Chap. 265.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section two of Chapter
eighty of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, in Relation to Funds
‘from Gifts, Grants, Devises and Bequests.

Approved March 28, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section two
of chapter eighty of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen
hundred and sixty) in relation to funds from gifts, grants, de-
vises and bequests, be amended and re-enacted so as to read

as follows:

§ 2., Every gift, grant, devise or bequest, which since the
second day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-nine, has been, or at any time hereafter shall be,
made for literary purposes, or for the education of white per-
sons within this state (other than for the use of a theological
seminary), and every gift, grant, devise or bequest, which since
the tenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-five, has been, or at any time hereafter shall be,
made for literary purposes or for the education of colored
persons within this state (other than for the use of a theologi-
cal seminary), whether made in either case to a body corporate
or unincorporated, or to a natural person, shall be as valid as
if made to or for the benefit of a certain natural person, ex-
cept such devises or bequests, if any, as have failed or become
void by virtue of the seventh section of the act of assembly
passed on the said second of April, eighteen hundred and
thirty nine, entitled an act concerning deyises made to schools,
academies and colleges: provided, that the re-enactment of this
clause shall not be construed to interfere with or affect rights
heretofore vested or which may be involved in any suit now
pending in the courts of this commonwealth.

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

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