CHAPTER 275

An Act to appropriate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars to the J. H.
Miles and Company, Incorporated, for all claims for damages which
may occur as a result of the termination of the leasing of oyster beds
from the construction, operation and maintenance of a disposal area
for dredged material in Hampton Roads pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter 472 of the Acts of Assembly of 1948. 8 892

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Approved March 15, 1954

Whereas, the Congress of the United States in the River and Harbor
Act of July 24, 1946 (Public Law 525-79th Congress) adopted a project, as
provided in House Document No. 653, 79th Congress, Second Session, for
the construction of a disposal area of approximately twenty-five hundred
acres, adjacent to and north of Craney Island in Hampton Roads, for the
disposal of material dredged from the Norfolk harbor at Hampton Roads,
provided among other things, that the Commonwealth of Virginia convey to
the United States title to the submerged lands to be permanently occupied
by the disposal area; and,

Whereas, title to that part of the land owned by the Commonwealth
of Virginia necessary for the construction and development of this project
has been conveyed to the United States by the Commonwealth of Virginia
pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 266 of the Acts of Assembly of 1946,
approved March 25, 1946; and,

Whereas, construction of said disposal area as authorized by the
Congress of the United States will result, directly and indirectly, in material
benefits to the Commonwealth of Virginia; and,