CHAP. 440.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 27 of an act ap
proved March 15, 1906, and entitled, an act to amend and re-ense
sections 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 26 and 27 of an act concerning the exercise o:
the power of eminent domain, approved January 18, 1 (8. B25:

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-seven of an act approved March fifteenth, nine-
teen hundred and six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec
tions four, five, six, nine, fourteen, twenty-five and twenty-sever
of an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent do
main, approved January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four
be, and the same hereby is, amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

27. If, in any proceeding under the provisions of thi:
act, the commissioners shall fail to report as hereinbefore pro-
vided within one year from the date of the order appointing
them, such appointment shall ipso facto be vacated, the pro-
ceedings shall thereafter be had de novo for the appointment of
other commissioners, but this section shai! not be construed as
to preclude the appointment of any one or more, or all, of the
former commissioners. If, in any such proceeding, the amount
or amounts ascertained by the commissioners as aforesaid be
not paid either to the party entitled thereto, or into court, with-
in three months from the date of the filing of the report of
the commissicners, the proceedings shall, on the motion of the
party condemning or of any defendant, be vacated and dismissed
as to him, but not otherwise; but if such proceedings be dis-
missed on the motion of the condemning party, judgment shall
be entered against such party for all costs and reasonable at-
torney’s fee actually incurred by any defendant.

But nothing contained herein shall be construed as affecting
any condemnation proceedings now pending in any of the courts.