Chap. 197.—An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the trus-
tees of the Belfield Academy, in the town of Belfield, and county of
Greenesville (passed December 29, 1801), and to authorize and em-
power W. M. Powell, M. J. Squire, Geo. B. Woed, G. L. Vincent, and W.
Samuel Goodwyn, surviving trustees of the Belfield Academy, who were
duly appointed successors to W. H. Briggs, John R. Chambliss, Braxton
R. Wilson, William S. Goodwyn, John W. Potts, and Thomas F. Jones,
trustees of the Belfield Academy, to whom a certain lot or parcel of land,
in the county of Greenesville (now town of Emporia), was conveyed by
Jas. R. Cato and wife, others, by deed dated December 26, 1873, and
recorded May 21, 1875, in deed book, volume II, page 152, et seq., in the
clerk’s office of said county, for the benefit of said acadamy, and which
was sold by Leo D. Yarrell and W. Samuel Goodwyn, commissioners of
the circuit court of the county of Greenesville, by order of said court,
entered in the chancery cause of Goodwyn and others, trustees, against
Wood, trustee, and others, to BE. E. Goodwyn, E. Ennis Eanes, and the
trustees of the Baptist church, and confirmed by decree entered in said
cause February 5, 1909, and the money deposited to the credit of the
court in said cause in bank, to appropriate, expend, and use all of said
moneys belonging to said academy, and realized as aforesaid, out of the
sale of said real estate, for the benefit of Greenesville county high school,
and for the special purpose of improving, landscaping and beautifying
the grounds upon which said high school is located.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of the Belfield academy, in
the town of Belfield, and county of Greenesville (passed December
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and one), be, and the same is hereby,
repealed, and W. M. Powell, M. J. Squire, George B. Wood, G. L. Vin-
cent, and W. Samuel Goodwyn, successors as trustees of the Belfield
Academy, to W. H. Briggs, John R. Chambliss, Thomas F. Jones, Brax-
ton R. Wilson, John W. Potts, and William S. Goodwyn, former sur-
viving trustees of the Belfield Academy, be, and they are hereby, author-
ized and empowered to appropriate, use, and expend all moneys derived
from the sale of the land conveyed by James R. Cato and wife and
others, by deed dated December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, to W. H. Briggs, John R. Chambliss, Braxton R.
Wilson, John W. Potts, Thomas F. Jones, and William 8S. Goodwyn,
trustees of the Belfield Academy, and recorded May twenty-first, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-five, in the clerk’s office of the county court
of Greenesville, in deed book, volume two, page one hundred and fifty-
two, et sequences, which land was sold to E. E. Goodwyn, E. Ennis
Eanes, and the trustees of the Baptist church, by Leo D. Yarrell and W.
Samuel Goodwyn, commissioners appointed by decree of the circuit
court of the county of Greenesville, rendered in the chancery suit of
Goodwyn and others, trustees, against Wood, trustee, und others, and
confirmed by said court by decree rendered in said cause February fifty,
nineteen hundred and nine, as they deem best, for the benefit of the
Greenesville county high school, located in the town of Emporia, in
landscaping, improving, and beautifying the lawns and grounds of said
high school, and such additional land adjoining the present school lot
as may be acquired for its purposes by the school authorities; and when
said trustees shall have expended all of the funds of said corporation,
they shall report a detailed statement thereof to the circuit court of the
county of Greenesville, who, upon approving the same, shall enter an
order in the aforesaid suit of Goodwyn and others, trustees, against
Wood, trustee, and others, finally discharging them.
&. There being an emergency for this act in the immediate need of
funds to complete the improvement and beautifying of the aforesaid
school grounds, this act shall take effect and be in force from its passage.