Chap. 24.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 6 of an act to in-
corporate the city of Danville, approved February 17, 1890, as heretofore
amended. [H! B 39]

Approved February 17, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of V Irginia, That section
eight of chapter six of the act entitled an act to incorporate the city
of Danville, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, as heretofore amended, be, and it is hereby, amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

CHAPTER SIX.

Section 8. The council, in the name of the city of Danville, Vir-
ginia, shall also have power to purchase, receive, lease and hold lands,
tenements, goods and chattels, either in fee simple or in any less estate
therein, either for the use of said city in its private, public, govern-
mental, or other capacity or in trust for the benefit of any person or
associations therein, and may lease, sell, grant and convey any lands,
tenements, personal or any other property owned by the city of Dan-
ville, whether the same be owned in its private, public, governmental,
or other capacity; to purchase and hold any quantity of land outside
of the limits of the corporation, and in the county of Pittsylvania, not
exceeding five hundred acres, as may be necessary for use, convenience,
and comfort of the public, and for one or more public cemeteries,
public parks, home for the poor, and a work house, and for such other
purposes as the council may designate. Any land so acquired and
bona fide used for such purposes shall be subject to the jurisdiction
of said council, and the corporation court of said city, in like manner
as if the same were within the corporate limits of said city, and shall
be free from State tax.

The council of said city shall have power and authority to con-
struct, own, control, maintain, and operate railway yards, tracks,
depots, and terminals, within and without said city, in Pittsylvania
county, and to let the same to some corporation which will maintain,
use and operate the same, and to that end said council may acquire
within and without the limits of said city, by purchase, condemnation
or otherwise, whatever land may be necessary for construction, lo-
cating, establishing, maintaining, and operating such railway yards,
tracks, depots and terminals. Any lessee of property acquired by the
city hereunder shall not, at any time during the term of said lease,
assign the lease, or sublet said property to any person, firm or corpo-
ration, which owns, controls or operates in whole or in part, a com-
peting line of railway entering said city, if the result of such assign-
ment or subletting shall be that only one line or corporation shall
thereby own and control all lines of railway entering said city; pro-
vided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the
condemnation of property already devoted to a railroad use, but this
restriction is not intended to in any way interfere with or hinder or
obstruct the city in its right to cross with its railway tracks or those
of its lessee the tracks of other railroad companies.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.