Chap. 241.—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
public park purposes. [S B 264]

Approved March 23, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
lands situated in the State of Virginia, described in section two (2)
hereof, are hereby specifically designated and set apart as lands suitable
for use as a public park and for public park purposes, and the State
commission on conservation and development is hereby expressly au-
thorized 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 designated
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 Appomattox county, Virginia,
which embraces what is known as the surrender grounds, on which are
the various points of historical interest connected with the surrender
of the Confederate army, containing approximately two thousand and
thirteen (2,013) acres, about one and one-half miles northeast of Ap-
pomattox courthouse, and lying on either side of State highway number
three hundred and six (306) for a distance of three miles, adjoining
the lands of Wooldridge, M. C. Smith, H. D. Flood’s estate, W. P.
Gill, H. D. Flood’s estate and S. L. Ferguson, Joel W. Flood, R. E.
O’Brien, Eddie Carter, J. H. Turmes, Mrs. Henrietta Scott, Gallilee
Church lot, and others, bounded and described as follows:

Starting at a poplar tree on Plain Run branch; thence northwest
to State highway number three hundred and six (306); thence along
said highway in a westerly direction to the southwest corner of a tract
of land owned by S. L. Ferguson and H. D. Flood’s estate; thence
northwest to the county road; thence north to the Appomattox river ;
thence northeast, following the said Appomattox river to a point at
the northern corner of a tract of land owned by Henrietta A. Scott;
thence northeast to the Oakville road at a point on said road in front
of the dwelling house of Eddie Carter; thence in an easterly and south-
easterly direction to State highway number three hundred and six
(306); thence southeast along what is known as the Mill road to
R. E. O’Brien’s land; thence southwest to Appomattox river; thence
southwest through the lands of Joel W. Flood, H. D. Flood’s estate
and S. L. Ferguson, and W. P. Gill’s, to a corner near or on the
boundary line of W. P. Gill’s and H. D. Flood’s estate ; thence due west
to a poplar tree on Plain Run branch; thence following Plain Run
branch in a westerly direction to the poplar tree mentioned at the
beginning of this description. This tract of land is more particularly
described by a plat prepared by W. A. Moses, surveyor, December,
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and recorded in the clerk’s office
of Appomattox county.

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, except a tract of land containing
one and eighty-nine hundredths (1.89) acres, known as the Old Court
House lot, now owned by the county of Appomattox. and which the said
county has offered to donate to the United States of America as a site
for a monument which will be erected pursuant to an act of Congress,
including dwelling houses, outbuildings, orchards, yards, gardens, and
other improvements on such lands, and all or any right, title, or in-
terest in or to all or any part of such lands, and the improvements
thereon, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemna-
tion 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 commission 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 interest in the lands within the areas described
in section two (2) of this act, which may be acquired by the State com-
mission 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.