Chap. 248.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 672 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 327]
“ Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six hundred and seventy-two of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 672. Condemnation of land for school houses.—If, in the
judgment of the district school board, the public interests demand
that a school house be located on a particular spot, or when a school
house is already located upon land purchased or acquired for such
purposes and more land is needed for school purposes, and no equit-
able arrangements for its. purchase prove to be practicable, the board
of trustees shall be authorized, and it shall be its duty, to cause the
desired parcel of land to be surveyed by the county or other com-
petent surveyor, and a plat of the same to be filed, together with a
general statement of the case, with the clerk of the circuit court ; and
thereupon, on application of the district school board, the same pro-
ceedings shall be had as are prescribed by the laws relating to the
exercise of the right of eminent domain; but no parcel of land thus
condemned shall exceed one acre in a town or five acres in the
country. No dwelling, yard, garden, or orchard shall be invaded, nor
in an unincorporated town any space within one hundred feet of a
dwelling, nor in the country any space within two hundred yards
of a mansion house, without the consent of the owner, provided,
however, that where a school is already located on land acquired or
purchased for that purpose, and when additional land is needed for
school purposes, same may be taken under the provisions of this
section, although the land to be so taken may be within one hundred
feet of a dwelling in an unincorporated town or within two hundred
yards of a mansion house in the country, where the land to be so
taken is not any nearer such dwelling or mansion house than any
portion of the land already acquired or purchased upon which a
school has been already located.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.