CHAP. 242.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 71-a of an act to pro-
vide a new charter for the city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts
or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908.

Approved March 13, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seventy-one-a of an act to provide a new charter for the
city of Bristol, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in
conflict therewith, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$71-a. In connection with its svstem ot sewerage within the
city of Bristol, the council may adopt and use Beaver creek
as a sewer; provided that reasonable care be used in confining
said creek within its channel, and to this end the council may at
any time order the channel of said Beaver creek to be so altered,
widened, deepened, straightened, or the location thereof changed,
as it may think proper, and such wall or walls to be constructed
along its banks as will prevent overflow; and said city of Bristol
is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn, in the manner
provided by law, any land, or interest in land, or any riparian
rights, of any property rights, necessary for the purpose of so
altering, widening, deepening, straightening, or changing the lo-
cation of the channel of said Reaver creek within said city of
Bristol.