Chap. 300.—An ACT to authorize the Special Board of Directors of the South-
western State Hospital, at Marion, to convey certain real estate belonging to
said hospital to the Chamber of Commerce of Marion, Incorporated. [H B 488]

Approved March 26, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
special board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital, at
Marion, is hereby authorized and empowered to convey from time to
time to the Chamber of Commerce of Marion, Incorporated, by deed
or deeds with covenants of special warranty of title any part or parts
or all of certain land lying in Smyth county, Virginia, owned by the
State of Virginia for the use and benefit of said hospital, and
described as follows:

A tract of land containing about twenty-five acres, known as the
United States Spruce Lumber Company sawmill site, lying on Staley’s
creek and Hook’s branch and on State highway number eighty-eight
and secondary highway number six hundred and sixty-nine, just
south of Marion in Marion District, Smyth county, Virginia; being
the same land conveyed to Southwestern State Hospital by J. P.
Buchanan and wife by deed dated April eighth, nineteen hundred
and twenty, recorded in clerk’s office of Smyth county in deed book
forty-five, page five hundred and ninety-six.

Such conveyance or conveyances shall be made when so ordered
by said special board of directors, and shall be made to said Chamber
of Commerce of Marion, Incorporated, for the purpose of industrial
development, and shall be made for the consideration of not less than
two hundred and forty dollars per acre for all land so conveyed.

2. In the event the rights, powers and duties vested in and con-
ferred and imposed upon the special board of directors of the South-
western State Hospital, at Marion, by law shall be transferred to,
vested in, and conferred and imposed upon the State hospital board,
the power and authority hereby conferred upon the said special board
of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital shall be exercised
and performed by the State hospital board.