Chap. 82.—An ACT to provide, with certain conditions, a site for the erection
of a Confederate memorial institute on a portion of the land in the west-
ern section of the city of Richmond, now the property of the State, and
known as the Soldiers’ Home property.

Approved March 2, 1910.

Whereas, the Confederate Memorial association has in hand a
sum to be expended in the erection of a building to be known as the
Confederate memorial institute, in which there are to be preserved the
now priceless relics of Virginia and of those other States that formed
the late Confederacy; and

Whereas, it is the desire of all the States which have contributed to
the said fund that the said building should be located in Richmond, the
capital of that Confederacy, and resolutions authorizing and empower-
ing the Confederate memorial association to erect such building in this
city have been adopted by the properly constituted authorities, which
resolutions and desire on the part of the other States confer on Vir-
ena great honor, and deserve recognition and support at her hands;
an

Whereas, the Commonwealth of Virginia is seised and possessed
of about twenty-five acres of land in the western portion of the city of
Richmond, under and by virtue of her contract with R. E. Lee camp,
number one, Confederate veterans, as embodied in the act approved
March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being chapter six hun-
dred and twenty-five of the acts of the assembly, eighteen hundred and
ninety-one, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and of a deed from said
R. E. Lee camp, dated March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, and duly recorded in the clerk’s office of Henrico county,
but subject to the occupancy and control of the said R. K. Lee camp,
number one, Confederate veterans, until the third day of March, nineteen
hundred and fourteen; and

Whereas, the said twenty-five acres has long been the site of the home
for Confederate soldiers and sailors, and so identified and associated with
Confederate memories, and by reason of its location and environments
will constitute an especially suitable and desirable site for the said Con-
federate memorial institute; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the gov-
ernor of this Commonwealth shall, so soon as may be practicable after
the passage of this act, tender to the said Confederate memorial associa-
tion such portion of the said twenty-five acres of land in the city of Rich-
mond, known as the Soldiers’ Home property, as is hereinafter more
specifically set out, as and for a site for the said Confederate memorial
institute, to be by them so used and occupied under the condition here-
inaiter specified: provided, however, that no action shall be taken here-
under by the governor until] R. E. Lee camp, number one, Confederate
veterans, shall have first signified to him, by resolutions, the acquiescence
of that body in the purposes of this act, and their consent to its pro-
visions.

2. When the said R. E. Lee camp, number one, Confederate veterans,
shall have so signified their acquiescence and consent, if the said Con-
federate memorial association shall accept of the site for said Confederate
memorial institute, which it is the purpose and intent of this act to offer
them, under the terms and conditions hereinafter specified, then

3. The governor be, and he is hereby, authorized, for and on behalf
of the Commonwealth, to become party to a deed, providing the said R.
K. Lee camp, number one, Confederate veterans, shall join therein, and
the form of which shall be approved by the attorney-general, and attested
by the secretary of the Commonwealth, with the said Confederate
memorial association, which shall effect the following purposes:

(a) Grant and convey to the said Confederate memorial association,
and their successors, for the purpose of erecting said Confederate
memorial institute, and providing suitable grounds therefor, that portion
of said twenty-five acres of land which lies between Stuart avenue and
Kensington street, and between the boulevard and Sheppard street, or
so much thereof as the said association may specify, such portion to be
accurately described by its metes and bounds, and to be shown in a plat
so to be attached to said deed as a part thereof.

(b) Such deed shall provide that the right and title in and to the
said property shall remain in the said grantees and their successors, in
consideration of the erection by them of the said building thereon, free
from the use or contro] of the Commonwealth, or R. E. Lee camp, num-
ber one, Confederate veterans, so long as they, the said grantees and their
successors, shall maintain the said Confederate memorial institute
thereon for the objects and purposes as now set forth in their charter of
incorporation. }

(c) The said deed shall provide that upon the failure of the grantees,
or their successors, to maintain said building for the purposes and
objects for which the said Confederate memorial association was incor-
porated, then the said property shall revert to the Commonwealth in
fee simple, together with all improvements thereon, with the right to
the said Commonwealth to re-enter and take possession.

(d) That in the event the fee simple title to the said property should
revert to the State under the provisions of clause (c) of this act, the
contents of said building, other than usual house fixtures, shall not
become the property of the State, but the title and right of possession
thereto shall remain in those who may properly establish their claims;
but the Commonwealth shall not in any event be responsible for any
injury or damage thercto or loss thereof.