Chap. 157.—An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Front Royal to
sell and convey certain real estate.

Approved March 12, 1906.

Whereas the town of Front Royal in acquiring the rights and fran-
chises of an electric light plant also became the owner of two certain lots
of land, known and designated as lots number seventeen and eighteen in
block one hundred and thirty-eight, as more fully appears by deed from
the general electric company to said town, bearing date July twenty-
eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and of record in the clerk’s
office, of Warren county, Virginia, in deed book “Z,” page two hundred
and twenty-four: also in acquiring the rights and franchises of the Royal
water company, became the owner of lots number fifteen and sixteen in
said block one hundred and thirty-eight, as fully appears by deed from
the Royal water company to W. P. King, trustee, for said town, dated the
seventh day of August, nineteen hundred and two, and of record in the
derk’s office of said county in deed book number five, page three hundred
and eighty-seven; and :

Whereas said town has no further use for said four lots or parcels of
land, and is desirous of selling the same; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the legislature of Virginia, That the council of
said town of Front Royal, Virginia, be, and is hereby, empowered and
authorized to sell, after reasonable and proper advertisement at public
auction, to the highest bidder, said four lots or parcels of land, and that
the mayor of said town is hereby authorized and empowered to execute
and deliver to any purchaser, or purchasers, of said lots a deed of con-
veyance for the same whenever ordered to do so by resolution of said
town council, and any conveyance so made by said mayor, and attested
by the recorder of said town, shall have the effect of passing all, or such
title to said lots as may be in said town, or in said trustee for the use
and benefit of said town.

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