CHAP. 471.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend an act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over
certain lands acquired for public purposes within this State and author-
izing the acquisition thereof, approved March 14, 1912, by stating and
declaring more clearly the meaning of the term “purchase,” as used

therein. | (H. B. 526.)
Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over cer-
tain lands acquired for public purposes within this State, and
authorizing the acquisition thereof, approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and twelve, be and the same is hereby amended
and re-enacted, in order to state and declare more clearly the
meaning of the term “purchase,” as used in said act approved
March fourteentu, nineteen hundred and twelve, so as to read
as follows:

Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Vir-
ginia, That the consent of the state of Virginia is hereby given
in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eightn section of
the first article of the Constitution of tne United States, to the
acquisition by the United States, by direct purchase from the
owner or owners, by condemnation, or otherwise, of any land
in this State for the purpose of forest conservation and preser-
vation of natural resources.