CHAP. 265.—An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors
of Charlotte county to sell and convey the poor-house farm, belonging
to the ssid county, or any part thereof, and to employ land agents to
make sale of the said farm. (H. B. 419.)

Approved March 16, 1916. |

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte is hereby
authorized and empowered to sell, either publicly or privately,
the poor-house farm, or any part thereof, belonging to the said
county, for cash or upon terms of credit, as the said board of
supervisors may determine and prescribe. If the sale be for
part cash and a part upon credit, the said board of supervisors
shall take from the purchaser bonds carrying interest from the
date of sale for the deferred payments, payable to the said board
of supervisors, and to be secured in such manner as the said
board of supervisors may determine and prescribe.
2. The said board of supervisors shall have the power and
is hereby authorized to employ one or more land agents to make
sale of the said poor-house farm, or any part thereof, upon such
terms as the said board of supervisors may prescribe; but, in
no event, shall the board of supervisors pay said land agents any
sum of money or any commissions until the land agent shall
nave made sale of the poor-house farm, and the said sale shall
have been confirmed by the circuit court of Charlotte county, or
the judge thereof in vacation, as hereinafter provided.

3. All sales made by the board of supervisors, or by any
land agent employed by the said board of supervisors, shall,
with a statement of the amount of commissions the board has
agreed should be paid to the agent making the sale, if the sale
be made by the agent, be reported by ‘the said board of super-
visors to the circuit court of Charlotte for its approval or con-
firmation. The said circuit court, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, may approve or confirm any sale so made, or may refuse
to approve or confirm any sale so made and so reported to the
said court. Should the said circuit court, or the judge thereof
in vacation, approve and confirm any sale made by the board of
supervisors of said county or any land agent, the said circuit
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall direct the com-
mission to be paid to the agent making the sale, if the sale be
made by an agent. The proceeds of any sale of the said poor-
house farm or any part thereof shall be paid to the county treas-
urer of said county of Charlotte, and kept by said treasurer as
a part of the general county fund, to be paid out as directed by
the said board of supervisors, and any part thereof may be used
by the said board of supervisors in erecting a new jail in the
said county, or for such other use of the said county of Charlotte
as the said board of supervisors of said county may direct.

4. The said board of supervisors of Charlotte county shall,
by proper deed, with special warranty, convey to the purchaser
the said poor-house farm or any part thereof, when the said
purchaser or purchasers shall have paid all of the purchase
money, or shall have secured the payment of the deferred pay:
ments in such manner as the said board of supervisors may
prescribe and direct.

5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with or inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.

6. The board of supervisors of the said county of Charlott
believing it to be to the best interest of the said county of Char.
lotte to sell the said poor-house farm, either privately or pub-
licly, at once, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shal
be in force from its passage.