CHAPTER 533

An Act to invest the Attorney General, in the name of the Commonwealth,
with the power of eminent domain with respect to certain monuments
or memorials in certain instances; and to declare the policy of the
Commonwealth with respect to its traditional memorials.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: _

§ 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Commonwealth
that the traditions and memorials of its.history are in the public interest
of the people of the Commonwealth as a whole.

§ 2. The Attorney General is hereby vested, if it appears to him
to be in the public interest, with the power of eminent domain, in the
name of the Commonwealth, in order to preserve any historical monument
or memorial in the Commonwealth, whether it should be held by any private
person, city, town or county in the State. Proceedings brought here-
under shall conform to the provisions of Article 5 or Chapter 1 of Title 33
of the Code of Virginia.