CHAP. 98.—An ACT to amend section 3 of an act approved March 38, 1892,
entitled “An act making an annual appropriation to the Confederate
soldiers’ home, and in consideration therefor accepting a conveyance
from R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, of the property
owned by it and now used for said home, so as to extend the time when
the possession and control of the property conveyed in the deed from
said R. E. Lee camp No. 1, Confederate veterans, to the Commonwealth
of Virginia, duted March 24, 1892, shall pass from the grantor to the
grantee in said deed. :

Approved March 7, 1912.

Whereas, at the time of the passage of the said act of March
three, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, it was agreed that at the
expiration of twenty-two years from that date the possession and
control of the property conveyed to the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia in pursuance of said act should pass from the grantor to
the grantee;

And whereas, it is now deemed necessary and proper, in con-
sequence of the demands of Confederate soldiers and sailors for
support in and admission to said home, to extend the time for
vesting the possession and control of said property from the
grantor to the grantee; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of an act approved March three, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, entitled “fan act making an annual appropria-
tion to the Confederate soldiers’ home, and in consideration
therefor accepting a conveyance from R. E. Lee camp numher
one, Confederate veterans, of the property owned by it and now
used for said home,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§3. In consideration of the annual appropriation contained
in the preceding section, and before any money is received under
this act, it shall be the duty of said camp to execute, deliver and
have recorded, a deed, to be approved by the attorney-general,
conveying the twenty-five (25) acres of ground now owned by it
and used as a soldiers’ home, and the improvements now or
hereafter to be erected thereon, to the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia, which said deed shall contain a condition that it shall not
divest the possession and control of said property from the gran-
tor (unless said grantor consents to surrender such possession
and control before that time, which it may do), as long as said
property is used for the purposes for which it is now used, and
which, it is agreed will be thirty (30) years from March three,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two (the date of said act); and a
further condition that said camp may erect, or allow to be
erected, on said property, in such locality or locations as may be
agreed on between it and the governor, any statue or statues to
the memory of fallen Confederates.

2. This act shall not repeal or affect any other provisions of
the said act approved March three, eighteen hundred and ninety-
two, nor the provisions of any act or acts making appropriations
to the said soldiers’ home since the passage of that act. Pro-
vided, that nothing in this act contained shall be construed as
affecting in any way that portion of the said twenty-five acres of
ground which have been conveyed to the Confederate memorial
institute in pursuance of the act of the general assembly ap-
proved March two, nineteen hundred and ten.