Sec. 23. If any corporation shall, for its purposes aforesaid, require any land belonging to the state or to any county or town, the general assembly and the county and town officers respectively having charge of such lands may grant such lands to such corporation upon such terms as shall be agreed upon; and if they shall not so agree, the same may be taken by the corporation in the same manner as provided in other cases. No railroad shall be located upon or across the grounds of the state occupied by the institutions for individuals who are:
(1) insane;
(2) blind; or
(3) deaf and without speech.
Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.23. As amended by P.L.99-2007, SEC.32.