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A ruling from Virginia Attorney General Marshall Coleman issued at the request of George Beard, Rappahannock’s representative in the General Assembly, supports—at least in part—the contention that park land exchanges are legal under state law.
In response to Beard’s inquiry as to whether the United States may exchange land in Shenandoah National Park for privately owned land, Coleman notes in a letter dated August 14 addressed to Beard that the answer “turns on whether the land in question was granted or conveyed to the United States by the Commonwealth after June 26. 1936.”
“If title were obtained from another entity than the Commonwealth, I am aware of no legal restriction on its exchange for privately owned land." Coleman states. “Further, there is no restriction concerning land obtained from the Comv monwealth before June 26, 1936."
However, the Attorney General continues, if “the land was granted or conveyed to the Commonwealth after June 26, 1936, right and title to such land iml—w
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