Chap. 405.—An ACT to authorize and empower the attorney general to convey,
as and when the same may be accepted, to the United States of America, a
certain bar in Hampton Roads, known as Hampton bar, for national park
purposes. [H B 259]

Approved March 23, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
attorney general of Virginia be, and he is hereby authorized and em-
powered to convey to the United States of America, as and when the
same shall be accepted and provision has been made by the United
States for the establishment of a park hereinafter provided, for the
purpose of establishing a memorial park to be known as Merrimack-
Monitor park, such part of about three hundred acres of the bed o1
bottom of Hampton Roads on a shoal in said Hampton Roads knowr
as Hampton bar and beginning at the easterly end of said bar and ex-
tending in a westerly direction for a distance of not less than one anc
one-half miles and not more than two miles in length and having <
width of not less than three hundred yards nor more than three hun.
dred and fifty yards, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the
purpose.

Such conveyance shall be subject to such reasonable conditions a:
may be agreed upon between the said United States of America anc
the State of Virginia, acting by and through the State conservatior
and development commission in reference to the planting of trees anc
shrubbery and the erection of fences, buildings and other structure
thereon. And such conveyance shall be subject, also, to the right o
the State of Virginia to erect in such park a monument, beacon o
otherwise, representing George Washington, as well as the right t
erect monuments to Franklin Buchanan, commanding officer of th
Merrimack and to John Lorimer Worden, commanding officer of th
Monitor.