Chap. 131.—An ACT to amend and. re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the colony for feeble-minded colored persons, so as to
establish said colony as a separate institution. [S B. 82]

Approved March 12, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion ten hundred and ninety-two of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1092. The colony for feeble-minded colored persons,
heretofore a department of the Central State Hospital, is hereby es-
tablished as a separate State institution to be known as the Petersburg
State Colony.

It shall be located in the county of Prince George on land of the
Central State Hospital and all real and personal property owned
by the Central State Hospital and located in Prince George County,
is hereby transferred to and vested in the said Petersburg State
Colony. The Petersburg State Colony shall be supervised, managed
and controlled as are the other State hospitals and colony, by the
State Hospital Board as provided by law. The said board shall ap-
point a superintendent and such other officers as in its discretion are
necessary for the proper conduct of said colony and shall provide
suitable buildings with proper appurtenances and equipment for the
care, custody, control, teaching, training and employment of such fee-
ble-minded colored persons as may be committed under the law of
the State to said colony. The superintendent of the said colony shall,
as rapidly as proper accommodations for them can be provided, re-
ceive and care for such feeble-minded colored persons who are citizens
of Virginia as under the laws of the State may be admitted to the
said colony, provided that in committing persons to the said colony
and in receiving them therein, those indigent colored children who
would be most likely to receive benefit from colony care and training,
shall, as far as practicable, be first received and admitted.

Children of school age within the population of said colony shall be
enumerated in the school census of the district and county in which
the colony is located, as a part of the school population of the Com-
monwealth, and annually the colony shall be entitled to receive from
the State Board of Education an appropriation for the education. and
training of said children, based on said school population such as is
made to the Virginia Industrial School at Bon Air and like institutions.

In the event the said real estate in Prince George County here-
inbefore transferred to the Petersburg State Colony shall within ten:
years cease to be used as a colony for feeble-minded colored persons,
then the said real estate shall revert to the Central State Hospital.