CHAPTER 712

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of an act entitled an act for
the appointment of trustees for the town of York, approved March
16, 1918, as heretofore amended, relating to town property.

[H 779]
Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 4, as amended, of an act entitled an act for the appointment
of trustees for the town of York, approved March sixteenth, nineteen
hundred and eighteen, as heretofore amended, be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 4. Said trustees of the town of York shall not lease or otherwise
dispose of any of the property of the said town of York, until any proposed
lease or conveyance thereof has been advertised in accordance with the
provisions of the general law governing leases and conveyances made by
cities and towns; except and provided as follows: That the trustees of
the town of York be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to
convey to the United States of America, upon such terms and conditions
as may be agreed upon by and between the said trustees and the said
United States, all that river shore land in the town of York, being originally
a part of the commons of the said town, lying and being on York River, and
bounded as follows: On the northeast by York River; on the southeast by
the northwest line of Ballard Street, extended to low water mark of York
River; on the southwest by the northeast line of Water Street, which is
forty (40) feet wide, and on the northwest by the northwest limit of the
said town of York, being the southeast line of the property of the Yorktown
Iee and Storage Corporation. The said property to be held and used for
the benefit of the Colonial National Monument, the trustees of the town
of York, and York County, for the purposes and under the terms and
conditions to be mutually agreed upon between the trustees of the said
town and the United States, and no other.

Provided, however, that upon terms and conditions mutually agreeable
and satisfactory to the Town Trustees of the Town of York and the United
States, a portion of the aforesaid property may be used and held by the
Post Office Department of the United States as a post office.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.