of the
STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
(Created an Agency of the commonwealth of)
(Virginia by an Act of the General Assem-)
(bly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1928)
(Acts of 1926, Chapter 169, Page 307)
in and to
SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK LANDS
CONDEMNED
for use as
A PUBLIC PARK AND FOR PUBLIC PARK PURPOSES
In the Condemnation Proceeding
Styled as Follows
The State Commission on Conservation
and Development of the State of
Virginia Petitioner
v. At Law No. 1829
Cassandra Lawson Atkins and others,
and Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred
Sixty-One (52,561) Acres of Land,
more or less in Rockingham County,
Virginia Defendants.
Admitted to record the 10th day of August,
1934, pursuant to an order entered the 28th day of
June, 1934, and spread in the Common Law Order Book
No. 20, page 218, in the Clerk's Office of the Cir-
cuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia
[omitted or missing]
[Probable Summary: this suit seems to a) dismiss the condemnation proceedings against owners who had already sold their land to the commission; and b) seeks to condemn the remaining land in Rockingham County that has not yet been acquired through purchase.]
(B) PETITION
TO THE HONORABLE H.W. BERTRAM, JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA:
Your petitioner, the State Commission on Conservation and Development of the State of Virginia, alleges and shows:
That by the provisions of said Acts and an Act of General Assembly of Virgnia, approved March 22, 1928, the short title of which is “National Park Act”, petitioner is vested with the power of eminent domain to condemn for a public park. . .
Plats of the land were included in this submission to the court. A separate plat was required for each owner. A full plat was submitted by Cathy and is here shown as an example:
#178 Shifflett, Ambrose
County: Rockingham
District: Stonewall
District: Stonewall
LEGEND
Slope - Cove
Grazing
Scale - 1" = 20 chains
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