CHAP. 625.—An ACT making an annual ApPropreHon to the
Confederate soldiers’ home, and in consideration therefor
accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee camp, No 1, Confede-
rate reterans, of the property owned by it and now used for
said home.

Approved March 8, 1892.

Whereas the annual appropriation now made by the
state to the soldiers’ home is entirely inadequate for the
support and maintenance of the present inmates therein,
and those Confederate soldiers and sailors who desire and
deserve to be cared for there by the state; and whereas R.
E. Lee camp, No. 1, Confederate veterans, is the owner of
the twenty-five acres of ground and buildings thereon now
used for said home, which property said camp is willing
and desirous of granting to the state when it ceases to be
used for its present purposes in consideration of an ample
annual appropriation by the state for the support of those
Confederate soldiers and sailors who are now or may here-
after properly become inmates of said home; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
“hat a sum not exceeding thirty thousand ($30,000) dol-
ars, be, and the same is hereby, annually appropriated
ut of the treasury of the state for the support and main-
enance of said home. .

2. That the treasurer of the board of visitors of said
oldiers’ home shall quarterly report to the auditor of
yublic accounts the number of inmates in said home, and
8 long as the number of said inmates exceed fifty (50)
he auditor shall issue his warrant on the treasurer of the
state in favor of the treasurer of said board for a sum
»qual to one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars per capita
oer annum of said inmates, and when the number of said
inmates is reduced to fifty (50) or less, then the auditor’s
warrant shall be for a sum equal to two hundred ($200) dol-
[ars per capita per annum: provided that the auditor’s war-
rant for thie purpose shall not exceed the sum of thirty
thousand ($30,000) dollars in any one year.

3. In consideration of the annual appropriation con-
tained in the preceding section, and before any money is
received under this act, it shall be the duty of said camp
to execute, deliver and have recorded a deed, to be approved
by the attorney-general, conveying the twenty-five acres of
ground now used by it, and used as a soldiers’ home, and
the improvements now or hereafter to be erected thereon,
to the commonwealth of Virginia, which said deed shall
contain a condition that it shall not divest the possession
and control of said property from the grantor (unless said
grantor consents to surrender such possession and control
before that time which it may do) as long as said property
is used for the purposes for which it is now used and which
it is agreed will be twenty-two years from the passage of
this act, and a further condition that said camp may erect
or allow to be erected on said property in such locality or
locations as may be agreed on between it and the governor,
any statue or statues to the memory of fallen Confederates.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall
be deemed acontract between the commonwealth and said
camp, that in consideration of the conveyance of the prop-
erty as aforesaid, and as a condition that the commonwealth
will for the whole period contemplated by this act make
the annual appropriation therein specified: provided that
should the title to the premises herein described as the
soldiers’ home prove defective, the provisions of this act
shall impose no obligations on this commonwealth to make
any appropriation to R. E. Lee camp, number one, Confed-
erate veterane, except that the appropriations made or to
be made for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-two
and eighteen hundred and ninety-three shall in any event
be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth.