Chap. 201.—Apn ACT to authorize turnpike companies and other corporations
owning turnpikes to make changes in the alignment of turnpikes and to
validate changes heretofore made.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sev-
eral turnpike companies of this State, or the corporations owning turn.
pikes in this State, shall be, and they are hereby, empowered, by anc
with the consent of the circuit court of the respective counties whereir
said turnpikes are located, to make such changes in the alignment 0!
said turnpikes as said courts shall deem wise.

2. That wherever any changes shall have been made, and the turn
pike road, as changed, shall have been used for the period of five year
prior to the date of this enactment, the turnpike road now in use shal
be deemed as effectually changed as if it had been made under the pre
ceding section.

3 That wherever such changes shall have been heretofore made, a
provided by section two, or shall hereafter be made, as provided by sec
tion one, the abandoned roadbed from which said turnpike was change
shall vest in the owners of the land on either side thereof, the abuttin;
owners to take to the center of said abandoned roadway.

4, An emergency being shown to exist, this act shall be in force fron

its passage.