Chap. 65.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1092 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the establishment of the Petersburg State
Colony. [S B 72]

Approved February 22, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section one thousand and ninety-two of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

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

It shall be located on that certain tract of land, lying partly in
Prince George County and partly in Dinwiddie County, which was
heretofore conveyed unto the Central State Hospital by several
separate conveyances of contiguous tracts from the several former
owners thereof, being separate and distinct from that tract of land
lying wholly within the county of Dinwiddie whereon the principal
buildings and properties of the Central State Hospital are situate.
All of the said tract of land which lies partly in each of the two said
counties, together with all of the appurtenances thereto belonging
and the chattels thereon situate and incident to the use thereof, 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 appoint 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 feeble-
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,
receive 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
Commonwealth, 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 hereinbefore 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.