CHaP. 24.—JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor,
on behalf of the state, to accept the gift of the Lee monument.

Approved December 19, 1889.

Resolved by the senate (the house of delegates con-
curring), Whereas it has been brought to the notice of
the general assembly that the Lee monument association
proposes, as the most graceful and appropriate disposition
of the equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee, about
being completed in the city of Paris, and of the monu-
ment of which it is to form a part, to present the same to
the commonwealth; and whereas this patriotic purpose
is highly appreciated and approved by the general as-
sembly.

1. Be it therefore resolved by the general assembly ot
Virginia, That the governor be, and he is hereby author-
ized and requested, in the name and in behalf of the
commonwealth, to accept, at the hands of the Lee monu-
ment association, the gift of the monument or equestrian
statue of General Robert E. Lee, including the pedestal
and circle of ground upon which said statue is to he
erected, and to execute any appropriate conveyance of the
same, in token of such acceptance, and of the guarantee
of the state that it will hold said statue and pedestal and
ground perpetually sacred to the monumental purpose to
which they have been devoted.