Chap. 116.—An ACT authorizing the State commission on conservation and de-
velopment to acquire by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in con-
demnation proceedings or by gift, devise, purchase or any other lawful means
for the transfer of title, the lands described therein, for public parks or for pub-
lic park purposes. [fH B 143]

Approved March 8, 1932

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. The lands situated in the State of Virginia, described in sec-
tion two (2) hereof, are hereby specifically designated and set apart
as lands suitable for use as a public park and for public park -pur-
poses, and the State commission on conservation and development is
hereby expressly authorized and empowered to acquire title to said
lands or any part thereof for such use.

2. The lands in the State of Virginia herein specifically desig-
nated and set apart as lands suitable for use as a public park and for
public park purposes are as follows:

A. That tract or body of land in the Cumberland mountain area
of Virginia, together with all waters included therein or appurtenant
thereto, approximately six thousand eight hundred and fifty (6,850)
acres in extent, and bounded as follows:

Beginning at a point on top of Cumberland mountain in Dickenson
county, Virginia, boundary line and on the Virginia-Kentucky state
line (said point being located east of and approximately eight hun-
dred and forty (840) feet from a triangulation station known as
“Cumberland”) ; thence following the top of Cumberland mountain
and the Virginia-Kentucky state line in a northeasterly direction, with
Dickenson county on the south and Pike county on the north, for
approximately five and six-tenths (5.6) miles, crossing the Carolina,
Clinchfield and Ohio railway and Russell fork to the mouth of Grassy
creek, a tributary of Russell fork; thence continuing with the Vir-
ginia-Kentucky State line for approximately one and two-tenths (1.2)
miles to a point opposite the mouth of Little Grassy creek; thence
leaving the said Virginia-Kentucky state line and running up said
Little Grassy creek and with the Dickenson-Buchanan county line,
approximately two and seventy-four hundredths (2.74) miles to a
point where said Little Grassy creek crosses a line of Clinchfield Coal
Corporation’s K. S. Colley mineral tract (said point being south
forty-seven degrees and eleven minutes west approximately two hun-
dred (200) feet from a concrete monument, a corner of said K. S. Col-
ley mineral tract; thence leaving said Little Grassy creek and the
Dickenson-Buchanan county line and running approximately south
sixty-two degrees and no minutes west three and eighty-two hun-
dredths (3.82) miles, crossing Camp branch and Fall branch, tribu-
taries of Russell fork, to the mouth of said Fall branch; thence run-
ning approximately south sixty degrees and thirty minutes west two
and thirty-eight hundredths (2.38) miles, recrossing Russell fork and
the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway and passing through the
mouth of the left fork of Skeet Rock branch at a point approximately
three thousand two hundred feet (3,200) from the mouth of Skeet
Rock branch and Pound river, to a point on top of the ridge between
Skeet Rock branch and Lower Twin branch; thence following the top
of said ridge in a northerly direction one and seventy-six hundredths
(1.76) miles to the top of Cumberland mountains on the Virginia-
Kentucky state line—the point of beginning.

3. Subject to the provisions of this act, the State commission on
conservation and development is hereby expressly vested with the
power of eminent domain to condemn for use as a public park or for
public park purposes, and to acquire title to all or any part of the
lands described in section two (2) hereof, including dwelling houses,
outbuildings, orchards, yards, gardens, and other improvements on
such lands, and, all or any right, title, or interest in or to all or
any part of such lands, and the improvements thereon, by the exer-
cise of the right of eminent domain in condemnation proceedings or
by gift, devise, purchase, or any other lawful means for the transfer
of title; provided, nevertheless that in acquiring title to any of the
said property by condemnation proceedings or otherwise, the com-
mission shall have no authority to pledge the credit of the State or to
incur any indebtedness on behalf of itself or of the State.

Title to all lands and interests in lands within the area described
in section two (2) of this act, which may be acquired by the State
commission on conservation and development under authority of
the provisions of this act shall be held by the commission in trust for
the State of Virginia.