Shields v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Richmond Chancery Court. The case was submitted in this Court without argument; and the following opinion gives a complete history of it.
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Green
delivered the opinion of the Court.*
The act of February 28, 1816, enacted, “that the Executive be, and they are hereby authorised to contract with some person or persons, for regulating the surface of the public square, in the city of Richmond, and for enclosing, planting, and improving the same,” &c. - The second section, authorises the Executive to sell certain public property; and the third section, constituted the proceeds of *542the sales, a fund for defraying the expenses authorised by ®rst sectaon °f the act, as far as the same may be necessary, and directed the disposition of…
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