Chap. 166.—An ACT to authorize the Virginia commission to the Jamestown
exposition to sell and convey certain property belonging to the State, to pay
certain debts, to make certain investments, and to pay any residue therefrom
into the public treasury.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the com-
mission to the Jamestown exposition, appointed by Governor Swansor
in the year nineteen hundred and six, composed of A. M. Bowman,
W. W. Baker, W. W. Sale, (. F. Day, N. B. Early, Robert W. Withers,
and, ex-officio, the governor, be, and the same is hereby, authorized
and empowered to sell, at public or private sale, for the best prices
obtainable by it, all the land, houses, furniture and fixtures, and other
property of whatsoever kind, now located and situate on the grounds
of the Jamestown exposition company, in Norfolk county. Any deed
or deeds or bills of sale necessary to convey any of said property shall
be executed in the name of the State of Virginia, and signed by all of
said commissioners, and any such deed or bill of sale shall pass all of
the title of Virginia in and to said property therein conveyed.

2. After the sale of all said property, and the collection of the pur-
chase price thereof, said commission is empowered and directed to pay
off and discharge any and all debts now or hereafter to become due
by it for any matter connected with Virginia’s participation in the
Jamestown exposition. Out of any remaining moneys in its hands, the
commission shall pay for transporting and installing the mineral and
timber exhibit donated to the State by the Virginia mineral and tim-
ber exhibit association, to and in such room or rooms in Richmond as
may have been provided by the State for that purpose, and the balance
of said funds shall be paid into the public treasury.

3. The commissioners shall be paid their actual expenses while en-
gaged in carrying out the provisions of this act, but they shall not be
paid any compensation therefor.