Chap. 181.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 6, of an act
approved February 17, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the city of
Danville, so that the council of said city shall have power and authority
to construct, own, maintain and operate railway yards, tracks, depots
and terminals, to purchase and condemn lands for said purposes and to
lease and let the same. (H. B. 448.)

Approved March 21, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight, chapter six, of an act approved February seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to incorporate the
city of Danville, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lews:

Cuapter VI.

Sec. 8. The council shall also have power to purchase, receive,
lease and hold lands, tenements, goods and chattels, either in fee
simple or any less estate therein, either for the use of said city or
in trust for the benefit of any persons or associations therein, and
the same to let. sell or grant, cr assign again; to purchase and hold
any quantity of land outside of the limits of the corporation, and in
the county of Pittsylvania, not exceeding two hundred acres, as
may be necessary for the use, convenience, and comfort of the
people, and for one or more public cemeteries, public parks, a poor
house, and a work house. Any land so acquired and bona fide used
for such purposes shall be subject to the jurisdiction of said council
and the cerporation court of said city in like manner as if the same
were within the corporate limits of said city, and be free from State
tax.

The council of said city shall have power and authority to con-
struct, own, control, maintain and operate railway yards, tracks.
depots and terminals, within and without said city, in Pittsylvania
county, and to let the same to some corporation which will main-
tain, use and operate the same, and to that end said council may
acquire within and without the limits of said city, by purchase,
condemnation or otherwise, whatever land may be necessary for
constructing, locating, establishing, maintaining, and operating
such railway yards, tracks, depots and terminals. Any lessee of
property acquired by the city hereunder shall not, at any time
during the term of said lease, assign the lease, or sub-let said
property to any person, firm or corporation which owns, controls
or operates, in whole or in part, a competing line of railway enter-
ing said city, if the result of such assignment or sub-letting shall
be that only one line or corporation shall thereby own and control
all lines of railway entering said city. Provided, nothing herein
contained shall be construed to authorize the condemnation of
property already devoted to a railroad use, but this restriction is
not intended to in any way interfere with or hinder or obstruct
the city in its right to cross with its railway tracks or those of its
lessee the tracks of other railroad companies.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.