Chap. 16.—An ACT to give the consent of the State of Virginia to such in-
dividuals or company as may be granted permission by the Secretary of War
of the United States to erect and operate a hotel upon such site as may be
granted therefor on the United States Military Reservations at Fort
Monroe, Virginia. {[H B 9]

Approved February 17, 1922.

Whereas, pursuant to act of the general assembly of Virginia
passed on the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty-one, David Campbell, governor of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, did by deed under the seal of the Commonwealth, grant
and convey to the United States of America certain lands and shoals
at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, in said deed fully described, upon
certain terms and conditions also in said deed set forth, and

Whereas, by said deed, it is among other things provided, “That
the United States shall use the said land for purpose of fortifi-
cation and national defense, and no other, and if the United States
at any time abandon the said lands and shoals or appropriate it to
any other purposes than those herein mentioned, then this conveyance
to be void, and the said lands and shoal to revert and revest in the
Commonwealth of Virginia”; and

Whereas, for many years past, under a grant from the Secretary
of War of the United States, made pursuant to a joint resolution
of the Congress of the United States, adopted March third, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, and with the consent of the State of
Virginia, contained in an act of the general assembly thereof, ap-
proved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, a hotel
was maintained on the said United States government reservation,
at Fort Monroe, Virginia, or Old Point Comfort, Virginia, known as
Chamberlin hotel, by John F. Chamberlin, and his successors, until
the same was destroyed by fire, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty ; and

Whereas, the public feels a great need for a hotel on the site for-
merly occupied by said Chamberlin hotel, and to that end has pe-
titioned Congress of the United States for permission to erect on said
site another hotel and to obtain a lease-hold on so much of the land
of the said United States is necessary therefor, as shown by joint
resolution now pending before Congress of the United States; and

Whereas, the United States of America will grant no site or right
to any corporation or individual for the construction or operation
of a hotel upon any portion of said land until the consent of the
Commonwealth of Virginia has been obtained therefor, in order to
avoid any possibility of the land so granted for a hotel site reverting
to or revesting in the Commonwealth of Virginia; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
consent of the State of Virginia is hereby given to such individuals
or company, and their successors and assigns, as may be granted
a site and privilege by the Secretary of War of the United States
to construct, maintain and operate a hotel at Fort Monroe, Virginia,
for the term of fifty years, from the date of such grant, together
with the privilege of renewing the same, in case such renewal be
granted by the said Secretary of War, for a futher period of fifty
years, from the expiration thereof, hereby abridging and suspending
for the period of such grant the afore ‘said provision of the deed from
the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States by which such
site may, might or could revert or revest in the Commonwealth of
Virginia because of the same being used for other purposes than
fortification or national defense; provided, however, that all of the
property located on the site hereby granted shall be lable to such
taxes; State and local, as other property in the county of Elizabeth
City is liable to, during the term of the aforesaid grant or the ex-
tension thereof.