-
certain and designate the true boundary line between the state of Vir-
ginia and the state of North Carolina, so far as said boundary line di-
vides the county of Mecklenburg, in the state of Virginia, from the
counties of Granville, Warren and Vance, in the state of North Caro-
lina.
4. Said commissioners to be so appointed by the governor of Virginia
shall have power to employ a competent engineer to survey said boun-
dary line; and they shall, before the next session of the general assembly
of Virginia, make report to the governor of Virginia of their procced-
ings and findings under this act, and shall file with said report and sur-
vey of said boundary line which they may cause to be made, which
said report the governor of Virginia shall transmit to the general as-
sembly at the next session thereof for confirmation or rejection.
5. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated
out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable
on the order of the governor of Virginia to carry out the purposes of
this act.
6. This act shall be in force from its passage.