Chap. 170.—An ACT to provide unon the conveyance by the Virginia Home
and Industrial School for Girls, of its property, real and personal, lo-
cated in the county of Chesterfield, to the State of Virginia, that the
State will assume control, operation and management of the said home
in accordance with the charter of the said corporation, and to assume
any indebtedness of the said home existing on the 1st day of March,
1914, not in excess of $1.500.00. (H. B. 252.)

Approved March 21, 1914.

Whereas, the Virginia home and industrial school for girls, a
corporation created under the laws of the State of Virginia, having
for its object the custody, care and training of vicious and incor-
rigible white girls between the ages of eight and eighteen years,
did in the year nineteen hundred and ten establish its home in the
county of Chesterfield, Virginia, and receive into its custody, care
and training such white girls between the ages aforesaid, and has
continued to operate said home; and, °

Whereas, the general assembly of Virginia, at its sessions of
nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and twelve, did
make appropriations for the maintenance of said home at a per
diem allowance of fifty cents for each inmate confined therein, and
at its session of nineteen hundred and twelve also provided that.
after the per diem allowance aforesaid, any balance remaining of
the total appropriation of the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars
fcr the years nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred
and thirteen might be expended for the improvement of the
property of the said Virginia home and industrial school for girls;
and in pursuance of said provision there has been erected on said
property an additional building and a system installed to supply
the home with an adequate water supply at an approximate cost
cf thirteen thousand dollars; and,

Whereas, it is recognized that the maintenance of a home for
the purposes set forth in the charter of the said organization is
necessary to prevent the commitment of vicious and incorrigible
white girls to the jails and prisons of the Commonwealth; and,

Whereas, it is deemed advisable that such an institution should
be under State control, operation and management, and the said
Virginia home and industrial school for girls having expressed a
willingness to convey to the State of Virginia all its property,
consisting of a tract of land in the county of Chesterfield, Virginia,
containing two hundred and six acres, with the improvements
thereon; and conveyed to it by deed duly recorded, and its personal
property located thereon, consisting of stock, farming implements,
vehicles, household and kitchen furniture, and so forth, if the State
of Virginia shall take said home and conduct the same in accord-
ance with the purposes of the charter of said Virginia home and
industrial school for girls, and to assume any indebtedness incurred
by it and existing on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and
fourteen, in excess of said appropriation of twenty-four thousand
dollars and not to exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
if upon an examination of the title of the real estate of the said
home the same shall be approved by the attorney general of Vir-
ginia, and upon the conveyance by the said Virginia home and
industrial school for girls by deed duly executed and acknowledged
for record, and to be approved by the attorney general, of its
property, real and personal, aforesaid, located as aforesaid, to the
Commonwealth of Virginia; that the State of Virginia will take
possession and control of the said home and conduct the same for
the purposes set forth in the charter of said corporation, and
thereafter operate and maintain the same as a separate State
institution, or in connection with some other State institution, or
elsewhere.

2. That any indebtedness incurred by the said home and
existing on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and fourteen,
in excess of said appropriation of twenty-four thousand dollars,
and not to exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, shall be
assumed and paid by the State of Virginia.

3. That upon the State assuming control of the said home, it
shall be governed by a board of directors of not less than five
members, to be appointed by the governor of the State and con-
firmed by the senate—and whose term of office shall conform to
the terms of directors of State hospitals.

4. Nothing in this act or in the acceptance of the said deed by
the State shall be construed to prevent the sale of said ‘property
and change of the location of the home, provided the State shall
maintain said home until the sale of said property, and that the

roceeds of the sale of said property shall be reinvested in a home
or the purposes set forth in the charter of the said Virginia home
and industrial school for girls.

5. That the governor of Virginia and the board of directors be,
and they are hereby, authorized to make said sale and the location
of the home elsewhere if in their judgment the same shall be
deemed advisable. Should the governor and board of directors
jn their judgment deem it advisable to locate said home on the
property of some other State institution, then the same shall
thereafter be governed by the board of officers of such institution.