Chap. 473.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1721 and to repeal section
1722 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 18, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1721. Establishment of temporary hospitals; how compensation for
use of land, and so forth, ascertained.—The council of any town may &-
tablish outside of its corporate limits, and the board of supervisors of 4
county, upon the request of any justice of such county, or upon its own
motion, may establish in such county temporary hospitals for the recep-
tion of persons having any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to
the public health, and to that end they may seize and appropriate, for such
hospitals, so much land as may be necessary, or any private building not
used for a residence; and may also appoint a health officer, and by and
with his advice adopt such regulations as may be proper to prevent the
spread of the disease; the expense of all which shall be paid by the town
er county. If the council or board of supervisors, as the case may be, and
the owner or tenant cannot agree on the compensation proper to be made
for the use of such land or building for the purposes aforesaid, application
shall be made by such council or board to the circuit court of the county,
or the judge thereof in vacation, for the appointment of five commission-
ers, who shall be freeholders and not inhabitants of the town where the
application is by the council. Notice of the application shall be given
and subsequent proceedings shall be had in accordance with the provisions
of the law regulating the exercise of the right of eminent domain.

2. Be it further enacted, That section seventeen hundred and twenty-
two of the Code of Virginia be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.