Chap. 122.—An ACT to ratify and confirm a contract for the sale of a let
entered into between the special board of directors of the Southwestern
State Hospital and D. Hutton.

Approved March 10, 1910.

Whereas, the special board of directors of the Southwestern State
Hospital, at a meeting held on the fourteenth day of September, nine-
teen hundred and nine, entered into a contract with D. Hutton, selling
to the said Hutton a small lot of land belonging to the said Southwestern
State Hospital lying between Water street and the Marion and Rye
Valley Railway, in the town of Marion, Virginia, containing about one
half of an acre, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, subject to the
ratification of the general assembly of Virginia; and

Whereas, the said special board of directors recommend that the said
contract be ratified, believing it to be a beneficial sale; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the specia!
board of directors of the Southwestern State Hospital is hereby author-
ized and empowered to convey to D. Hutton the strip of land containing
about one-half of an acre lying between Water street and the Marion and
Rye Valley Railway, in the town of Marion, Virginia, upon the payment
by the said Hutton to the said special board of directors the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars.