Chap. 116.—An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract of lease entered into
between the special board of directors of the Southwestern State hospital
and United States spruce lumber company.

Approved March 8, 1906.

Whereas the special board of directors of the Southwestern State hos-
pital did, at a meeting held on the twenty-ninth of August, nineteen hun-
dred and four, enter into a contract with the United State spruce lumber
company, leasing to said company, for a period of twenty years from
that date with the option to extend said lease for an additional term of
ten or fifteen years, of a strip of land containing about five and one-hal}
acres for an annual rental of ten dollars per acre per year, payable an-
nually in advance, said contract of lease being subject to the ratification
of the general assembly of Virginia; and
Whereas the said board of directors recommend that said contract be
ratified ; therefore,
. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That said con-
wat be, and it is hereby, ratified and confirmed.