Chap. 23.—An Act to approve the grants and conveyance by the Prison
Association of Virginia of a lot of land with improvements thereon,
located in the city of Richmond and the State of Virginia, which said
lot of land was not enumerated as a part of the property of the said
association in an act approved February 21, 1920, and to declare the
grant and conveyance by the said association to the Commonwealth of
all its property, wherever located, valid in all respects. [fH B 11]

Approved March 20, 1923.

Whereas, by an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen
hundred and twenty, the Prison Association of Virginia, created
and incorporated under the laws of the State of Virginia, in
pursuance of the provisions of the said act, did by deed dated
June ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty, which said deed is
recorded in the clerk’s office of the Henrico circuit court, June
eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty, deed book two hundred
and fifteen B, page sixty-nine, grant and convey to the Common-
wealth of Virginia, with general warranty, all its property, real
and personal, as required under the said act, and among the
pieces of property described therein was “All that lot of land
with improvements thereon, situated in the city of Richmond,
Virginia, on the north side of Ashland street, and bounded as
follows: Commencing at a point two hundred and forty (240)
feet east of the intersection of Carter and Ashland streets, and
thence running in an easterly direction along the north line of
Ashland street thirty feet (80'); thence extending back from
said front, between parallel lines, ninety feet (90') to an alley
in the rear fourteen feet (14’) wide; being the same property
devised to the Prison Association of Virginia, a corporation
duly chartered, organized and doing business under the laws of
the State of Virginia, by Mistress Adeline P. Russell, by will
probated February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and
recorded in will book number eight, page fifty-seven, Richmond
chancery court clerk’s office”; and,

Whereas, under the provisions of the said act of February
twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, in reciting the prop-
erty of the Prison Association of Virginia, the said lot of land
was not enumerated, and a question has been raised as to the
title of the Commonwealth to the said lot of land, due to the
failure to describe the same in the said act; and, >

Whereas, the title of the said act was restricted to property
located in the county of Henrico; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said deed of the said Prison Association of Virginia to the
Commonwealth of Virginia be in all respects accepted and ap-
proved and declared to be valid, and that the said lot of land on
Ashland street. thereby conveyed shall be held on the same
terms and conditions and with the same provisions as the tract
of land in Henrico county and the tract of land in the county
of Powhatan, particularly mentioned in the said act, are now
held, and that the conveyance of the said lot of land on Ashland
street and all the residue of the property of such association,
wherever located, to the Commonwealth of Virginia, be ac-
cepted and approved and declared to be valid.

2. An emergency is declared to exist for the immediate
effect of this act, and this act shall be in force from its passage.