CHAPTER 33

An Act to amend and reenact § 57-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to glebe lands and funds, and authorizing certain counties to
expend portions thereof.

[H 150]

Approved February 17, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 57-3, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 57-3. The glebe lands and church property, or the proceeds thereof
held by the authorities of any county under the act of the twelfth of
January, eighteen hundred and two, or under any other act, which may not
have been applied to some particular object under a local statute passed
for the purpose, shall be appropriated to such object or objects, other than
for a religious purpose, as may be voted for in such county (at such time
and place as the circuit court may prescribe) by a majority of the persons
entitled to vote in the county for a delegate therefrom to the General
Assembly, and, if no such object be so voted for, shall remain vested in
such authorities and be appropriated by them for the benefit of the poor
of such county; provided that the counties of Essex and Lancaster may
use the “Glebe Fund’, together with other funds, for improvements to the
courthouse and related facilities.