Chap. 2.—An ACT to authorize the directors and managers of the Female
orphan asylum at Fredericksburg, Virginia, to transfer, convey and deliver
the real and personal property of that corporation to the Assembly’s home
and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia, so soon as the last named corpora-
tion is organized under its charter.

Approved December 16, 1898.

Whereas the general assembly is informed that the corporation
known as “the directors and managers of the Female orphan
arvlum,” at Fredericksburg, Virginia (whose charter was received
aud continued by the act of the general assembly entitled “an act
to revive aud re-enact the act to incorporate the Female orphan
asvlum of Fredericksburg,” approved February tenth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-six), hold and own a large orphan asylum build-
ing and grounds at Fredericksburg, and about nine thousand dollars
of invested funds; that said corporation was created and organized
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four for the purpose of
maintaining and educating destitute female orphans as provided in
its charter, and was supplied with means to accomplish that benevo-
lent work by annual subscriptions and gifts made to it regularly
from the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four until the period of
the late civil war, by the persons composing the congregation of the
Presbyterian church at Fredericksburg, and was thus enabled to
perform this benevolent duty; that, because of the straitened pecu-
niary means of said congregation, no subscriptions or gifts of money
(except as to insignificant amount) have been made to said corpora-
tion since said civil war, and said corporation has thereby been dis-
abled since that period to perform said benevolent work; that in
view of this entire inability which has continued since the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to the lack of any reasonable
prospect for obtaining the means needed to enable said corporation
to continue its work, the directors and managers of the corporation,
in order to enable an effective use to be made of said building and
funds for benevolent purposes closely approximating the benevolent
ends for which said charter provided, made a tender of said real and
personal property to “the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States,” commonly known as the southern
Presbyterian church, upon the following terms and conditions, viz.:
That said ecclesiastical body should agree to take under its fostering
care and aid that property, together with all such additional moneys
and property as might be contributed under the recommendation of
that body by the southern Presbyterian churches and others, and
that all the said property and money thus acquired should be held
and applied, by a corporation duly chartered, for the maintenance
and education in an institution to be located and operated at Fred-
ericksburg, Virginia, of the orphans of deceased Presbyterian minis-
ters and missionaries, and for the education of the children of Pres-
byterian missionaries who are laboring among the Indians and in
foreign lands; that said general assembly of the southern Presby-
terian church at its annual meeting held in May, eighteen hundred
and ninety-three, at Macon, Georgia, did agree to accept said tender
of said property upon the said terms and conditions, and did recom-
mend to all the churches of said southern Presbyterian denomina-
tions that they should contribute of their means to the permanent
endowment and effective operation of said benevolent institution ;
that, since the said action was taken by said body, a canvass has
been made in the churches occupying not over one-fifth of the terri-
tory of the southern Presbyterian denomination, and contributions
have been obtained for the said institution amounting to about
thirty-five thousand dollars, thereby making it reasonably certain
that not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be
contributed by churches of that denomination to endow said institu-
tion. And whereas a bill is now under consideration by the general
assembly of Virginia, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Assembly’s
home and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia,’ by the provisions of
which an institution is chartered with powers and duties adapted to
perform the benevolent work above defined, and it is necessary that
legal authority shall be given to the said corporation, ‘the directors
and managers of the Female orphan asylum,” at Fredericksburg, to
transfer and convey its said building and grounds and invested
funds to the said corporation, styled “the Assembly’s home and
school at Fredericksburg, Virginia,” so soon as the latter is duly in-
corporated and organized.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the cor-
poration known as “the directors and managers of the Female orphan
asylum,” at Fredericksburg, Virginia, be, and the same is hereby, au-
thorized and empowered to convey, transfer and deliver the building
and grounds at Fredericksburg and the invested funds of that cor-
poration unto the corporation styled ‘the Assembly’s home and
school at Fredericksburg, Virginia,” a charter for which is now being
considered by the general assembly, so soon as the charter for the
last named corporation is duly enacted and said corporation is duly
organized.

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