CHAP. 483.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sub-division 25 of an act en-
titled an act concerning the exercise of the power of eminent domain,
approved the 18th day of January, 1904, as amended by an act ap-
proved March 11, 1912. (S. B. 201)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
subdivision twenty-five of an act entitled an act concerning the
exercise of the power of eminent domain, approved the eigh-
teenth day of January, nineteen hundred and four, as amended
by an act approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and
twelve, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Subdivision twenty-five. If the court or the State highway
commission or the board of supervisors of any county, for the
purpose of opening, constructing, repairing or maintaining a
road or any other public purpose authorized by law, the council
of any city or town, the trustees of any school district, the insti-
tution for the deaf and blind, any of the State hospitals, the Uni-
versity of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, or any other
institution of this State, cannot, because of the incapacity of
the owner or inability to agree upon a price or terms, or because
the owner cannot with reasonable diligence be found in this
State or is unknown, agree on terms of purchase with those en-
titled to any land, buildings, structures, sand, earth, gravel,
water or other material necessary to be taken and used for the
purposes of the State highway commission, county, city or town,
or school district, or for the purposes of the institution for the
deaf and blind or for such State hospitals, or the University of
Virginia, or the Virginia Military Institute, or of any other State
institution, it may acquire title to such land or an easement
thereover, and title to such sand, earth, gravel, water or other
material aforesaid by condemnation under the provisions of
this act, and the proceedings in all such cases shall be according
to the provisions of this act, so far as they can be applied to the
same. In all cases where roads are constructed with State aid,
either in the form of convict labor or money, together with
county or district funds, the location of such roads shall be
first approved by the local road authorities of such county.
Wherever the word “company” is used in this act, here amended
as to subdivision twenty-five, it shall be construed to mean
the “State highway commission” or “board of supervisors” in
cases in which the State highway commission are boards of su-
pervisors may, under the provisions hereof, exercise the right
of eminent domain.