Chap. 195.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled: An
act to establish an epileptic colony on land of the Western State Hospital
in Amherst county, approved February 20, 1906.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section

one of an act entitled “an act to establish an epileptic colony on land
of the Western State hospital, in Amherst county,” approved February
twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
_ §1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
special board of directors of the Western State hospital, under the
supervision and control of the general board of directors of the State
hospital for the insane, be, and they are hereby, authorized and di-
dected to erect on the tract of land in Amherst county, opposite the
city of Lynchburg, devised to the said Western State hospital by the
will of Sidney R. Murkland, deceased, out of consideration for the
kindly and humane treatment of his son at said hospital, all suitable
buildings and appurtenances for the establishment of a colony for the
reception, care, treatment, training, and employment of three hundred
epileptic patients: provided, however, that if in the judgment of the
said general board of directors of the State hospitals, it appear proper
the said special board of directors of the Western State hospital may
sell and convey the whole or any part of the said Murkland tract of
land and with the proceeds of such sale, supplemented with other funds
appropriated for said colony, so far as may be necessary, may purchase
adjoining, additional or other land in Amherst county for the purposes
of said colony.