§ 6-104. Condemnation of property for street purposes.

The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah, a municipal corporation of this state, is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn property for the purpose of widening, extending or straightening any street, lane, way or square in the City of Savannah, or opening, laying out and establishing any new street, lane, way or square within the limits of said City, and to pay damages to the owner or owners of said property incident to the said condemnation. The said municipal corporation shall proceed in condemning property for the purposes mentioned under the terms and provisions of an Act of the Legislature of this state, approved December 18, 1894, entitled: "An Act to provide for a uniform method of exercising the right of condemning, taking or damaging private property," and to be found on pages 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 100 of the volume containing the published laws for the year of 1894. The fact that the property needed by the said municipal corporation for the purposes mentioned may be owned or used by a railroad or other corporation shall be no bar to the exercise of the right of condemnation hereby conferred.

(1895 Ga. Laws, page 316, § 1)