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.
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Volume | 1908 |
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Law Number | 318 |
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Chap. 318.—An ACT to authorize the United States government to acquire
title to and jurisdiction over certain lands situated at Sewell’s Point in
Tannar’s Creek magisterial district, Norfolk county, Virginia, including
all or a portion of the land comprised in the site of the Jamestown Ter-
Centennial exposition and the improvements thereon.
Approved March 14, 1908.
Whereas, it has been represented to the general assembly of Virginia,
‘That it may be desirable for the United States to acquire, by purchase,
all or a portion of the lands comprised as the site of the Jamestown
ter-centennial exposition at Sewell’s Point, in Tanners Creck magisterial
district, Norfolk county, Virginia, fronting on Hampton Roads and
Willoughsby bay, together with the improvements on such lands as may
be purchased, for the purpose of maintaining a naval training school,
a caaling station, or for other governmental purposes; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the con-
sent of the Commonwealth be, and is hereby, given to the said purchase,
and when the same shall have been made, jurisdiction is hereby ceded
to the government of the United States, so that Congress and the
authorities of the federal government shall have all lawful power and
control over and in the same as specified in the seventeenth clause of
the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United
States; provided, however, that the consent herein given shall not
extend to the purchase or acquisition of more than four hundred acres
of land for the purpose aforesaid ; and provided, further, that the State
retains jurisdiction over the same in all matters relating to the viola-
tion of the laws of the State, to the execution and service of all processes
issued by or from the courts, magistrates, or other State officers in pur-
suiance of law, and in all other matters not incompatible with the consent
herein given, and the rightful authority of the United States thereby
acquired or to be acquired under this act.
2. That the said real estate, and the buildings, structures, docks or
improvements erected or to be erected thereon by the United States
government are hereby exempt from any tax to be imposed by this
State, or the constituted authorities of Norfolk county, so long as the
same shall be held and used by the general government for the purpose
herein before mentioned, and no longer.
3. Because of the fact that the present session of Con ngress of the
United States may adjourn before ninety days from the/date of the
adjournment of this session of the general assembly of Virginia, this
act is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the provisions of
section fifty-three of the Constitution of Virginia, and shall be in force
from its passage.