CHAP. 71.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the cities
and towns of this Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or
condemnation, property adjoining parks, monuments or other public
property belonging to such cities or towns, or property in the vicinity

of such parks, monuments, or other public property, which is used
and maintained in such a manner as to impair the beauty, usefulness,
efficiency, or convenience of said parks, monuments, or public property,
and to dispose of the same, with proper limitations as to the future
use thereof, approved March 14, 1906. (S. B. 118.)

Approved February 29, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to authorize the cities and towns of this
Commonwealth to acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation,
property adjoining parks, monuments, or other public property
belonging to such cities or towns, or property in the vicinity of
such parks, monuments, or other public property, which is used
and maintained in such a manner as to impair the beauty, use-
fulness, efficiency, or convenience of said parks, monuments, or
public property, and to dispose of the same, with proper limita-
tions as to the future use thereof, approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows, to-wit:

That any city or town of this Commonwealth may acquire
by purchase, gift, or condemnation, property adjoining its parks,
or plats on which its monuments are located, or other property
used for public purposes, or in the vicinity of such parks, plats
or property, which is used and maintained in such a manner as
to impair the beauty, usefulness or efficiency of such parks, plats.
or public property, and may likewise acquire property adjacent
to any street, the topography of which, from its proximity
thereto, impairs the convenient use of such street, or renders
impracticable, without extraordinary expense, the improvement
of the same, and the city or town so acquiring any such prop-
erty may subsequently dispose of the property so acquired, mak-
ing limitations as to the use thereof, which will protect the
beauty, usefulness, efficiency, or convenience of such parks, plats
or property.

And any city or town in this Commonwealth proposing to
open or widen a street by taking any part of a block or square
in such a manner that the value of the property abutting the
proposed street, would be injuriously affected unless the prop-
erty on such block or square is re-platted and the property line
re-adjusted, then and in that event the city or town at the same
time it acquires the land for said street may, in its discretion
also acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, all
or any part of the property on such squares or blocks and may
subsequently re-plat and dispose of the property so acquired,
m whole or in parts, making such limitations as to the uses
thereof as it may see fit.