Chap. 75.—An ACT to provide for the conveyance by the Industrial Home
School for Wayward Colored Girls of its property, real and personal to
the Commonwealth of Virginia; that the Commonwealth will assume con-
trol, operation and management of the same. (S B 27

Approved February 21, 1920.

Whereas, it is expedient that the Industrial Home School for Way-
ward Colored Girls, a corporation created and existing under the
laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, should convey to the Com-
monwealth of Virginia all its property, real and personal, located at
Peake in Hanover county, and for the Commonwealth thereafter to
assume control and operation of the same; and,

Whereas, the said Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored
Girls will probably be desirous of making the conveyance aforesaid;
now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if,
upon examination of the title of the real estate of the said school, the
said title shall be approved by the attorney-general of Virginia, and
upon conveyance by the said Industrial Home School for Wayward
Colored Girls by deed duly executed and acknowledged for record,
and approved by the attorney-general, of its property, real and per-
sonal, located at Peake, Hanover county, to the Commonwealth of
Virginia, the Commonwealth will take possession and control of the
said school and conduct the same.

2. Upon the Commonwealth’s assuming control of the property
of the said Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls, the
name of the institution shall be “Virginia Industrial School for Colored
Girls.” The said Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls shall,
after the conveyance hereinbefore mentioned, be governed by a board
of directors of not less than five nor more than nine members, to be
appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
The terms of office of the members of the board shall conform, as
near as may be, to the terms of directors of State hospitals.

3. Nothing in this act or in the acceptance of the said deed by
the Commonwealth shall be construed to prevent the sale of said prop-
erty and change the location of the school; provided, the Common-
wealth shall maintain the said school until the sale of said property,
and that the proceeds of the sale of said property shall be reinvested
ina school of like character. Furthermore, the governor of Virginia
and the board of directors are hereby authorized to make said sale
and to locate the said school elsewhere if, in their judgment, the same
shall be deemed advisable.

4. The conveyance of the property of the said Industrial Home
School for Wayward. Colored Girls to the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia, and its change of names, as aforesaid, upon such conveyance,
shall not work a release or discharge of any minor lawfully committed
to the said Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls and
“detained therein, but all commitments made before the date of said
conveyance shall remain as valid as if the conveyance had not been
made. After said conveyance, colored girls may be committed to the
Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls for the same reasons and
with the same effect as they may now be committed to the Industrial
Home School for Wayward Colored Girls.

5. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.