Chap. 289.-An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-section F of section 2, chap-
- ter IIT of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became
a law May 21, 1903. (S. B. 372.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sub-section F of section two, chapter three of an act entitled an act
concerning corporations, which became a law May twenty-one, nine-
teen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

In the event the said corporation cannot, because of the inca-
pacity of the owner, or inability to agree upon the price or terms,
or because the owner cannot with reasonable diligence be found,
cr is unknown, agree on the terms of purchase with those entitled
to any land, or interest or estate therein, sand, earth, gravel, water,
or other material necessary to be taken and used in the construction,
maintenance, operation, improvement, or straightening of the line,
or works, or change of location of the line, or works of any such
corporation, or in constructing or providing additional facilities,
or for other necessary purposes, may proceed for the condemnation
thereof, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided by
the general statutes of this State relative to the condemnation of
lands; provided, however, any such canal or turnpike corporation
‘shall not take, by condemnation proceedings, a strip of land for its
right of way wider than one hundred feet, except at places where
more land is required for slopes, cuts, tunnels, embankments, termi-
nals, or for the improvement or straightening of its line, or for
other necessary purposes, or change of location; and provided, fur-
ther, no corporation chartered under this chapter shall take, by
condemnation proceedings, any more land or other property, than
is required for its line, or works, or the improvement, or straight-
ening of its line, or change of location as aforesaid, or for other
necessary purposes.