Chap. 189.—An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to erect a library building
and auditorium as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women
who served in the World war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate
as and for public streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land
15 feet in width lying on the southern side of the Capitol Square in the city of
Richmond, for the widening of Bank street. To allow the library board to
borrow money, issue bonds therefor and secure the same; and to allow the
State board of education, from time to time, to invest the cash in hand of the
literary fund in said bonds, approved March 25, 1920; and to provide for the
disposition or use of the lot, square or parcel of ‘land situated in the city of
Richmond, described in the said act, and bounded by Eleventh, Twelfth
Capitol and Broad streets. {S B 130

Approved March 14, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled anfact to erect a library building and auditorium as a memorial
to the soldiers, sailors, marines and women who served in the World
war, and to appropriate money therefor; to dedicate as and for public
streets and highways upon certain conditions a strip of land fifteen feet
in width lying on the southern. side of the Capitol Square in the city of
Richmond, for the widening of Bank street; to allow the library
board to;borrow money, issue bonds therefor and secure the same; and
to allow the State board of education, from time to time, to invest the
cash in hand of the literary fund in said bonds, approved March twenty-
fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. But such repeal shall not affect the dedication as and for public
streets and highways of the strip or parcel of land fifteen feet in width
formerly lying on the southern side of the Capitol Square in the city of
Richmond described in the said act of March twenty-fifth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, and now being used as a public street and highway.

3. If such commission as may be created by the general assembly
for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, marines
and women of Virginia who served in the late World war, choose as the
site for such memorial the square or parcel of land in the city of Rich-
mond bounded by Eleventh, Twelfth, Capitol and Broad streets, which
was conveyed by the said city to the library board pursuant to the said
act of March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and if the city
of Richmond should, by ordinance, consent unconditionally to the use
of such square for such purpose (authority to give such consent being
hereby conferred upon the city), then the title to said square shall im-
mediately, by operation of law, be transferred from the library board
to the Commonwealth of Virginia, but if such commission do not pro-
pose to the council of the city of Richmond the erection of the memorial
on the said square, but choose some other site in the capital city, to be
made available by the city of Richmond without cost to the Common-
wealth, the library board shall, within sixty days after the acceptance
by the commission of the other site, reconvey the said square uncondi-
tionally in fee simple to the city of Richmond, by proper deed, acknowl-
edged for record, and authority to accept the said conveyance is hereby
conferred upon the city of Richmond.