Chap. 112.—An ACT to give authority to the Gloucester charity school to
sell real estate in Gloucester county. (H. B. 158.)

Approved March 16, 1914.

Whereas, the general assembly, in the year eighteen hundred
and fourteen, passed an act incorporating the Gloucester charity
school, the object of which was to hold real and personal estate for
certain purposes therein mentioned; and whereas, the said Glou-
cester charity school now holds and controls a tract of real estate,
known as the poorhouse tract of land; and whereas, the said land
cannot be used advantageously in carrying out the purposes origi-
nally intended; and whereas, doubt exists whether said Gloucester
charity school has the authority to sell said real estate without the
intervention of the general assembly; and whereas, it is right and
proper to have the title to said land undisputed when a sale is
made, and the surest and best mode is to confer the authority on the
Gloucester charity school, whenever deemed expedient, to call to
its aid, in making a sale, the circuit court of the county of Glou-
cester; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
authority is hereby given the Gloucester charity school, when a
sale is desired of the poorhouse tract of land, to file a petition be-
fore the circuit court of Gloucester, asking for a sale of said land;
the petition for sale shall not be filed until and after notice has
been given by public advertisement at five or more public places
in Gloucester county, stating that said petition will be filed, giving
the time ard place of filing, for thirty days before the filing of
the same. When the petiticn is filed, any two or more tax payers
in Gloucester shall have the right to come into the court and enter
themselves as parties defendants, and resist the petition; provided,
the tax payers aforesaid give bond and security to pay costs for
resisting said petition. The circuit court of Gloucester shall, after
hearing the petition, with answers and depositions, and so forth,
decide whether the land shall be sold or not; if the court shall
decree a sale, then the order of the court shall state the minimum
price to be taken for said land, and all other points guarded and
protected by said court, as in other judicial sales, and direct how
the proceeds of sale shall be disposed of.

2. The court, in passing the title, shall require the president of
the Gloucester charity school, along with the commissioner who
make the sale, to unite in a deed conveying the said land.