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corporations, of any land~ water, water rights or easen~nts, for the use or purchase thereof, or ~ay have the s~me condemned for the location, extension and enlargement of the s~id works, the pipes connected therewith~ or any fixtures or app~u~tenances thereof. The city shall have power to protect from injury by adequate penalties~ the said works, pipes~ fixtures 8nd l~nd~ or anytb~ connected therewith, ~tbx~n or without the limits of the city, aud to prevent the pollution of the water, by prohibiting the throwing of filth or offensive matter therein, or its pollution in any other way, or in any other place where the water m~v be affected thereby; and such prohibition may be enforced by proper penalties. 6~2~TER III. SE~fION 23(F). In addition to the other powers conferred by law the city ~ay, in exercising the right of eminent dcmain~ make use of the procedure prescribed by the general law or may elect to proceed as herelnai~er provided. In the latter event the resolution direct- lng acquisition of ~ny property shall provide therein for each parcel the f~nds necessary to compensate the owners thereof for the property to be acquired or dsmaged. Upon the adoption of such resolution the city may file a petition for condemaation in the clerk's office of a court having jurisdiction. Upon the filing of the petiticn aud the funds provided by the council for the purpose having been duly deposited to the credit of court, if the court is of the opinion that the property or interest or estate therein to be acquired is for the uses and purpose of the city as provided by law, it may order that the interest or estate of the o~er of such prOp- erty shall terminate ~nd the title to such property or the interest or estate to be taken in such property shall be vested a0solutely in the city and such owner shall have such interest or estate in the funds so deposited as he had in the proper~y taken or d~naged and all lier~ by deed of trusts judgment or otherwise upon said proper~y or estate shall be ~ransferred to such lkauds and the city shall have the right to enter upon and take pos- session of such property for its uses and purposes and to construct its works or i~prove~ents. ~ne clerk of the court in which such proceeding is instituted shall make and certify a copy of the order and deliver or transmit the sa~e to the clerk of the co~r~ in which deeds are a~itted to record, who shall record the ssme in his .deed book and index it in the of the ~ecord title owner of such property and in the name of the city. Ail other proceedings under this section shall be had in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia General Conderm~ation Act in so far as they are then applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this section. Provided, howevers that the provisions of Section 25-233 of the Code of Virginia, as now or hereafter in effect, shall apply to ~y prop- erty belonging to any corporation possessing the power of eminent domain that may be ~ further~ that nothing herein co~tained shall authority to acquire by eonde~na- tion