Chap. 45.—An ACT authorizing certain Commissioners to sell a certain
Lot of Land in Winchester, belonging to the Winchester Academy.

Passed January 9, 1867.

Whereas it is represented to this general assembly by the
survivors of the board of trustees of the Winchester aca-
demy, that all the buildings and enclosures upon the academy
lot have been utterly demolished, and the materials carried
off and entirely lost, in order to put what remains as pfo-
perty in some’ productive form, and preserve it as a nucleus
for a future endowment:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Phillip Williams and Joseph H. Sherrard be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of making
sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, of the, lot ad-
joining the town of, Winchester, belonging to the Winchester
academy, incorporated by act of the general assembly, passed
in October, seventeen hundred and eighty- six; and said com-
missioners shall invest the proceeds upon interest, and trans-
fer such investment to the board of trustees of said’ academy
whenever duly. organized: provided, however, that said com-
missioners agree to act without charging anything more than
their actual expenses.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.