CHAP. 113.—An ACT for the appointment of assessors for the cities
of Roanoke and Manchester.

Approved January 30, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be the duty of the judges of the corporation
courts for the cities of Roanoke and Manchester, on or
before the first day of February, eighteen hundred and
ninety, to appoint three proper persons from different sec-
tions of said cities to assess the value of all lands and
lots, together with the improvements thereon, in said cities,
said persons appointed to have the same qualifications
and to be appointed on same conditions as prescribed by
law for the appointment of assessors.

_ 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHapP. 114.—An ACT to validate and confirm a sale of a portion of
its real estate made by the Virginia state agricultural and me-
chanical society to the Richmond basket and wooden-ware
manufacturing company.

Approved Janunry 30, 1890.

Whereas the executive committee of the Virginia state
agricultural and mechanical society, for the purpose of
raising money to erect buildings for the use and purposes
of said society on the remainder of its real estate, hereto-
fore, with the approval and ratification of the stock-
holders of said corporation, in a meeting called for the pur-
pose, after thirty days’ notice in the Richmond Dispatch,
a daily newspaper published in the city of Richmond,
sold to the “Richmond basket and wooden-ware manu-
facturing company,” for the sum of three thousand seven
hundred and sixty-two dollars, three and seven hundred
and sixty-two thousandths acres of the real estate of the
said Virginia state agricultural and mechanical society,
bounded as described in a deed from the last named cor-
poration to the said ‘the Richmond basket and wooden-
ware manufacturing company,” dated August the twenty-
second, one thousand eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
and duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court
of Henrico county; and whereas doubts have arisen as to
the power of the said Virginia state agricultural and me-
chanical society to make the sale and conveyance afore-
said for the purposes aforesaid; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the hereinbefore recited sale and conveyance by the
Virginia state agricultural and mechanical society to the
“Richmond basket and wooden-ware manufacturing com-
pany,” of that part of its real estate set out and described
in the aforesaid deed of August twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, vali-
dated and confirmed, and the executive committee of the
said Virginia state agricultural and mechanical society
are hereby authorized and empowered to use and expend
the proceeds arising from said sale in the payment of any
debt or liability created or incurred in or about the erec-
tion of any buildings or other improvements upon the
rest and residue of the real estate of said last named cor-
poration, and the said the Richmond basket and wooden-
ware manufacturing company shall not be held responsi-
ble for the application or use of the same.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHapP. 115.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter
106 of the acts of 1888 entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia
state agricultural and mechanical society.

Approved January 30, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section eight of chapter one hundred and six of the
acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight entitled an act
to incorporate the Virginia state agricultural and mechan-
ical society, approved February the eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§8. That said body corporate may sell and convey the real
estate of the corporation, or any part thereof, at any time
and from time to time as it may deem it to the interest of
the said corporation so to do, subject, however, to the rati-
fication of such sale or sales by the stockholders in a
meeting called for the purpose, after thirty days’ notice in
one or more of the daily newspapers published in the city
of Richmond. The proceeds derived from such sales may
be reinvested in other real estate in or near the city of
Richmond, and in the erection of buildings and other im-
provements thereon for the same uses and purposes for
which the said real estate is now held by said corporation,
or said proceeds may be used and expended in the pay-
ment of debts and liabilities already created or hereafter
incurred in and about the prosecution of the business, uses
and purposes of said corporation as its necessities or inte-
rests may require.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.