Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1420, chapter 65, of the
Code of Virginia, in reference to the validity of gifts, devices, et cetera,
for purposes of education. (S. B. 174.)

Approved March 24, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fourteen hundred and twenty, chapter sixty-five, of the Code
of Virginia be amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1420. Every gift, grant, devise or bequest which, since the
second day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine, has been, or at any time hereafter shall be, made for liter-
ary purposes, or for the education of white persons within this State.
and every gift, grant, devise, or bequest which, since the tenth of
April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five has
been, or at any time hereafter shall be, made for literary purposes,
cr for the education of colored persons within this State, and every
gift, grant, devise or bequest hereafter made for charitable purposes.
whether made in any case to a body corporate or unincorporated, or
to a natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or for the benefit
cf a certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if any
as have failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the
act of assembly passed on the said second of April, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-nine, entitled an act concerning devises made to
schools, academies, and colleges. Nothing in this section shall be
<o construed as to give validity to any devise or bequest to or for
the use of any unincorporated theological seminary.